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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Trends: Back In My Day....The Kids Were Worse? An abundance of research supports the opinions expressed in this CNN.com piece by Laura Sessions Shepp. Young people will always be a challenge. Their brains are not completely developed and they don't have the wisdom even the dimmest mind will gain over the years. Nonetheless, as I've reported in previous blog posts, young people these days are making better decisions on the whole. This author and others make a persuasive case for further development of a positive orientation to what kids are doing...and how well, accordingly, so many parents are doing. Do we reward young people enough? Too much? Should discipline programs be merely punitive? How can feedback and discipline be better tailored to mistakes being handled as true learning experiences...at least as much as they are appropriately punitive? How often do we fundamentally reevaluate our approach to the young people we impact?  Click the image above for the full CNN.com article P.S., one notable exception to the progress of our youth: "One serious problem, according to the CDC, is that more teens are getting fatter. A lot fatter. But aside from that, they appear to be taking better care of themselves than the generation that preceded them." Posted at 3:45 PM Keywords: Trends , Discipline , Pregnancy , Teen Drinking , Teen Driving , Health , Nutrition 0 Comments |