What you need to know about teens and juuling

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SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine Hello to all parents, Happy whichever holiday you celebrate this weekend. We do Easter. This will be the first year I do not think I will be able to coax any children into hunting for eggs. I've been using the Easter-Escalation-technique whereby every year you are buying a slightly nice quality of chocolate egg. But my offspring are now beginning to consider Lindt beneath them. Lindt! I'm pretty sure I hunted for—and devoured—eggs made of leftover Nesquick and bark when I was a kid. In other news, spring approaches and I'm off to finish this pesky book I've been writing, so this newsletter is going to become more of an every other week affair. Will miss you! Keep sharing your parenting stories with me. I'm at belinda.luscombe@time.com or @luscombeland on Twitter. Feel free to follow me, but not necessarily my parenting philosophy. P.S. If you like this newsletter, please pass it on to a friend. And if you got it from a friend, sign up here for email delivery each Friday. You know, more or less. roundup Grandparent envy. It's a thing. It's not wanting to be a grandparent, or even to have a grandparent. It's wanting your kids to have grandparents. And as we start having our children at a later age, our parents are less able to be involved. This is a beautiful essay about what one older mother misses ... "Your babies become the most dramatic way for you, an adult child, to say to your parents, 'Look what I did! Look what I made!'"  TIME A new study has found that one of the results of the Affordable Care Act was that a lot more children were breastfed and that they were breastfed for longer. It's not exactly rocket science: the ACA mandated that health insurers covered lactation support services and equipment.  The benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby are widely acknowledged, so this is a definite win for Obamacare. Indiana University My current pet hate, in case anyone is asking, is Juuling. Not just because that's an absurd way to spell a word, although that doesn't help. It's a new-fangled way of pseudo-smoking that teenagers are taking to. There's no smoke, but there's a truckload of nicotine.  I have, so far, in my own home, confiscated at least five of these toxic totems from my home. But they keeping showing up and vexing me like some infernal splinter. Here's what you need to know. TIME Kids who are on the Autism Spectrum Disorder are much less likely to get vaccinated. And so are their siblings. This is probably because of the persistent myth, for which no proof has ever been found, that autism and vaccines are somehow linked. On the other hand, the link between getting vaccinated and not spreading measles to people who have poor immune systems is rock solid. TIME Somebody asked me the other day if I was a fan of free range parenting. My answer was pretty much "If it works for your family." That answer was probably a little lame, but the truth is there is now not really a consensus on the ONE best way to raise kids. The way we parent is a product of the way we were parented, our personalities, our children's personalities, our circumstances and even sometimes the weather. What is extreme for one family is considered permissive in another. Not to mention that different children call for different approaches from the same set of parents. Here's an interesting essay on why parenting gurus like Benjamin Spock are a thing of the past. The Atlantic. ...and still those Parkland teenagers are in the news. How can you not be impressed by them? Pretty much everyone who takes them on (hello Laura Ingraham!) comes off worse. They've managed to get so many people to focus on and really debate a topic that prior generations have kicked down the road for years. This interesting essay discusses whether today's teenagers  are just smarter than those who came before. Answer: they might be. New York Times PFFT: Parenting from Famous Types Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood and parent of three "Having a mom who worked with Planned Parenthood came in handy for my kids more than once. At the very least, by the time they were in high school, our apartment was where one could always find condoms." To Unsubscribe You have received this e-mail because you are subscribed to this newsletter from TIME.com. Unsubscribe here. Update Email Click here to update your email address. Privacy Policy Please read our Privacy Policy, or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://timeinc.net/subs/privacy/td/policy.html TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. For Further Communication Please contact parents@time.com TIME Customer Service 3000 University Center Drive Tampa, FL 33612-6408 Connect with TIME Find TIME on Facebook Follow TIME on Twitter Subscribe to more TIME Newsletters Get TIME on your Mobile Device Get TIME on your iPad Subscribe to RSS Feed