Explore the Teen Brain
Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I became fascinated with brain research more than 20 years ago when science began to really get inside the human brain and explore it. I’ve done my best to keep up over the years as [...]
continue readingTake a Quiz to Find Your Style
Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
It’s always interesting to find out more about yourself. I think that’s what life is really about–finding out who we are and then becoming the best of that. So, whether it’s the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, [...]
continue readingRun Like a Kenyan
Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
This program caught my ear tonight; how hard would it be to make a living running marathons? Salina Kosgei has done so since she was 16 years old, and won the 2009 Boston Marathon by [...]
continue readingBust the Cliques
Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Cliques, gossip, put downs and relational aggression continue as difficulties for the girls’ groups. On the spring survey, about half the girls said gossip and put downs happen at least sometimes in their groups, and only about [...]
continue readingMingle Mingle!
Posted on Sunday, August 9th, 2009
This is a really fun way to mix a group up and then divide up cliques without anyone being the wiser. Here’s a video that is worth 10,000 words of explanation for a game I’ve [...]
continue readingCelebrate Justice!
Posted on Saturday, August 8th, 2009
“I do believe there are gender and ethnic stereotypes that propel people to assumptions about what they expected me to be,” these words from Sonia Sotomayor, our newest Supreme Court Justice, encapsulate the reasons for [...]
continue readingPleasure Meter
Posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
The Pleasure Meter is a good activity to start discussion early in a program, but not right at the beginning. It acquaints participants with each other, indicates preferences and lets us find out about the [...]
continue readingGo Ask Alice
Posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
It’s so important to have reliable information when kids come to us with questions about sex. Or at least we need to be able to FIND that reliable information. This is a great resource for [...]
continue readingLive Mindfully
Posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Thich Nhat Hanh (Brother Thay) challenges me to stay in the moment and experience life fully. I continue to learn this lesson and practice it most imperfectly. His teachings give me hope that each of [...]
continue readingThat’s Not Cool
Posted on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
This is a pretty funny video about what might happen if you talk to your parents, counselor or boyfriend about “textual harassment.” It was developed by Brandon Hardesty and you can also find it on [...]
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