We’re living in an ocean of information about parenting.We aim to help you navigate the waters.Here we’ll overlap some content with the PHFP newsletter and provide ongoing articles, references, musings, good resources, and links to must-read news about adolescents, ado...

The following article appeared on Bustle, October 2, 2014.

I thought ADHD was just a hyper-kid thing. It’s like everybody has ADHD now, right? But adults don’t have it, do they? The only thing I know about ADHD is that my friends take Ritalin and don’t actually ha...

by Michael Y. Simon, LMFT

On August 25, 2014, USC Professor Jonathan Taplin wrote an open letter to his students. Taplin's bio is below. You can read the letter here.

Melanie Curtin responded to Taplin's letter, and it can be read here. Her brief bio appears at the end...

Link to Huffington Post Review of "The Age of Opportunity"

On September 3, Linda Flanagan published her review of Laurence Steinberg's new book on adolescent development, "The Age of Opportunity." Dr. Steinberg is one of the country's foremost experts on adoles...

“Generations, like people, have personalities. Their collective identities typically begin to reveal themselves when their oldest members move into their teens and twenties and begin to act upon their values, attitudes and worldviews” (From the online description of T...

Michael Simon was recently interviewed by Bustle.com for a piece on social media in general, and specifically about the impact with youth. Here's the interview in it's entirety.

Bustle: There are several studies that analyze the impact of social media on the human...

Today is graduation day for many Northern California high schools. College acceptance packets have been long-since been mailed out and most decisions have been made. Now the fun begins, right? Seniors get time to hang with their friends before going off to college, enj...