Here’s a tip for making yourself an easy person for an older kid to talk to: When they suddenly want to tell you stuff at eleven o’clock on a Tuesday night, and you’re exhausted and have a meeting in the morning and the kitchen still needs to get cleaned up and YOU KNOW in your heart they’re only talking to you to avoid going to sleep? Have the conversation anyway.

Los padres son la influencia #1 cuando los jóvenes deciden consumir—o no consumir— alcohol. Es importante mantener las vías de comunicación abiertas a medida que los niños crezcan y les surjan más preguntas. Aquí nuestros personajes –cada cual con su propia función dentro del cerebro– ofrecen sugerencias para romper el...

Conversations about topics such as this “digital balance” can help build strong bonds with your kids. They help develop trust, show them you care, and open up gates to other conversations.

The 2018 evaluation of Ask, Listen, Learn has demonstrated it as an effective program in increasing students’ knowledge concerning brain function and how their developing brains process and are affected by alcohol.

Things for Tweens To Do When There’s No School: Below, we’ve put together an extensive list of things for tweens to do at home so that if — when! — boredom sets in we can refer to it and either pick something from our list to do or, at the very least, be inspired by all of the fun and interesting choices that that there are for us to choose from.