As more fully described in my book about adolescence, Surviving Your Child's Adolescence, the opening stage of adolescence, Early Adolescence, can prove a hard adjustment for parents as they suddenly ...

A lot of the appreciation and acceptance of human variation that was slowly broadening in childhood can begin to narrow come ages 9 - 13 when developmental changes of early adolescence provoke more ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, researchers investigated the longitudinal relationships between appetitive qualities in early childhood and eating problem symptoms ...

New research in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine following US adolescents ages 11–12 shows that problematic use of mobile phones, social media, and video games was associated with higher ...

About The Study: In this cohort study of more than 11,000 children and adolescents, reporting higher than person-level mean social media use in years 1 and 2 after baseline was associated with greater ...

Nearly 1 of every 5 children or adolescents in the US were living with obesity as of 2020, a rate that has doubled or tripled in the past 30 years. That striking rise of obesity among youth has ...

Researchers used baby teeth to prove that environmental metal exposure during specific weeks of infancy predicts adolescent ...