Health and Social

Finding your place in college

Elbia Vidal Castillo | August 8, 2025

  We all arrive at college the same way — nervous, with a suitcase in hand and thousands of unanswered questions swirling around in our heads. Maybe back in high school, you knew everyone in

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Right Feelings, Right Time 

Elaine Griffin | July 18, 2025

  The emotional life of a teenager is hard to navigate—for parents and teachers, too A review of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour For latchkey kids

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How Smartphones Are Rewiring Children: The Anxious Generation Review

Elaine Griffin | July 4, 2025

[Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice” that

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Princeton needs to take academic breaks seriously

Davis Hobley | June 6, 2025

  Every Princeton student knows the struggle of balancing academics with rest over breaks. Whether it be submitting an essay draft due at the start of fall break or finishing a presentation for the Monday

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American kids are overmedicated

Jack Verrill | April 11, 2025

  America is a lot of things: a global leader in innovation, an arms dealer, a centuries-old democracy, an abuser of human rights (sometimes). We are also a pharmacy, and if you are a toddler showing mild signs

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Princeton’s role in combating the drug crisis must start on campus

Lizbeth Reyes | March 28, 2025

  Drug addiction is a public health crisis in the United States. Total overdose deaths have increased in the United States over the last two decades across all demographic groups, with about 17 percent of Americans battling a substance use disorder

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3 Helpful Scripts for Teachers with Anxious, Perfectionist Students

Caralena Peterson | February 21, 2025

  After “the craziest admissions season ever” last year, and as we head into what will surely be another highly competitive cycle, high school students are understandably increasingly anxious about their academics. I’ve witnessed this

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There is no such thing as the perfect victim

Livia LaMarca | January 24, 2025

  The fallout of the film It Ends with Us has been nothing short of messy. Star Blake Lively faced widespread criticism after marketing the film, a story about domestic violence, as a hot pink, flower-power version

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Health & Well-Being: Reframing the Anxiety Conversation

Elaine Griffin | January 10, 2025

  [Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice”

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