In recent years through my work with teens and young adults, I’ve observed that a different maturation process is emerging. Traditionally, the route to becoming a responsible adult was thought to be a linear, developmental process where accomplishing one step seemed to lead to the next one and so on. Education usually progressed in a straight line from kindergarten through high school, and then to college and possibly even graduate school. One’s career trajectory seemed to work the same way – we started at the bottom, moved up through a hierarchy, and hoped to come out “on top”.
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Self-Creation Nation! Becoming in the Social Media Age
In recent years through my work with teens and young adults, I’ve observed that a different maturation process is emerging. Traditionally, the route to becoming a responsible adult was thought to be a linear, developmental process where accomplishing one step seemed to lead to the next one and so on. Education usually progressed in a straight line from kindergarten through high school, and then to college and possibly even graduate school. One’s career trajectory seemed to work the same way – we started at the bottom, moved up through a hierarchy, and hoped to come out “on top”.
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Exercise Your Mindfulness Muscle Through Meditation
There are many articles in popular news reports, blogs and magazines, as well as in scientific journals, indicating that practicing mindfulness and meditation is good for you. Meditation has been linked to:
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Wisdom for Teens (and Adults too)!
Brain science shows us that in teenagers, the prefrontal cortex is not yet well integrated with other brain functions, and therefore they have difficulty with judgment, impulse control and reasoning. They tend to act without thinking, and are motivated by more primitive impulses– reactive and seeking out easy solutions.
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