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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Teens Are Asking to Be Seen: The Politics of Growing Up

Adolescence has always been a season of becoming. One of its most striking features is the dawning awareness that childhood is ending and adulthood is coming into view. This realization touches nearly every part of a young person's life: how they think, what they value, and, increasingly, how they understand the world beyond their own front door. Yet many teens encounter a familiar frustration as they begin to speak with more complexity-the sense of being dismissed, underestimated, or gently waved aside.
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fromMission Local
1 month ago

What will be the future of Alcatraz Island? S.F. kids: fun please!

San Francisco elementary students held a mock supervisorial hearing proposing playful, non-prison uses for Alcatraz while federal officials push to reopen it as a prison.
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