culture

All The Rage: 5 Retro Christmas Ideas for Teenagers

Thumbnail image for All The Rage: 5 Retro Christmas Ideas for Teenagers

Pop culture; it goes in one massive circle right? If a teenager had worn a pair of tight-fitted jeans two years ago they would have been condemned on the spot – but now it’s cool. Just like they were in the 70′s.

Read the full article →

Week in Review: Articles Worth Reading

Thumbnail image for Week in Review: Articles Worth Reading

Another week seems to have gone by very quickly. It feels like I am still working through material from last week – that’s probably because I am still working through last week’s material. There were some fresh new articles on bullying this week, along with interesting research on digital and health issues. Of course many [...]

Read the full article →

Week In Review: Articles Worth Reading

Thumbnail image for Week In Review: Articles Worth Reading

As I mentioned last week, this weekly post is about sharing some of the stuff I have come across in the last 7days  that I figure would be helpful to others. Below are some of the articles and posts from this week that I found stimulating, useful, interesting, or in some cases just good fun [...]

Read the full article →

Week In Review: Articles Worth Reading

Thumbnail image for Week In Review: Articles Worth Reading

In our information saturated world there is no shortage of quality information. But as most of you know finding the quality amongst the trash is the tricky bit. Each week in in the process of researching and looking for information, I get to read loads of good stuff, which is really helpful, but doesn’t suit [...]

Read the full article →

5 Ways to Connect With Your Teens

Thumbnail image for 5 Ways to Connect With Your Teens

Jennifer Wagner has been working with the Internet and Millennials for years, including running computer schools for kids. Along with publishing her own successful blog Jennifer also writes for the Examiner’s NY Parenting Teens, Momtourage and is part of the Yahoo Motherboard.  Jennifer has generously agreed to write a guest post for Understanding Teenagers about [...]

Read the full article →

The Pornification of Generation Z

Are today’s teenagers so immersed in a culture where porn defines the contours of mainstream pop culture, that they are not even aware why adults would be concerned? Teenagers have always been, and will always be interested in sex. It is a natural curiosity associated with growing up.  I am sure all of us have [...]

Read the full article →

7 Deadly Sins of Today’s Youth

When you think of the current generation of teenagers, what do you imagine they value? For some time we have known that Gen Y were more conservative than Xers and definitely more conservative than the Baby Boomers. The conservative trend seems to be continuing and accelerating with the emerging generation. Recent research conducted in Europe [...]

Read the full article →

Parents & Teenagers: 5 Must Have Conversations (ii)

This is the second part of two part post on conversations parents absolutely must have with their teenagers, preferably  before the teen years. I want to acknowledge before continuing that talking about these topics will happen more effectively as a series of short conversations over time rather than one long conversation.  These short conversations are [...]

Read the full article →

Energy Drinks and Teenagers: Do You Understand the Risks?

I am sure many of us have been there before.  You are running out of time, you have long since passed the point of being tired, and you still have a lot more to do! Whether it was for study, work, or getting through myriad of personal crises that always seem to happen simultaneously, the [...]

Read the full article →

Teenage Spirituality: Does It Matter?

What do today’s teenagers think about the big questions of life? In a consumer society like ours, is there a danger teens consider life to be about the acquisition of stuff?  Are they too busy rushing from one experience to the next chasing achievement or thrills?  Or are they seeking some meaning beyond the material [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries