- Double Take: Try to open lines of communication on birth control
- July 2, 2012
- Dear Dr. Wes and Miranda: I picked up some birth control brochures from my doctor the other day because I’m thinking of switching to a different one that you don’t have to take a pill every day. The thing is my mom doesn’t know I’m even on birth control and I’m pretty sure she found those papers.
- Double Take: Daughter’s road trip a rite of passage
- June 25, 2012
- Dear Dr. Wes and Miranda: Please publish this as quickly as you can because I have to make a decision. My daughter and her two girlfriends want to take a senior road trip before college starts in the fall. I didn’t like the idea when they brought it up in March but thought it was going to be a moot point due to cost. Then gas prices went down, so now it’s on again.
- Double Take: The Ugly Meter app a tool for bullying in the wrong teen hands
- June 18, 2012
- The Ugly Meter. Sounds like something from a young adult novel, but it’s actually an app a lot of teens and tweens have downloaded to their phones.
- Double Take: Alternatives to college
- Not every teen takes the same path after high school, but continued education is necessary
- June 11, 2012
- Dear Dr. Wes and Miranda: In your graduation column, you gave general words of encouragement to high school grads and Miranda addressed those going to college. But not everyone goes to college, and of the ones who do, not everyone finishes. I was wondering if you could write a column for those kids.
- Double Take: Twitter both a gold mine for teen insights and a land mine of potential faux pas
- June 4, 2012
- I’ll bet when you first heard about Twitter, you thought “Seriously? Do I care that someone is getting a Big Mac right now in Alabama?” I didn’t. But as I’ve given myself over to the Twitosphere, I’ve found that in addition to helping Middle Eastern rebels overthrow despotic regimes, Twitter offers some great teen writing.
- Double Take: Advice for graduates
- May 28, 2012
- ‘Tis the season of graduation. A time of reflection, celebration, and sadness all rolled up together and concentrated into a walk across the stage and a party or two afterwards. Then the real world begins. Things are over. Other things start. That’s why they call it commencement.
- Double Take: Importance of ‘the college experience’
- May 21, 2012
- My parents are pressuring me to go to college locally and live at home. That’s not the college experience I wanted.
- Double Take: New column co-author to take the helm in August
- May 14, 2012
- As always, this year’s Double Take contest was a competitive affair. It was made even more so by the difficulty of the challenge question, which, by the breadth of rankings, seems to have created as much disagreement for the judges as for the prospective coauthors.
- Double Take: Make something of your summer
- May 7, 2012
- Follow our advice, and next August when you’re back at school and everyone asks, “What did you do all summer?” you’ll have something to be proud of.
- Double Take: ‘3 E’s‘ help kids face bullying
- April 30, 2012
- Some adults still imagine bullies as bigger kids who pick on weaker ones on the playground or after school, taking lunch money and smashing eyeglasses. But that doesn’t fully explain bullying anymore.
- Double Take: Family therapy might be worthwhile, even if no problems are obvious
- April 23, 2012
- I’ve read your tweets about cutting, in which you recommended family therapy. Nobody in my family cuts, but my 20-year-old sister still thinks we all need to go to family therapy. I don’t know why. We don’t fight at all. Any suggestions?
- Double Take: Unrequited love doesn’t end like in the movies
- End a friendship where feelings are not reciprocated
- April 16, 2012
- I think I’m falling in love with a guy who I know is not in love with me. He keeps telling me that we’re only friends. Why can’t I hear him? I keep thinking he’s going to finally see me as the perfect girl for him because I know I am.
- Double Take: Time for a new teen voice for column
- April 9, 2012
- This week we begin the seventh annual Double Take essay contest to find the ninth co-author of the column. The winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship for freshman year of college from dr-wes.com and $100 from Central National Bank, and an even more valuable line item on college apps and resume.
- Double Take: Don’t give in to pressure on waxing
- April 2, 2012
- I’m 17. My girlfriends told me that if I want to get with a guy I need to get a Brazilian wax and that all the boys they know will only be with me if I do it. I assume you know what that is. It sounds terrible to me and it will hurt and I don’t want to do it, but they’re pressuring me. What is your advice?
- Double Take: Parents must teach kids technology ethics
- March 26, 2012
- We’ve been writing about how technology impacts teens for as long as Double Take has been in print and online. Back then, teenagers used AIM. I’m not sure they even know what this is anymore. Now Facebook and Twitter are major forms of communication, and Tumblr and Pinterest on are on the march. If you don’t know what those are, dear parents, now would be a good time to learn.
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