by Jennifer Mathieu
Here is an insane story about how kids are asking one another to the prom these days.
“They have this risk aversion that we’ve seen with millennials since they were teenagers. It’s declining…
They’re having a neat conversation over at Feministe about, among other things, the changing sex-ed curricula, and also how…
This delightful monstrosity is apparently “one of PromGirl.com’s best-selling dresses this year,” according to…
by Kate Watkins
In the four illustrated graphs for this piece on how teenagers today aren’t smoking, drinking, or having sex, one graph is not like the others.
“A new study from Queen’s University has found obese teenage girls are three times more likely to be bullies than the slimmer girls in their class — a finding that highlights the very cyclical nature of bullying.”
“Over the years, researchers have found that weight gain and moderate to severe acne — a problem that affects about one in five teenagers — go hand in hand, particularly among young women.”
“Grand slam,” called out a boy (who’d later tell me with disarming matter-of-factness that “the one thing Mr…