In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
Group membership can modify individuals' perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psych...
Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against lab...
The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?
Instead of revamping school policies to welcome every child, many school systems are bent on revamping the students to conform to their schools.
Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong li...
Gaming was one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing. But even more than that, It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity tha...
By treating patients like customers, as nurse Amy Bozeman pointed out in a Scrubs magazine article, hospitals succumb to the ingrained cultural notion that the customer is always right. Now we are tol...
Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
The next night, Jake again tried to party with his high school friends. Arjun again drank until he barfed. One of the girls drank herself out of her mind; she continually told anyone within earshot th...
The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
In 1967, psychiatrist Leonard Stein described the nurse’s role in an essay entitled The Doctor–Nurse Game. The object of the game, he said, was for a nurse to make her recommendations appear to be ini...
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or...
I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.
Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.