Kids Today: Thoughts From Research, Practice, and the Classroom

Across time and generations, elders have often bemoaned with exasperation, “Kids today!” As a quintessential “baby boomer,” I often hear same-aged peers complain about youth (e.g., those born between the late 1990s and early 2000s). While developmental psychologists eschew using broad labels to describe large generational cohorts (i.e., the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, […]

Research Says: Let Your Teen Sleep In

How hard was it to get your teens out of bed this weekend? Many teenagers—and let’s be honest, adults, too—like to bank some extra hours of sleep on Saturdays and Sundays. If you’re the kind of parent who likes your kids to get up early on weekends so they don’t get too far off their […]

How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a…

Recently, Toni Antonucci, a senior researcher at the University of Michigan, received a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). For decades, she and her colleagues had been running the National Study of American Life, studying the social determinants of health in preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in Black […]