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We Tell Our Kids That Hard Work Always Pays Off. What Happens When They Fail Anyway?

By Rachel Simmons

Scientists Are Struggling to Understand When Adolescence Begins

By The Aspen Institute

Finding Commonality in the Female Experience

By Alexandra Genova

Parents Don't Get How Negative They Seem to Their Teenagers

By Juli Fraga
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Good News: You've Got a Better Brain Than You Think

Getting older? No worries

By Jeffrey Kluger

How to Tell if Your Teen Daughter's Relationship is Unhealthy

7 things to watch out for, from stomach aches to constant check-ins

By Erin Goodhart

Your Teenage Daughter Isn’t Psychotic—and 3 Other Things to Stop Worrying About

A psychologist explains why normal teen behavior can seem bizarre

By Lisa Damour

3 Things to Consider Before Buying Your Kid a Cellphone this Holiday

Here's how to figure out if you want to go down that road

By Yalda T. Uhls

Schools Start Too Early, Federal Officials Say

Officials say kids need more sleep for better health, safety and academic performance

By Alexandra Sifferlin

What Binge Drinking During Adolescence Does to the Brain

A new study in rats underlines the consequences of underage drinking

By Alexandra Sifferlin

The Surprising Downside of Becoming One of the Cool Kids

How the intense 'social combat' of high school hurts popular teens too--and what anti-bullying programs are getting wrong according to the co-author of a new study on adolescent relationships

By Randye Hoder

Coming of Age in America: The Photography of Joseph Szabo

The first major retrospective of work by the quintessential photographer of American teenage life opens this week at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Long Island, New York.

By Phil Bicker
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