Other negatives are bullying and fighting. At Groen van Prinstererlyceum, Dani Karremans, a 16-year-old majoring in sciences, believes such pressures are not extreme in the Netherlands. The director of the World Database of Happiness, Prof Ruut Veenhoven, also believes young people are less burdened by an expectation to “be good”. Kate: and then they’ll just see, sometimes they’ll all send it to one specific girl, and see who gets the response [from a girl] the fastest. Englander E, McCoy M. Gender Differences in Peer-Pressured Sexting. In: Wright MF, editor. A Social-ecological Approach to Cyberbullying. Nova Publishing; 2016. pp. 97–104. [ Google Scholar] This opportunity to create visual data provided a mechanism for the participants to draw and quite literally, show and tell their experiences of receiving and sharing images in ways that offered up different understandings than interview talk. The drawing methodology enabled us to explore the specificity of content shared and received as well as capture disappearing media like Snapchat images (which there is often no record of). We also asked young people to creatively respond to any issues raised in discussion or their drawings by presenting top tips for better digital sex education, and they created mind maps, lists and diagrams as we’ll explore. All interview and drawing data is anonymized and pseudonyms are used throughout.

CDC’s Injury Center has information on how you can protect your child from drowning and other common causes of injury. The results chime with a 2016 Dutch Statistics Office study of 4,000 people from 12 to 25, who ranked their happiness at 8.4 out of 10, and a PISA report in 2015 noting that the country – alongside Finland and Switzerland – seemed “able to combine good learning outcomes with highly satisfied students”. Although just over a quarter of the teens said they thought pornography gave an accurate depiction of sex, almost half said they got valuable information from the content they saw, according to the data. You play an important role in keeping your child safe―no matter how old he or she is. Here are a few tips to help protect your child:

Developmental Milestones

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