Youth Today
Posts By Ruby K. Payne
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3.0KGuest Opinion EssayFirst-generation College Students from Poverty Have Many Hurdles
I have helped many young people with financial support for college, both personally and through my company. This year I am funding...
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Giving Up to Grow Up: Helping Youth Manage Relationship Trade-Offs
How to enable our students and clients to put relationships in perspective and make only those trade-offs that are best for them.
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1.9KGuest Opinion Essay
How Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact Health and Well-being
Take the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire and find out what your ACE score is, and what it means.
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How Can You Deal with Loss, Betrayal, Death and Still Keep Your Hope?
We become boxed in. We give up hope. We may avoid the issue, become very anxious or become addicted to something. We...
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1.4KGuest Opinion Essay
Low-income Kids Need to Be Taught How to Negotiate Life
In under-resourced households, one often has these three choices when it comes to dealing with an issue: flee, fight or flow. But...
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What Interventions Are Critical for Foster Children in Generation K?
Economist and author Noreena Hertz created the name from that generation’s “Hunger Games” icon, Katniss Everdeen, after surveying 1,000 British and American...
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How to Develop Youth in Under-Resourced Neighborhoods
One of the characteristics of under-resourced neighborhoods around the world is the lack of work or intermittent work for males. A brilliant...
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How to Tell If Your Youth Intervention Will Be Effective
Why use ineffective interventions with youth? Why not use interventions that work based on the resources a student has? Why not involve...
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How Do You Teach Kids from Poor Households About Money?
Youths are much more interested in ways to make money than they are in “managing” what they do not have. There is...
