Q. I noticed that most of your columns deal with problems teens bring to you. I thought it might be refreshing and bring you a smile to know I鈥檓 doing very well. I just finished my fifth college semester. I have a healthy relationship (you taught me to hold out for that), I get along with my ...
Q. You might think this isn鈥檛 from a teen, but I really am 16. And my mom didn鈥檛 tell me to ask you! I think I鈥檓 spending too much time online. I feel like it鈥檚 a rabbit hole I sink into, going from one You Tube video to Tik Tok to another You Tube video to Insta and then I start all ...
Q. I used to love Thanksgiving. I love the food (well, not the cranberry sauce, but everything else), and I love my family getting together. Maybe I should say I LOVED my family getting together. Ever since last year鈥檚 elections, it鈥檚 like they hate each other. My mom won鈥檛 talk with her ...
Q. Will you weigh in on a debate we had at school? My social studies teacher posed the question 鈥� 鈥�16-year-olds should be allowed to vote.鈥� We were assigned sides, and the conversation was intense. Although some of us were given the negative, and defended it, pretty much all of our ...
Q. Something really awful happened. My mom鈥檚 best friend has a daughter who committed suicide. I didn鈥檛 know the daughter that well, but I observed her mom grieve and my mom got all worried about me. I鈥檝e felt depressed off and on in my life but I鈥檝e never even thought of ending it all. ...
Last week鈥檚 column on artificial intelligence drew a lot of interest. Here are two responses. Q. As a teacher for over 30 years,10 at the college level, I struggle to find any glimmer of positive in the AI craze. I repeatedly told my students in the last years to write their own papers; when ...
