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Dating and Your Child

It's a rite of passage for any adolescent. As a parent, you can and should set ground rules for dating and relationships that will help your teen as she nagivates romantic relationships.

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High School Provides Ideal Time for Career Exploration

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As high school students prepare to make decisions about their future careers, they should not assume they have to focus only on the subjects they are best at, a Purdue University career and technical education expert says.

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The Best Way to Get Teens to Learn

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Getting kids interested in what they're learning is an age-old problem that continues to plague teachers and parents. Now, researchers from the University of Leuven in Belgium report in the March/April issue of the journal Child Development, that when teenagers understand that learning helps them attain an intrinsic goal (e.g., self-development, personal health, etc.), they are more likely to become interested in the topic and grasp its conceptual aspects than if they are motivated to learn only to attain extrinsic goals (e.g., financial success, physical attractiveness, etc.)

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College Bound! The First Year Experience

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Remember your first year? Now it's your child's turn.

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When Freshmen Return Home for Thanksgiving, Worlds Can Collide

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Many families of college freshman will be celebrating a belated Thanksgiving this year -- giving thanks that their son or daughter is back at school, and all have survived the first visit home.

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