Growing a Stronger PFC during the Years Before Puberty

Growing a Stronger PFC during the Years Before Puberty

My book, How Your Teen Can Grow a Smarter Brain, and most of the hundreds of articles on this blog, address how to encourage, support and coach a young person during the adolescent years to wire their prefrontal cortex (PFC) for the thinking skills that they’ll...
Teen Smartphones and Social Networking – Buyer Beware

Teen Smartphones and Social Networking – Buyer Beware

Today, most phone calls are made using wireless smartphones, relayed by Wi-Fi devices in your home or distant radio towers. What we used to call telephones are now called landlines, and these are steadily disappearing. The smartphone technology that people carry in...