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Adolescence, Identity, and Summer Camp Stephen Gray Wallace, MS Ed November 2017 The Broadway megahit and multi-Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen has crystallized America’s focus on one of the most challenging and most consequential developmental processes for children and young adults: identity formation. Ben Platt, 23, serves up a serial performance that accurately, engagingly captures what…

No doubt the transition to college can be difficult to navigate, both for incoming first-year students and their parents. Let’s start with the latter. As my friend Ginny commented on Facebook about her son’s impending departure, “I will not post a picture of my son sleeping in his bed for the last time (ok, I know he’ll be back but…

October marks the 12th annual National Bullying Prevention Month … and it hasn’t come a minute too soon. Citing data from the National Center for Educational Statistics, PACER Center, which began this movement, says that 20.8% of students – more than one out of every five – report being bullied. One in 5. The results can be devastating.…

From a purely psychological perspective, the notion of “springing forward” sounds more appealing than “falling back.” And while debate continues to rage about the manmade construct of Daylight Saving Time (DST)—as well as its origins and intentions—I for one enjoy a little more daylight at the end of day, despite the fact that many a school child…

  Returning from spring break marks the beginning of the end for both high school and college seniors. More important, it reveals a duality of realism reflecting both the best of times and, perhaps, the worst of times. For high schoolers, senior spring offers a victory lap of sorts, cavorting and celebrating with some of…