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With tweens and extended adolescence now a part of our vocabulary, it's easy to forget that adolescence didn't always exist. It's only been acknowledged in Western culture for the last 50 or so years. You were a child until you weren't. One defining birthday —13, 16, or 18 — changed everything from clothes to the quotidian details of daily life. It wasn't until the '50s and '60s that youth Read more
Is job experimentation in your 20s a good idea? — SavvySugar Taking sides when your friends are feuding — The Frisky Your salad toppings could lead you to love — Lemondrop Make sure your ex can't track you down with new Facebook feature — GeekSugar Tips that make living together easy — YourTango The consequences of anonymous sperm donation — Em & Lo You shouldn't confront your Read more
This Sunday Mad Men was filled with people not acting their age. The show opens with a clip of "Bye Bye Birdie" being sung by, according to one of Peggy's best lines, "a 25-year-old woman acting like a 14-year-old girl." Is this a harbinger of things to come? Of course. It's Mad Men! It's also 1963 and the Beatles are about to invade, ushering in an era of youth culture. Until the early 20th Read more
If you're like me you're a little sick of all the flip-flopping on who is ultimately responsible for contributing to eating disorders in young women. First it was the modeling world and media. Then Gisele piped in and blamed parents. Shortly afterwards Gisele got publicly criticized for pointing fingers at parents and researchers in turn pointed their fingers straight at genetics. Anyone else Read more
When the traditional baby book just won't cut it . . . check out this absolutely beautiful video that one dad created to document the first 12 years of his daughter's life. Using short video clips, he pieced together stages of Lotte's life, capturing her every week, from infancy through adolescence. Can't get enough? Check out Lotte's 9-year-old brother, Vince. What creative ways have you been Read more
The Internet is teeming with inspiring time-lapse videos of still cityscapes and natural wonders, but the latest time-lapse creation from Dutch photographer Frans Hofmeester highlights a very different sense of the world in motion. Frans filmed his now 12-year-old daughter, Lotte, weekly from her birth to early adolescence and edited together the videos for a time-lapse story of her life. From Read more
Our long wait for the Kinect Star Wars game is finally over! Landing on store shelves today, non-Jedis can now use the Force to battle Darth Vader himself, fly through pod races, and dance the Clone War battles away in groovin' competitions. After months of waiting, we're excited for the motion-based Star Wars game, but it has us wondering what other movies would make thrilling Kinect games. Read more
Can a bad breakout lead to better behavior? Across the pond, Welsh police are hoping that it can. After witnessing a sharp rise in citations for antisocial behavior at a public housing estate, Cardiff officials are thinking of installing pink lights to deter teenagers who congregate, vandalize, and otherwise rabble-rouse. The lights make acne appear more obvious and intense, which is thought to Read more
We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! Research psychologists have all the best tricks up their sleeves. Maybe it’s because they study humans like guinea pigs to figure out what really makes our complicated selves tick. Feeling stressed? Reason yourself out of it (studies show this actually works). Rushed all the time? Slow down, and you’ll be a nicer person (a Read more
Every girl had a diary at some point in her life, right? I know I did, and I remember it fondly. It was purple and had a little lock on the front. But as kids are known to do, I eventually lost the tiny key, so the personal records of my adolescence remain hidden behind the cover. These days, diaries don't have to be made of paper — there are lots of journal apps for your smartphones and iPads Read more
