Maybe I’m romanticizing things, but I look back on my teen years as a pretty unburdened time in my life. I worried about standard teenage things: getting a prom date, how I was going to afford ...

Our entire lives, we’ve been sold a lie. We’ve been taught that growing up means putting your head down, working harder, staying later, and handling it all yourself. We’ve been taught that as parents, ...

In a new PSA, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Brett Favre urges parents of children under 14 not to play tackle football. In the PSA, which is in partnership with the Concussion Legacy Foundation, the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to researcher Eli Stark-Elster about the imbalance of how adults supervise children in physical spaces versus digitally.

What Are Teenagers Stressed About? For the report, “Unpacking Grind Culture in American Teens: Pressure, Burnout, and the Role of Social Media,” researchers asked teens to rate the amount of pressure ...