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...outrageous acts by some of the youngest Fort Worth students at schools across the district. Among them: a 6-year-old who told his teacher to "shut up, bitch," a first-grader whose fits of anger ended with his peeling off his clothes and throwing them at the school psychologist, and hysterical kindergartners who bit teachers so hard they left tooth marks...
Hinshaw and other experts on child behavior also point out that aggressive behavior in children has been irrefutably linked to exposure to violence on TV and in movies, video games and other media. "Dozens of studies have shown this link. Probably hundreds," says psychologist Jerome Singer, co-director of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center. "The size of the effect is almost as strong as the relationship between smoking and cancer...
Following in the footsteps of psychologist Stephen Covey’s son Sean, who published The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Jay, a third-year law student at Southern Methodist University, has published Life Strategies for Teens and more recently The Ultimate Weight Loss Solution for Teens; both books are spin-offs of his father’s “adult” volumes. Both in interviews and on his father’s show, Jay is charismatic, confident, and cute (in a wacky self-helper kind of way). He’s even...
Though he promises the moon, Gaudet is no fairy godmother. He’s not even a licensed psychologist. He is, by his own description, a life coach. So far, six Harvard students have signed up for his daily dish of encouragement, enthusiasm and empathy...
...1920s at the urging of then Harvard President James Bryant Conant, Harvard began using the test in order to identify America’s brightest students who did not necessarily have the benefit of being a legacy or attending a prep school. It was developed by Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham, who based many of the questions on an intelligence test had developed for the U.S. army. The test’s now infamous acronym stood for Student Aptitude Test, and was intended to measure exactly that. Since the SAT’s inception, however, the College Board...