Here is a selection of my work on issues affecting children, teens and young adults:
We Need To Learn More About Young Men Like the Boston Bomber, Not Less, TIME.com July 18, 2013
The Boy Scouts Have A Lot To Learn From the Girl Scouts, TIME.com, May 23, 2013
Want To Reduce Sports Violence? Make Teens Referee Their Own Games, TIME.com, May 8, 2013
Yes, Suzy Lee Weiss, The College Admissions Game Is Rigged, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, April 3, 2014
What’s Really Scandalous About the School Testing Scandal, TIME.com April 2, 2013
Want To Prevent Teen Pregnancy? Pay Teens Not To Get Pregnant, TIME.com March 12, 2013
The Paradox of Preschool, February 23, 2013 and also (in a less ‘bloggy’ version) at Cognoscenti, March 4, 2013
The Catch-22 of Obama’s Preschool Plan, TIME.com February 19, 2013
Do Teachers Really Discriminate Against Boys? TIME.com February 6, 2013
What the Pygmies Can Teach Us About Childrearing, TIME.com January 30, 2013
Flu Prevention: Why Are Adults Still Sneezing Into Their Hands? TIME.com January 15, 2013
Whither Goes Free Speech at Harvard? TIME.com December 4, 2012
Adults Read Too Much Into “Sesame Street,” TIME.com November 27, 2012
Grownups in Costumes: Have Adults Ruined Halloween? TIME.com October 23, 2012
The Argument You Don’t Hear About Birth Control in Schools, TIME.com September 26, 2012
Harvard Cheating Scandal: Is Academic Dishonesty on the Rise? TIME.com September 4, 2012
Why Children Need Play, August 1, 2012
Why Birth Control Matters For the American Dream, TIME.com July 17, 2012
Summer Camp: Can It Make Kids More Responsible? TIME.com July 10, 2012
Child’s Play: A Manifesto, July 7, 2012
Modern Parenting: Do We Really Need to Re-invent the Wheel? TIME.com July 5, 2012
The School Bus Bullies: Are Adults To Blame Too? TIME.com June 26, 2012
Should We Stop Telling Kids That They’re Special? TIME.com June 12, 2012
College Drinking: Maybe Not a Disorder But Still a Big Problem, TIME.com May 22, 2012
The Hypocrisy of Breast Feeding Shamers, Huffington Post, May 14, 2012
The Good News In Teen Births Isn’t Good Enough, TIME.com May 8, 2012
Too Busy for A Summer Job? Why America’s Youth Lacks Basic Work Skills, TIME.com, May 1, 2012
Did Etan Patz Mark the End of Carefree Parenting? TIME.com 4/24, 2012
The Lessons of the ‘Jesus Is Not a Homophobe’ T-shirt, TIME.com 4/9/12
Does America Hate Children, March 8, 2012
The Ohio School Shooting: Are Parents To Blame When Kids Take Guns To class? TIME.com 2/28/12
What Got Lost in the Debate About Birth Control, TIME.com 2/20/12
Our Concern Over ‘Indecency’ Is Misguided, TIME.com 1/13/12
Why Are We Depriving Our Teens Of Sleep? TIME.com 11/18/11
Has Empathy Become The New Scapegoat? TIME.com 10/12/11
The Call of the Dolphin Mother, CNN. com, January 15, 2011
Want To Get Your Kids Into College? Let Them Play, CNN.com December 29, 2010
Erika Christakis 