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One of the things that’s really important is these early dietary behaviors, this is really when kids are laying the foundation for some of those dietary behaviors, so starting out strong and making sure that they’re creating these healthy behaviors … that’s going to set them up as they go into adolescence and adulthood. – Heather Hamner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Adolescence is an absolutely crucial time of development, the brain goes through important and fundamental changes in adolescence that set the trajectory for people's lives. – Willem Kuyken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think Madison is the first Zoomer elected to Congress, and I think if a lot of these Boomers and Gen Xers and a few of the older millennials had had a video camera attached to them at all times through their adolescence and in their early 20s we might think differently about them too. – Matt Gaetz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As children move toward adolescence, they naturally prefer to go to sleep later and wake up later, this is why school start times are such an important focus of debate : If you can't fall asleep until later, but your school start time remains the same, you're going to get less sleep. – Christina Chick	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Beginnings of youth to the growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes – Shah Asad Rizvi	added by shahasadrizvi 2 years ago
It's very rare to find a study that follows individuals across early adolescence to middle age, and then as seniors, so that's really why we wanted to highlight this. We also want to think about how we counteract this trend, because these are behaviors that are modifiable. – Mexican American	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We want to highlight that this is a very novel finding and this has not been reported before, thus there is no previous evidence to support these findings, and further research examining the specific stages of sleep development in childhood are needed, however, these findings might be explained by the fact that sleep highly varies in early childhood( compared to later stages, such as adolescence and adulthood), and that specific sleep patterns might have different significance and effects at specific stages of the child ´ s development. – Isabel Morales-Munoz	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I was helping raise teenage girls through their adolescence, i love them. I'm never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honoring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing. – Ashton Kutcher	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We had a hard time with the boombox, we tried it a couple different ways. ... We finished the last shot of the last day of' Say Anything,'( with) a little light in the sky left. The light is disappearing, the shot's moving in on( John McClane) Cusack, and I see it. I see it through the camera : The anger, the resentment, the love, the pain, the glory, the adolescence. All of it was there in his face. We got lucky. – Cameron Crowe	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We should consider the idea that youth is not actually wasted on the young. That their dramas are no more grand than they should be. That their emotions make perfect sense, once you adjust for inflation. For someone going through adolescence, life feels epic and tragic simply because it is. – John Koenig	added by TrekReichen 5 years ago
Throughout her childhood, I was in the military, which means that each year I was away for 11 months, spending one month with my family, our connection during her childhood and adolescence was not that strong. – Meng Wanzhou	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In adolescents, there's a risk where we start to see an increased risk of suicide attempts, just as a part of adolescence, but if this is in the home, this is a really potent drug. They may attempt to add this in or use this as whatever drug they're using for suicide attempts. – Henry Spiller	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Adolescence is where the trouble really starts. – Renee Engeln	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The next step is to increase awareness of the high prevalence of high-risk genital and oral HPV in our general US population so individuals will realize that this is a serious problem and they will get their children vaccinated in early adolescence before they become sexually active. – Geraldine McQuillan	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Adolescence is a time of tremendous stress and it seems like today’s teens have unusually high, often unreasonable, expectations for themselves, as a result, depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns are increasingly common as are maladaptive behaviors such as substance abuse, self-injury, eating disorders and other forms of unhealthy coping. – Bernard Biermann	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Persistence of a problem usually indicates a chronic problem and these have been shown in other research to have higher persistence into adolescence. – Dieter Wolke	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
HPV vaccine needs to be given prior to exposure to these viruses in order to be effective in preventing infections with these viruses, and there is also a good immune response to the vaccine in early adolescence, it is fine if it is given many years before a person becomes sexually active. – Ruth Lynfield	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was a little taken aback to see that apparently preadolescence is the new adolescence or junior high school or middle school is the new high school. – Suniya Luthar	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's important to show that they're just, in my opinion, vulnerable young men on the boundary between adolescence and adulthood and trying to work out what they're supposed to be doing in life, and at that point they've got this thing going on around them, just this crazy amount of violence, and people like them are getting pulled in. – Photographer Tom King	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The time to respond to bullying, and to support victims of bullying, is during adolescence when it occurs, don’t wait to see whether it gets better ; make sure the teen bullying victim knows that he/she is not to blame. – Matthew Davis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Generally speaking, minor forms of hypospadias may not be a major problem, we have to take care of children with severe hypospadias and follow them up to adolescence and beyond because we know that those are the ones that might need help and counseling later in life. – Alexander Springer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I just think that it should be a complete wake-up call to every parent, educator, policymaker, business person (and) tech industry person that the reshaping of our media tech landscape is first and foremost affecting young people's lives and reshaping childhood and adolescence. – James Steyer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. – Kieran Dowd and colleagues	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If mothers do not currently perceive their child’s weight as problematic, they are less likely to seek or implement any intervention to address this, it is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. – Kieran Dowd and colleagues	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

One of the things that’s really important is these early dietary behaviors, this is really when kids are laying the foundation for some of those dietary behaviors, so starting out strong and making sure that they’re creating these healthy behaviors … that’s going to set them up as they go into adolescence and adulthood.

– Heather Hamner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Adolescence is an absolutely crucial time of development, the brain goes through important and fundamental changes in adolescence that set the trajectory for people's lives.

– Willem Kuyken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think Madison is the first Zoomer elected to Congress, and I think if a lot of these Boomers and Gen Xers and a few of the older millennials had had a video camera attached to them at all times through their adolescence and in their early 20s we might think differently about them too.

– Matt Gaetz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As children move toward adolescence, they naturally prefer to go to sleep later and wake up later, this is why school start times are such an important focus of debate : If you can't fall asleep until later, but your school start time remains the same, you're going to get less sleep.

– Christina Chick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Beginnings of youth to the growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

It's very rare to find a study that follows individuals across early adolescence to middle age, and then as seniors, so that's really why we wanted to highlight this. We also want to think about how we counteract this trend, because these are behaviors that are modifiable.

– Mexican American

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We want to highlight that this is a very novel finding and this has not been reported before, thus there is no previous evidence to support these findings, and further research examining the specific stages of sleep development in childhood are needed, however, these findings might be explained by the fact that sleep highly varies in early childhood( compared to later stages, such as adolescence and adulthood), and that specific sleep patterns might have different significance and effects at specific stages of the child ´ s development.

– Isabel Morales-Munoz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was helping raise teenage girls through their adolescence, i love them. I'm never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honoring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing.

– Ashton Kutcher

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We had a hard time with the boombox, we tried it a couple different ways. ... We finished the last shot of the last day of' Say Anything,'( with) a little light in the sky left. The light is disappearing, the shot's moving in on( John McClane) Cusack, and I see it. I see it through the camera : The anger, the resentment, the love, the pain, the glory, the adolescence. All of it was there in his face. We got lucky.

– Cameron Crowe

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We should consider the idea that youth is not actually wasted on the young. That their dramas are no more grand than they should be. That their emotions make perfect sense, once you adjust for inflation. For someone going through adolescence, life feels epic and tragic simply because it is.

– John Koenig

added by TrekReichen
5 years ago

Throughout her childhood, I was in the military, which means that each year I was away for 11 months, spending one month with my family, our connection during her childhood and adolescence was not that strong.

– Meng Wanzhou

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In adolescents, there's a risk where we start to see an increased risk of suicide attempts, just as a part of adolescence, but if this is in the home, this is a really potent drug. They may attempt to add this in or use this as whatever drug they're using for suicide attempts.

– Henry Spiller

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Adolescence is where the trouble really starts.

– Renee Engeln

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The next step is to increase awareness of the high prevalence of high-risk genital and oral HPV in our general US population so individuals will realize that this is a serious problem and they will get their children vaccinated in early adolescence before they become sexually active.

– Geraldine McQuillan

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Adolescence is a time of tremendous stress and it seems like today’s teens have unusually high, often unreasonable, expectations for themselves, as a result, depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns are increasingly common as are maladaptive behaviors such as substance abuse, self-injury, eating disorders and other forms of unhealthy coping.

– Bernard Biermann

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Persistence of a problem usually indicates a chronic problem and these have been shown in other research to have higher persistence into adolescence.

– Dieter Wolke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

HPV vaccine needs to be given prior to exposure to these viruses in order to be effective in preventing infections with these viruses, and there is also a good immune response to the vaccine in early adolescence, it is fine if it is given many years before a person becomes sexually active.

– Ruth Lynfield

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was a little taken aback to see that apparently preadolescence is the new adolescence or junior high school or middle school is the new high school.

– Suniya Luthar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's important to show that they're just, in my opinion, vulnerable young men on the boundary between adolescence and adulthood and trying to work out what they're supposed to be doing in life, and at that point they've got this thing going on around them, just this crazy amount of violence, and people like them are getting pulled in.

– Photographer Tom King

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The time to respond to bullying, and to support victims of bullying, is during adolescence when it occurs, don’t wait to see whether it gets better ; make sure the teen bullying victim knows that he/she is not to blame.

– Matthew Davis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Generally speaking, minor forms of hypospadias may not be a major problem, we have to take care of children with severe hypospadias and follow them up to adolescence and beyond because we know that those are the ones that might need help and counseling later in life.

– Alexander Springer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I just think that it should be a complete wake-up call to every parent, educator, policymaker, business person (and) tech industry person that the reshaping of our media tech landscape is first and foremost affecting young people's lives and reshaping childhood and adolescence.

– James Steyer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.

– Kieran Dowd and colleagues

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If mothers do not currently perceive their child’s weight as problematic, they are less likely to seek or implement any intervention to address this, it is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.

– Kieran Dowd and colleagues

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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