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M3GAN has been a surprise January hit at the box office, as the horror movie has quickly become incredibly popular amongst audiences after a strong social media campaign. The horror movie especially gained traction after the release of its first trailer, which included a tease of that wild dance sequence. What seems to have really attracted viewers to the film is the campy tone, which is very reminiscent of classic, spooky flicks. However, the finished product was meant to be "way gorier" and, apparently, you can blame…

Credit: Shutterstock The teenage years can be among the trickiest times for a parent. You have been used to being your child's voice of reason. Then, all of a sudden, your authority is challenged by their peers, social media and huge developmental changes. But the good news is children aged ten to 12 are still more influenced by…

“In that kind of scenario what you’re doing is avoiding teaching them how to self-regulate their reactions, behaviours, emotions – they’re just not learning that,” he said.“It’s not done to harm the children or because they are bad parents … it’s just unthinking, something done in the moment ... but if you repeat these behaviours over multiple years, as this study has looked at, it can have an increasingly negative effect.”A behavioural physchologist’s recommendationsDr James Donald says there are three key practices that…

Social media giant Meta restricts ad firms from accessing teenagers’ user data starting next month The prominent sites Facebook and Instagram are owned by the social media behemoth Meta, which has tightened data limitations for marketers. The business declared that it will now forbid advertising companies from accessing the data of young consumers. Ads are being targeted to underage users using this data. Advertisers won’t be able to see a user’s gender or the kinds of posts they have participated in as of next month,…

Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook, on Tuesday said it will stop allowing advertisers to target ads at teens based on gender, as it fights accusations that its platforms are harmful to young users.Beginning in February, the social media giant said advertisers, the source of the company's massive revenues, would only be able to use age and location when targeting ads at teens globally.In another break with practice, a teen's previous activity on Meta-owned apps will no longer inform the ads they see, the company said.In…

Drug overdose deaths among adolescents surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, driven overwhelmingly by illicit fentanyl, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Monthly drug overdose deaths nearly tripled among adolescents ages 10 to 19 during the first two years of the pandemic. Deaths rose from 31 in July 2019 to a peak of 87 in May 2021 and then fell to 51 in December 2021."Although deaths appear to have begun declining in late 2021, they are still alarmingly higher than in 2019," the…

Joseph Coelho and Jason Reynolds have plenty in common. Both are award-winning authors who are currently national representatives for children’s literature: earlier this year, Coelho became the UK children’s laureate, while Reynolds holds the equivalent role in the US, the national ambassador for young people’s literature. They are around the same age (Coelho is 42 and Reynolds is 38), both found a love for words through poetry, and both are Black writers passionate about making the white-dominated world of children’s…

A teenager in the UK has become the first person to be treated with a revolutionary new gene editing therapy. The patient's incurable leukemia was effectively cleared using "base-edited" immune T-cells from a donor."This is a great demonstration of how, with expert teams and infrastructure, we can link cutting-edge technologies in the lab with real results in the hospital for patients," explained Waseem Qasim, a University College London researcher working on the project. "It’s our most sophisticated cell engineering so…

The stress of living through pandemic lockdowns has accelerated aging in the brains of teenagers. The effects are similar to those previously observed as a result of violence, neglect, and family dysfunction.Even if you've left adolescence far behind, you might remember that it can be a tumultuous time in terms of thoughts and feelings, and there's a lot of reorganizing that goes on in the brain – even without a global pandemic and the associated lockdowns.A recent study by researchers from Stanford University and the…

Axel Scheffler was an unknown illustrator, working largely for Good Housekeeping magazine, when he received a letter in response to a small exhibition of his work. It was from Emma Thompson, a young actor who had begun to attract attention with TV series such as Fortunes of War and Tutti Frutti. Neatly written in fountain pen, it inquired whether he would accept a commission. “Ken Branagh, my chap, runs his own theatre company,” it explained. He was playing Hamlet to her sister Sophie’s Ophelia and she wanted something to…