Category: Talking to Kids About…
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Boys Don’t Cry, They Just Die Younger: Why I Give My Male Patients Homework to Ask the Doctor Questions
Every pediatrician has seen this. A 14 year-old boy is sitting on the exam table, wrinkling the paper, staring at the floor like it owes him money. I ask, “Any questions or concerns today?” “Nah.” “Anything bothering you? Sleep, mood, sports, that weird rash you keep scratching?” “I’m good.” He is not good. His mom…
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Alcohol and the Teen Brain: A Match Made in a Neuroscience Nightmare
Your teenager’s brain is still under construction. So naturally, alcohol is eager to show up uninvited, knock over the scaffolding, and announce that it knows a guy who can finish the wiring faster. Teen drinking is not a harmless little rite of passage, a personality trait, or “just what kids do.” It is a drug…