The Spark Blog

Category: Adolescence

  • How to Help a Young Person Understand Their Intelligence Type

    How to Help a Young Person Understand Their Intelligence Type

    For young people, exams are the primary measure of their ‘achievement’. Exams define how we categorise our children and what level of ‘intelligence’ society considers them to possess. Anyone who has struggled at school will understand the negative impact it can have and how unfair it is to be considered as lacking intelligence simply because…

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  • What Young Adults Wish You Knew About Adolescence

    What Young Adults Wish You Knew About Adolescence

    During adolescence, the brain remodels intensively until the individual has reached their mid-20s. Up until that time the decisions, moods and emotions of a young adult are in a state of flux. The front of the brain – the prefrontal cortex – is the last section to be remodelled and is the part of the…

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  • Sexting: A Guide for Parents

    Sexting: A Guide for Parents

    Raising children in the digital age brings with it a host of challenges previous generations never faced. One such high profile and extremely distressing issue – sexting – is fast becoming a common problem. As the lives of young people become ever more embedded in social media, its significance and the number of incidences will…

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  • Self-harm: A Guide for Parents

    Self-harm: A Guide for Parents

    The thought that your child might self-harm is a frightening one. Instances of self-harm amongst children and young people are relatively small. However, the number of children admitted to hospital for self-harming has increased in many parts of Scotland. In some regions it has nearly doubled. Here at The Spark, we believe it is important to give parents/carers…

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