Adolescence

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  • It's all good

    As a parent and a psychiatrist, Dr. Lynn Ponton has daily encounters with the danger and exhilaration that accompany adolescence. Teenage risk is scary, she says, but it is also a developmental necessity.
    By Dr. Lynn Ponton September 17, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    Countdown from cool
    September 13, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    Glow
    August 9, 2002

  • Minor report

    Sex between teenage boys and older men is not always coercive -- and it can be more ecstatic than traumatic.
    By David Tuller July 22, 2002

  • "Hang in there, sweetie. I'll be home in 18 years"

    As a father behind bars, my role is to listen to my daughter's life.
    By Stephen Reid July 18, 2002

  • Rotten kid

    Why do the John Ashcrofts burn with hatred for John Walker Lindh? He's their renegade son whose every thought and action stands as an unforgivable personal rebuke.
    By Eric Weinberger July 17, 2002

  • The Madman and me

    Ozzy and I crossed paths on the worst day of my life. Boy, am I grateful.
    By Erich Pfeifer July 16, 2002

  • Flour power

    The authorities have decided that hauling around sacks of flour will teach middle schoolers not to get pregnant. My daughter and I think it's a half-baked idea.
    By Susan Straight June 25, 2002

  • This is not my beautiful house

    We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.
    By Carol Lynn Mithers May 14, 2002

  • A new stunt to stunt growth

    New restrictions on high school graduation go further to infantilize teenagers in the hope of making them perfect adults.
    By Janelle Brown May 13, 2002

  • Why drug tests flunk

    If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way.
    By Janelle Brown April 22, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    Crush
    December 14, 2001

  • Lynda Barry

    Velvet Sug
    December 7, 2001

  • Dear Concerned Mother

    My writing students in juvenile hall -- addicts, thieves, gangbangers -- have great parenting advice. All you have to do is ask.
    By Jill Wolfson November 26, 2001

  • Payback time

    My son is leaving to live with his dad. It is only fair -- and horrendously painful
    By Debra Gordon October 23, 2001

  • If a child is a killer, are the parents to blame?

    Psychologist and author James Garbarino says the responsibility for teen violence must be shared.
    By Damien Cave September 6, 2001

  • Lynda Barry

    Means he likes you.
    August 10, 2001

  • Porn virgins

    I remember the first time I saw a dirty movie with my girlfriends, when we still burst into hysterical laughter at the word "penis."
    By Emily Jenkins July 25, 2001

  • On the custody circuit

    My sister and I were lawless in transit, silent upon arrival.
    By Rebecca Land Soodak June 29, 2001

  • Kids on the road

    They have exchanged hair gel and television for playing blindman's buff and swimming with manta rays.
    By Kate Convissor May 8, 2001

  • Been there, done that

    The Santana High School shooting was terrifying. The students' response was chilling.
    By Chris Colin March 6, 2001

  • I'm no Heidi

    I felt happy rather than traumatized when I was told that my breasts were beginning to develop.
    By Tracy Quan February 20, 2001

  • Lolita's book tour

    Rebbecca Ray's novel, "Pure," written when she was 16, is a raw work of sexual exposure. Is it autobiographical? "Thank God it's not," she says.
    By Tess Taylor September 20, 2000

  • Whose crisis is this, anyway?

    Teens are getting the blame for their parents' failures.
    By Debra Ollivier August 30, 2000

  • Facts of life

    One wonderful, confusing, sweaty summer in Miami, I got my first lessons about sex from my pal, my dad and a Jersey girl.
    By Stephen G. Bloom April 11, 2000
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