In last week's film, we watched "Molly Grows Up" a film about menarche. This week's video is a boys' film that may also be useful in the classroom to demonstrate sexuality education in historical perspective. "As Boys Grow" is a film from 1957 explaining the wonders of puberty to boys.
In this 1953 short film, a young lady named Molly prepares for and experiences menarche. This film shows how times have changed -and also how some things will never change. Throughout time, the onset of menstruation is a girl's biological rite of passage. Good education helps to ensure that the experience is positive and not scary.
The Raising Teens Project found significant areas of agreement among experts on the parenting of adolescents-in spite of the broad diversity of cultures represented in the United States and the myriad individual differences in parents and children. Its central findings-Ten Tasks of Adolescent Development and Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents-cut across a broad range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
For more than 50 years, Search Institute® has been a leader and partner for organizations around the world in discovering what kids need to succeed. Search Institute serves all sectors of society, including K–12 and higher education, faith communities, youth-serving organizations, social-service organizations, families, businesses, and the public sector.
Patel (founder and executive director, Interfaith Youth Core, "a Chicago-based international nonprofit building the interfaith youth movement") is an Indian Muslim who grew up outside of Chicago. In this memoir, he explores the evolution of his own religious and cultural identity as he gradually came to reject anger at being excluded from mainstream American society in order to promote interfaith awareness with a focus on younger generations.
Responding to increasing awareness and concerns, the MIT Young Adult Development Project was created in 2005 to analyze, distill, and disseminate key findings about young adult development, findings that shed light on the unique strengths and dramatic challenges for this extraordinary period.
The MIT Young Adult Development Project was created to capture the powerful new research findings that are emerging about young adulthood and to make these insights more accessible to those who need them, including colleges and universities, employers, parents, human service providers, and young adults themselves.
