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Tweens and teens
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The slowly-recovering economy has been especially hard on teens who count on minimum wage jobs to cover expenses and provide experience. The jobs are fewer, and adults who can’t find employment have stepped in to work positions traditionally held by teens. While it won’t bring in spending money, vo
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With college acceptance letters arriving for high school seniors this month, sophomores and juniors are thinking about the extracurricular activities they’ll be putting down on their own college applications. Spring is a good time to make plans for summer and beyond, and to enjoy the activities they
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The chill in the air still calls for a jacket, yet crocuses have popped up in the garden, and anticipation for spring is building! For parents of school-aged children (and younger), this time of year means one thing when it comes to their kiddos: summer camp planning. We're here to help inspire you
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While working at a science museum, I once observed a mother, toting a daughter past exhibits on dinosaurs, oceans and machines, approach an employee. “Where is the stuff for girls?” she asked. It’s a question that would ruffle the feathers of any female archaeologist, marine biologist or engineer.
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When she arrived in the Eastern Washington farming community of Wapato last spring for a six-day school service trip, Overlake High School junior Caroline Spencer expected to learn about migrant farm workers’ issues and work alongside them in apple orchards. What she didn’t expect was that her exper
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Summertime, and — for teens, at least — the reading is not easy. According to Hayden Bass, teen services librarian at Seattle’s Central Library, many teens’ reading habits are so constrained during the school year by assigned reading that it’s hard for them to switch gears and pick up a book for
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By Patti Skelton-McGougan, executive director of Youth Eastside Services.Disciplining your teenager can be tricky and daunting at times. No doubt it’s one of the hardest struggles that parents face. We often wonder about the severity of the consequences—should they be the same for all teens and scen
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By now, most high school seniors know where they’re going to college next year. They are winding up a long, arduous process, which in some homes, begins practically at birth. That’s because the ramped-up, increasingly aggressive college-prep process has reached new, stunning heights. There’s tha
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