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To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
Scientists fear Earth may have gone past the point of no return with climate change
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
Patient in Guinea is killed by disease that causes 88% of sufferers to bleed to death
...it is considered a breach for a mother to throw her daughter a shower...
Why climate change activists have failed to score public support
Girls, LGBQ+ teens at higher risk for depression
Girls, LGBQ+ teens at higher risk for depression
Man charged with 96 offences related to child sexual assault
Christian school that embraced the LGBTQ community is forced to close its doors
A 5-Year-Old Was Sexually Assaulted and Forced to Sit With Her Attacker
Woman who raped 13-year-old boy, got pregnant
Bill to remove transgender children from parents
Jeff Thomas 'involved in romantic relationship with Peter Thiel'
Risk of sleep problems in gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth
Girl, 12, shot father before killing herself in murder pact with friend
Man strangles coyote after animal attacks his child during family walk
Mountain lion attacks and injures child in Orange County wilderness park
Woman Arrested for Stabbing Dog
Pygmy elephant gores handler to death
Man Charged in Dog Mauling Death of 7-Year-Old Girl
Toddler's Parents Do Nothing As He Hits Pit Bull With A Water Bottle
Sint Maarten approves plan to destroy entire population of vervet monkeys
Polar bear kills woman and boy
Parents Arrested After Attempting To Grab Their Children
District Attorney is stabbed multiple times by his own DAUGHTER
12-Year-Girl Who Shot Dad and Pets Has Died
Celebrities Who Were Totally Honest About Why They Chose a Child-Free Life
Celebrities Who Were Totally Honest
Couple accused of branding, strangling, shooting pellet gun at 5 nieces and nephews
Mother beaten by daughter's bullies
Woman Supported for Kicking Nieces and Nephews Out
Woman Not Allowing 'Bully' Niece on Vacation
Teen Stabbed Her Newborn Baby to Death
Meet The Parents That Wish They Were Child-Free
High school sees record spike in failing grades
High school sees record spike in failing grades
People reveal why they've turned their backs on their own PARENTS
Christians asks court to allow conversion therapy on kids
6 middle schoolers holding up letters to spell a slur
Texas resumes investigations into parents of trans children
Sixth child in US dies of unexplained hepatitis
Portuguese angered at influx of Californians who import their problems
Too many children are at risk because of their parents’ mental illness
Graduations marred by shootings sign of continuing gun violence in America
Chris Jericho rips Florida school
Why having kids doesn’t necessarily make you happier, according to research
Why having kids doesn’t necessarily make you happier, according to research
WHAT SHE WISHES SHE’D KNOWN ABOUT PARENTING
Mom tells sleeping son's girlfriend to kill herself
Anna Sorokin blasts her father after he tells how he indulged her
Four teens arrested in gruesome elderly carjacking death
Parents Turn In Teen Elderly Killers
Privileged events coordinator, 26, charged with shoving 87-year-old to her death
Angry girl refuses to move for three-time combat veteran, 96
Georgia parent is stopped from reading sexually explicit book about slavery...
Why Everyone Is So Rude Right Now
Why Everyone Is So Rude Right Now
‘Hey! I’m waiting in your fucking line, asshole?
Man punches Blackx employee for not showing ID
Mother faces criminal charges for telling daughter to hit opponent
Fordham University 'fires a white English professor who mixed up the names of two black students
Filming Wendy’s workers at drive-thru backfires
Instacart driver DESTROYS elderly couple's groceries over pro-police sign in their front yard
Why it will take a village to save our sons
Why it will take a village to save our sons
More young people are dying by suicide, and experts aren't sure why
More young people are dying by suicide, and experts aren't sure why
Spanish Law Requires Kids To Do Chores. What a Great Idea
Glennon Doyle thinks our kids suck. And it’s all our fault.
Parents 'Cannot Cope with This Insanity' While Homeschooling Kids During Pandemic
Teen rips 'lazy mother' for wanting another child: 'She should give up her dream' My Mom Wants Me to Break Social Isolation and Visit Her for Mother’s Day
From the cultural turbulence caused by uncertainty and polarization, to the endless social media and entertainment options, there's a long list of diversions competing for our kids' attention -- making it that much harder to connect with teens in ways that foster their healthy development as they move into young adulthood.
Research has shown this can be particularly challenging if those teens are male. Boys have been found to have higher high school dropout rates than girls, as well as higher suicide rates. They're struggling with technology, too: A 2007 survey found that young men are two to three times more likely than girls to feel addicted to video games.
In my work with families as a stress management and communication specialist, I've found that some young men have put so much attention on their digital devices that they've stopped connecting with their natural drive to become more responsible for their own well-being as a result.
In the summer of 1999, I heard about a wilderness adventure camp for young men in Vancouver, British Columbia. The leader of this event, Brad Leslie, invited me to serve as a volunteer while my son attended the camp as a participant. I needed the help of a village of men, he told me, to raise my son.
"It's a real trend that has been demanding, for a while, a serious public health and research effort to understand what is happening and why," said Anna Mueller, an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University Bloomington who studies suicides in adolescents. "I don't buy that it's just social media, which is one of the explanations that I most consistently see."
"We absolutely need to be really careful to not think about suicide as just a white kid problem," Mueller said. "It's absolutely not. Kids across racial and ethnic groups and sexual orientations experience suicidal thoughts, and even attempt at significant rates."
But Mueller cautioned not to lose sight of the fact that suicidal thoughts are not uncommon, especially among young people.
A bill introduced recently in the nation’s parliament would require that Spanish children do housework and homework. They would also be required to “participate in family life” and “respect their parents and siblings.”
Wow. Good luck with that.
Back here in the United States, I can barely get my 16-year-old to take out the trash. Sometimes, it feels like Middle East peace talks must be easier.
Meanwhile, other parents don’t even ask their kids to pitch in—either because they’ve completely surrendered, have concluded that it’s easier to do the job themselves, or have decided that after-school activities and playtime are more valuable. Children have gone “from being our employees to our bosses,” Jennifer Senior notes in her book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.
In her new book Untamed, she describes how parents receive a ‘terrible memo’ from society as soon as our kids are born.
This memo says that our kids are our saviours and parenting them is akin to a religion. We must give them every opportunity possible and most importantly, we must never allow anything difficult to happen to them.
According to Glennon, not only does this disastrous memo make us parents feel exhausted, neurotic and guilty; but it is also the reason why our kids suck.
Ouch.
The reason our kids suck, she says, is because we no longer allow our children to learn how to lose, or to struggle, or to be rejected.
Due to the coronavirus, American pupils from kindergarten to senior year were forced to swap blackboards for Zoom — much to the dismay of the parents now forced to step in as surrogate teachers.
A viral tweet from archeologist and University of Alabama at Birmingham professor Sarah Parcak summed up many frustrated parents’ emotions after she said homeschooling after completing other household chores was a “fucking joke” that made her “want to barf.”
“We just wrote a hard email. I told our son’s (lovely, kind, caring) teacher that, no, we will not be participating in her 'virtual classroom,' and that he was done with the 1st grade,” she wrote on April 8. “We cannot cope with this insanity. Survival and protecting his well being come first.”
The teenager, who wrote under the username doodlydoot, shared her story on the subreddit AmITheAsshole, where her post has since received more than 25,000 upvotes and nearly 2,000 comments.
One night, the teen said her mom asked her to put her twin 3-year-old siblings to bed while she was busy studying for a test and was met with backlash when she refused to do it.
“She said that it is my responsibility as an older child,” the 16-year-old wrote. “I lost my temper and told her that she can’t take care of her 12 kids as it is, and that she should give up her dream of 15 children because she’s depriving the younger ones of a better life.”
Redditors rushed to the girl’s defense, with a majority agreeing that her siblings were the responsibility of her parents and not her. Reactions ranged from urging her to call Child Protective Services to suggesting she move out.