Tag: teenagers

Are we sacrificing our childrens’ inner lives by protecting them too much?

Kira Martin struggles through her connection – both emotional and physical – with her troubled and destructive son.

Jen Doll comes to terms with her inner teenager … or whatever.

Three stories on youth activism in conservative towns shed an interesting light on the national gun debate.

One vape pen to rule them all.

An 18-year-old Parisian woman streams her suicide on social media.

For three years, Casey Parks chronicled the life of Jay, a transgender teenager in Washington State. This is the first installment in a three-part series for the Oregonian.

There must be few journalistic feats more difficult than getting inside the head of a teenager. But with “13, Right Now,” Washington Post staff writer Jessica Contrera joins the ranks of reporters who have skillfully chronicled the lives of children and teens, including Susan Orlean (read her classic Esquire piece, “The American Man, Age 10”) and more […]

Though young adult literature has arguably existed since at least Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, which was published in the 1930s, teachers and librarians were slow to accept books for teenagers as a genre. “Today, many librarians are acting like frightened ostriches,” Mary Kingsbury complained in 1971. Afraid of parental criticism and the threat of concerned administrators, she […]