My friend emailed me this article from the SF Chronicle yesterday about the “Wussification of America’s Children.” It basically says that we worry too much…
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When I was a junior in high school, I would pick up my friend along the way to school so we could ride together. She…
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Social Factors The following is a confabulated* transcript based on a conversation with one of my 6th grade middle school students. He was referred to…
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Psychological Factors Let’s get back to our middle school friends. One of the psychological factors that helps to explain middle school students is Identity Development….
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Biological Factors It’s super daunting to distil the gigantic field of biological psychology into a post. But here goes. There are two schools of thought…
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I have always chosen to work in middle schools. I request them on purpose. I love the “tween” age group of 11-14 (“tween”=between children and…
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I got a booklet of papers in the mail today from my mother. Attached to the papers was a sticky note that read:“One finds some…
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I usually compose my daily blog entry in my head on the way home from work. I reflect upon my experiences of the day and…
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Executive Functioning. Ahem. *insert professor voice here* Executive functioning involves the components of inhibiting actions, restraining and delaying responses, attending selectively, selecting goals, planning, organizing,…
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When I worked as a graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley, I had this game I secretly played with my co-worker during staff meetings. It…
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