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There are a number of ways in which parents can lessen the effect of peer influence. Possibly one of the more important is for parents to correct the common teenage misperception that ‘all teenagers drink lots of alcohol’. This false belief leads some teenagers to feel they need to drink to excess in order to [...]
Two conferences are being organised by Julie Gale in the coming weeks: Bratz, Britney and Bralettes: The Sexualisation of Childhood Monday 3rd August, 2009 7:00pm for 7:30pm to 9.30pm Melbourne Girls Grammar School, South Yarra. ”From tiny tots to late teens, girls are being preyed on, and damaged, by sexualisation and media messages about weight, [...]
When I was a Police Officer, one of the most common conversations I had with parents went along the lines of, “someone has hacked into my daughter’s Hotmail account and........” In reality however, what had happened was that the daughter had shared her password with one of her friends, or had as a password something [...]
Last month the national depression initiative launched its youth campaign, Youthbeyondblue with the startling news that around 160,000 young people aged 16-24 years live with depression, making it the most common of all mental health problems in young people. But the real tragedy is the news that there can be a delay of anywhere between [...]
Just a reminder that you can buy tickets to the next Generation Next seminar in Melbourne this Saturday here. Venue is the Exhibition and Convention Centre in South Bank and it runs from 6-10pm.
We received an overwhelming response to comments by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg this week about the over-use of mobile phone technology by young children. Our research of 257 Australian parents representing 517 children showing 69 percent of kids aged under 18 have a mobile raises some interesting points. While no-one can deny mobile phone technology has [...]
Here's the Today Tonight story that aired nationally on June 2, shot around the Sydney event on May 23. Generation Next on Today Tonight
Did you know that the prospect of their child becoming a victim of bullying is now the top fear among Australian parents? Six-in-ten parents nominate bullying as their biggest concern, ahead of their children becoming a victim of crime (46 percent) or performing poorly at school (44 percent). Make no mistake - online bullying is [...]
You might be surprised that Victorian families are the least likely to actively keep an eye on what websites their kids are visiting, given that they’re also the most likely to have an Internet-capable computer in a shared area of the home. Generation Next’s research with parents of 527 children asked what strategies they used [...]
In a study of adolescent medical consultations, adolescent patients were asked whether any of the seven sensitive topics (behavior, mood, getting along with others, their parent's mood, family stresses, sexuality/birth control, and drugs/tobacco/alcohol) were raised by their doctor. Adolescents who were asked about one or more of these sensitive topics were significantly more likely to [...]
