Ah, adolescence. The big emotions. The physical changes. The seemingly endless push and pull between childhood and adulthood, when kids…
Concentration in the Third Plane
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Adolescence
Empathy in the Third Plane
By the time learners reach adolescence, their ability to take on the perspective of another person is well-developed. When you add this…
Persistence in the Third Plane
Like other developmental phenomena, children’s experiences with frustration and persistence reflect their stage of development. For…
Freedom to Interact (or Not) in the Third Plane
While the intrinsic drive to socialize and the supports needed to regulate that drive were prominent in earlier planes of development,…
Freedom of Choice in the Third Plane: 12-18
In some ways, protecting the Freedom of Choice for learners in the Third Plane of development can be the most stressful for parents and…
Relationships and Collaboration in Middle School
If you’re paying attention to the media, you probably think Middle School is going to be overwrought with hyper-dramatic social conflicts…
Mealtime in the Third Plane: 12-18
Except for the occasional glimpse of the backs of their heads emerging from the refrigerator, you might have stopped expecting to see…
Loneliness in the Third Plane
We keep being told that this generation is different. “Kids today” care less. They’re shallow. They’re soft. They don’t know how to deal…
Teacher Talk: Teaching in the Third Plane
Oh, you dear, patient, lovely people, you teachers of adolescents, you bold adventurers blazing a new path for an ever widening…
Parenting in the Third Plane
The stereotypes about teenagers abound: the eye rolling, the cliques, talking-back, faces in their phones. If you only believed what you…