The cross : What does the telephone represent for teenagers? Barbara Fontar: Undoubtedly the symbol of their emancipation with regard to institutions, family and school, the symbol of their entry into adolescence. Or rather, for some, in pre-adolescence. Most of the time, parents give their child a phone when he arrives in sixth grade, but […]
Children love to disguise the world or, as the adults say, to lie. It’s a way of progressively differentiating dream from reality and appropriating the latter. It also happens to teenagers to lie, but for very different reasons. They have acquired the difference between dream and reality, as well as a certain moral sense. They […]
Léa smoked her first joint in the summer of 2020, while on vacation in Brittany with her grandmother. She was then 15 years old. “I had already been offered it at parties and I had always said no. There, I wanted to try, so, with my childhood friend, we went to buy some on the […]
Not long ago, pushing open the door of a tobacconist meant coming across packets of cigarettes lined up on shelves behind the counter, crossed out with an alert: ” Smoking kills “. From now on, there are also colorful and thin cases, Malabar pink or apple green, which display sweet flavors: “iced grape”, “mango”, “lychee”, […]
“I oscillate between the carrot and the stick” Roselyne Febvre, journalist and author of the book The hummingbird’s heartbeatEditions du Rocher “When I found out that my 15 year old son was smoking cannabis, I didn’t really worry. He assured me that it was commonplace in college. The problem is that he began to smoke […]
The cross : How to explain that a young person switches to addiction? Muriel Lascaux: There is no typical profile or criteria indicating that such a family will be confronted with addictive behavior. There are, however, risk factors, including genetics, and family history. There are also individual factors: impulsiveness, anxiety, difficulty making friends… Some personalities […]
This dark winter morning, a woman calls my office to receive her son. He is in his first year of engineering school and for several days he has not been able to go back to school, refuses to leave his room, frozen by anxiety and in the grip of suicidal thoughts. When I tell her […]
The cross : Is it more difficult for a young man to seduce in the #MeToo era? Christine Castelain-Meunier: With #MeToo, the seduction market has become more complicated for them. This vast movement of debate on consent has pushed them to ask themselves questions that are sometimes new to them, including this one: what do […]
La Croix: What is the influence of sleep on learning? Stephanie Mazza : Sleep plays a dual role. It allows us to be available to learn and it consolidates our knowledge. A child or adolescent who has slept well is more receptive and more curious. It will be easier for him to receive new information, […]
During the week, Gaspard, 17, goes to bed “at 11:30 p.m.”. After dinner he “finishes (his) homework “ where “relax” by watching videos, series or by going on social networks. “I often stay on my phone until bedtime. But at night, I turn it off,” assures this terminal student. The next morning, the young Parisian […]