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This has been driving us insane for the past couple of months. We've been getting messages saying we're near the data plan limit on one of the 3 iphones we have. Last month my daughter went over her data plan 3 days before the end of the cycle - we thought maybe it was because she was streaming music in the car. Ok, she stopped that. The plan rolled over at the beginning of this month, and we have 21 days left in the billing cycle. At 1:31 am we got an email saying she was at 2825 MB, and at 2:35 am she was over her data plan at 3082 MB - and SHE WAS SLEEPING. This is absolutelly ridiculous. I'm calling Customer Support this morning to complain - I see huge packets of data being sent by "phone" and just don't understand what's happening.
Sorry to hear about the issues. Firstly what kind of device does the person have (Android, iPhone windows phone etc.) ?
The times you are seeing is the time where the data used is being sent to the system. It may sometimes take a few hours, and some times it may take 2-5 days for the data to accurately display.
You mentioned she used to stream music in the car, and since then has stopped.. Does she stream while she does other activities? If so, how long? That can be a huge factor.
Another possibility is that she may have applications running in the back ground. Simply going to the home screen does not close the applications. So if for example you are using Safari and simply press the Home button, Safari WILL continue to consume your data.
To close the apps on iPhone, double tap the home button > press and hold a application in the gray bar until it begins to wiggle > select the red button that appears on the app. That will close them on iPhone.
On Android, go to Settings > Applications > Running Apps to close all open applications.
It is amazing to me that this is still a problem. I have been calling in to customer service every month since July 2012. Why? Because no one still knows how to solve this issue. Their "solution" is to just turn my cellular data off while at home. It isnt supposed to be using my data anyway when I'm on wifi and seriously what a pain. AT&T blames Apple and Apple blames AT&T- the sad part is, who is the one getting the raw deal.... Oh yeah "raises hand" remember me, I'm the one paying for your service .... The CUSTOMER. Horrible. (Oh, and from doing some more research, they can't blame just Apple anymore- this is happening with all types of phones they have their data service for.)
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It is amazing to me that this is still a problem. I have been calling in to customer service every month since July 2012. Why? Because no one still knows how to solve this issue. Their "solution" is to just turn my cellular data off while at home. It isnt supposed to be using my data anyway when I'm on wifi and seriously what a pain. AT&T blames Apple and Apple blames AT&T- the sad part is, who is the one getting the raw deal.... Oh yeah "raises hand" remember me, I'm the one paying for your service .... The CUSTOMER. Horrible. (Oh, and from doing some more research, they can't blame just Apple anymore- this is happening with all types of phones they have their data service for.)
the decision to utilize wifi or cellular is made at the device level, and at the app level, no carrier has the ability to force a phone to utilize cell over wifi. The switch back to cellular is automagic, if your wifi connection is bouncing the phone will switch and stay until the wifi connection becomes stable. By design a cell phone when it goes into hibernation mode will turn off the wifi radio if not plugged into a charger., if you have an app or apps in the background that auto update information - like email, facebook autocheck, twitter or any one of the other thousands of apps out there that multi-task and run in the background they will use cell data - this is universal.
As an experiment I took a iphone and a HTC Inspire that was not in use by anyone in the company and reset it back to factory defaults, nothing installed outside of what the base factory apps
Iphone - reset 10/12/2012
Sent - 40.6 MB
Recieved - 189 MB
HTC Inspire - reset 10/12/2012
Sent - 6.4MB
Recieved - 37.4 MB
That said, it's shameful that ATT and Apple are passing the buck on this.
@harryspar wrote:
@wingrider wow! That is a big difference. What is all that data from? ICS Android devices break down which apps sent how many MB on a nice chart.l It would be cool if someone could do something similar on those Iphones.
That said, it's shameful that ATT and Apple are passing the buck on this.
since it was a stock iphone with no apps and at default I would hazard a guess it is the Icloud functionality, since the cries of "excess data usage" are non-carrier specific would als my a safe guess that the fault is not in the carrier, but in the device itself.
So your last statement is inaccurate - Apple is passing the buck, it is no wonder why they backed off on parts purchases that are used in the manufacturer of the iphone 5, after initial sales, the numbers have been pretty depressed, and the rumor of the Iphone 5S coming outin the summer, maybe they will get that one right.
(Never mind, I made a mistake. Does anyone know if there's a way to delete your own post? I seem to only be able to edit.)
I RECEIVED A TEXT THAT SAID I have used 100% of my data. And my overage is 48. 48 what? MB or GB
Long time customer with AT&T: my problem is with the way AT&T handles data charges
1. There should be a message to turn off cellular data option along with the "nearing limits messaging". After THREE MONTHS of going round & round with AT&T, it was finally explained why I was being charged (even in wi-fi environments). It is a factual matter that many customers are not aware of this; nor being told this when calling into cust service. I was advised to turn off background data and turn off data enabled. However, the 1st rep I spoke with as couple months ago just said to be sure I was in wi-fi environment; I did (got overages during last day of billing cycle). The 2nd rep spoken with last month told me to shut the phone off at night (as most of the data was tallied around 12 midnight); I did (got overages during the last 2 days of the billing cycle). The 3rd month & the 3rd rep (last 2 reps were supervisors) was the first time anyone advised of the background data usage, etc. I'd say that's pretty shady customer service, at best.
2. Furthermore, there is no way to sync your real-time data actual used/documented on my phone against the billing statement. AT&T system updates during the night (it seems around after midnight) and they roll up a cumulative total. It NEVER matches to what my actual data says I've used within the same period. How is a consumer to know if AT&T billing calculations are accurate? This is false/inaccurate billing, in every form, when the statement says used 3000 kbs at 12:01 AM & phone is OFF at that time, with no actual usage. If the AT&T cannot confirm where the data is coming from (they say due to privacy issues), then, why should I, the account holder/payer/consumer, believe the data is accurate??!!! AT&T, either bill according to my actual usage or prove where you get your figures from! [Per Guidelines: Keep it Relevant and Appropriate]....
This entry so hits the nail on the head. I've had laptop data connect for over 5 yrs. from AT&T. I had the old unlimited service and never came close to going over to 5G until around Dec. of 2012, I went over and my service was suspended. So much for unlimited, I guess I missed the notice and the fact that I was paying $60/mo for something that didn't exist, had I not missed the notice, I could have been paying $50/mo since approx 2009, do the math on what that cost me. After being reinstated, I looked at my data usage more carefully. I haven't streamed a movie since summer of 2012, I don't download any music, I get perhaps a photo via email once per week, in fact I felt my time at the laptop had decreased, but instead my data amount has increased from my normal approx. 3G per month to right up to the top, with many irritating warnings that my data is close to overage-so just add the extra 1G for $10. This present month tops them all, I'm about 10 days into my billing period and have about 1 1/2 G left for 20 days! And I've been avoiding laptop use!!! So, where is all this data usage coming from??? I've chatted and phoned for advice and I don't get any good answer for why my data is being eaten up so fast. A supervisor told me to install AT&T communication manager so I could track my data more closely, well dah, I have to have communication manager to launch my connection and I clearly have been watching my data usage being sucked away for reasons unknown. I'm stuck though because of a very limited selection of internet services in my rural area. I'm thinking maybe I should go back to using my old modem that I changed about a year ago, when I was only receiving 3G speeds vs 4G. It seems as though all internet services have us by the throat-there's not much competition, no one is offering anything much better than the next guy. My alternative is yuck, dial-up. I'm glad I'm not the only one realizing the same problem-I thought I was maybe going on-line in my sleep.
Where did you get AT&T communication manager? I don't see it in the app store.
@datafoobar wrote:
Where did you get AT&T communication manager? I don't see it in the app store.
Becasue it is not a app for a phone
I probably posted my complaint in the wrong area, as mine was regarding my laptop with use of an AT&T Momentum modem. Communication Manager gets installed when you plug in the USB device, as well as setting up the whole connection to your laptop. I'm still wondering why I'm going through much data and am also investigating some other options outside of AT$T.
My data usage has increased dramatically over the last month. I called and got a credit for May which was great. I started closing the icons at the bottom when you double click and used wifi as much as possible then the last two weeks of June I went over again even getting charged $20 for two more overages. My billing cycle started on July the 5th and I started turning data off and on the 7th at 11:52 a.m. I had gotten a notice saying I'd used 65% of my 2 gig, and I had turned data back on for a very short while. I have even turned the notifications off and deleted several apps. I can not afford this and may have to get rid of this phone all together. There has to be a major "glitch" or scam taking place. [Per Guidelines: Keep it Relevant and Appropriate]. Please make it stop. The same thing happened to my wife's phone/plan a while back but mysteriously stopped when we added more data and 3gig was the lowest plan and now I feel as though I am being forced to move up my plan for more data.
Yes it is wrong. This needs to stop.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District frequently failed to report teacher misconduct to state credentialing authorities and took too long to investigate and punish teachers, according to a report by the California state auditor released Thursday.
The 57-page audit made four main recommendations to the nation's second-largest school district. But it noted that state laws governing teacher dismissal contribute to the problem of prolonged investigations and expense in firing teachers.
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A native of Walsall, England, Goldie was born to a Scottish-Jamaican couple and put up for adoption. He bounced around child-care homes and several sets of foster parents during his childhood years, and became fascinated with the rise of hip-hop, breakdancing, and graffiti art. By 1986, he was involved with breakdancing crews around his home of Wolverhampton; after making several trips to London for all-day breakdancing events (and to see hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa), Goldie appeared in the English documentary on graffiti art called Bombing. He also spent time in New York and Miami (working in a market stall selling customized gold teeth), but returned to England by 1988.
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Pittsburgh man arrested in slaying of girlfriend's son
Michael Monroe charged in death of Dereck Frye, police say
Police in western Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of his girlfriend's son over the weekend.
Forty-three-year-old Michael Monroe is charged with criminal homicide, terroristic threats and simple assault in Sunday's death of 22-year-old Dereck Frye.
Authorities allege in a criminal complaint that Monroe argued with his girlfriend after he came home early Sunday to their Fineview residence.
Police allege that he choked her, then left the bedroom but returned carrying a bloody butcher knife and threatened her. She said she fled but saw her son upstairs unresponsive, and he was pronounced dead at the scene Officers spotted Monroe's car later that afternoon and arrested him.
Court documents don't list an attorney for Monroe, who was being held in the Allegheny County jail overnight.


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A Somerset Village
Bradford on Tone is situated midway between Taunton and Wellington on the north side of the A38. Its position is such that both north and south coasts are about one hour's drive away, giving access to seaside towns such as Porlock, and Minehead to the north and Exmouth and Seaton to the south. Also within easy reach are the beautiful areas of Exmoor.
Further afield, there is direct access by train from Taunton station (5 miles away) to London, the Midlands, and Scotland.
Bradford has a number of enthusiastic groups, including the Bradford Players, short mat bowls, an art group, computer group, coffee mornings and bell ringers, also an annual flower show.
Nothing has been found so far to indicate that the habitation in the Bradford parish area was affected by the Roman occupation of Britain. However, there was communication between surrounding habitations, and earlier in the 20th century one could still see traces of ancient British trackways, one of which forded the river Tone upstream from where the present bridge stands. It was from this broad ford that Bradford got its name.
After the Norman conquest, Bradford was included in the Domesday Book as Bradeford. There were 5 serfs,19 villagers and 7 cottagers with 6 ploughs, a mill of 10 shillings rent, 30 acres of meadow,10 acres of pasture and 72 acres of wood. The oldest building in the village is the Church. There was probably a Church in Norman times. There may have been one in Saxon Times, the village being owned by the Bishops of Winchester.
During the fifteenth century, the road system in the parish was much improved when the fords in in the Village and at Hele were replaced with stone bridges. Tradition says that they were built by the monks and one can only surmise which monks they were.


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New Year's Eve is a night to be remembered, so you may as well choose something super chic and memorable to wear. This season leather pencil skirts are everywhere I mean literally everywhere, from the runways to street style blogs. Especially colored leatehr is huge this season. This deep burgundy color offers a welcome update to the standard black options out there.
With their versatility, they can be worn in the office to a first date or on festive occasions. Doesn't the knee gazing length contributes to a sophisticated vibe especially with the caged heels?
I'm ringing in New Years Eve in style with this beautiful high waisted burgundy leather pencil skirt to reflect the magic of the event and the fresh new moments to come.
Cheers to a happy 2016- I know a great year and wonderful moments ahead are waiting for me :-)


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The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum's immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days.
This description is from Joel, the Museum's President and Curator of Gems and Minerals. He's chosen spectacular objects from the Museum's mineralogy collection, which includes some of the most rare and fascinating mineral specimens in the world, that we'll be sharing here – and at 100.hmns.org– throughout the year.
Zoisite (var. tanzanite)
Merelani Hills near Arusha, Umba Valley, Tanzania
This magnificent, near-flawless crystal of tanzanite (the gemstone variety of the mineral zoisite) was found in Tanzania in 1991. As seen here, the specimen is an exceptional example of trichroism, whereby the same crystal exhibits three distinctly different colors, depending on the viewing angle.
Marvel at the world's most spectacular collection of natural mineral crystals in the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
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Part 1: Getting off the treadmill
Part 2: Do high schools squash the joy of learning?
Editorial: The achievement treadmill
It's no secret that Palo Altans are concerned about negative stress and its impact on the mental health of high school youth. Local teen suicides in recent years have propelled this issue to the surface of public consciousness and generated numerous committees, forums, programs, coalitions and initiatives to address it.
What has been less noticed and discussed, however, are the burgeoning mental health problems that manifest for many youth in college. Miranda Chatfield (Gunn High '08) and Trevor Bisset (Palo Alto High '05) -- profiled in Part I of this series -- are but two examples of the high price paid for running too hard on the high school treadmill. Both teens suffered emotional problems serious enough to require counseling and a year off from college.
"We need to own this problem as a community," Leif Erickson, director of the nonprofit Youth Community Service (YCS), told the Weekly.
While many stressed-out students hold it together in high school, the emotional toll can surface in college, which carries its own set of stresses and lack of home-front scaffolding. The emotional challenges in college can range from a feeling of being lost to serious depression and everything in-between, according to youth experts.
"I put all this pressure on myself to get to this point (Pomona College), and I thought I could relax and have all the answers. ... But then I had the whole world in front of me, and it was much bigger than the college selection process. ... If the wheels are going to come off, it will be in college. If you're going to crash and burn, it's going to be in college. That's absolutely what happened to me," Bisset said.
Stanford University School of Education Professor and psychologist William Damon believes that a sense of purpose -- intrinsic, sustaining and noble -- provides built-in protective factors against depression and anxiety disorders. But his research shows that the vast majority of students entering college have not yet developed a clear sense of purposeful pursuit.
"And that's why all of these colleges, all of them, can't keep up with the counseling services that are being demanded. Kids are flocking to the counseling services at all of these colleges because a lot of the kids frankly aren't prepared. They're not going there for the right reasons," Damon said. "They've accomplished a goal, but the goal isn't the kind of goal that is very sustaining. And then what?"
Damon believes it's important for young people to enter college with one or more purposes they are pursuing.
"The purpose can be further defined, be made more concrete or can even be changed while in college," he said. But without an understanding of what they want to accomplish in college and why, they are at risk.
According to Damon, some kids will make the transition to college fine, even without a sense of purpose upon entering, because "they'll get into an exciting class or find some inspirational mentor." This will connect them to important underlying reasons to be in college, and from there a sense of purpose will develop.
"In our research, we're finding significant movement, especially in the early 20s," he told the Weekly.
But too many college students do not find that foothold and begin to burn out, grow anxious, feel lost and empty, get depressed, and suffer other mental health disorders, according to youth experts and multiple accounts in Psychology Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications.
Stanford Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising and Palo Alto parent Julie Lythcott-Haims has given a lot of thought to this issue,
"Those of us who work with young people today sense that something is different, and perhaps drastically different ... as compared to as recently as 10 years ago. Depending on our vantage point, we have different senses of the cause and the outcome. Based on what I've read and observed, I'm intrigued by the notion that many of today's high-achieving students seem to accomplish that high achievement at the cost of something even more important, which is their sense of self or their sense of purpose. We have to ask ourselves, if that is possibly true, 'Why? What are we doing or what are we not doing that one can grow to what was once the age of adulthood without actually having formed a sense of self that enables one to step out into adulthood and function on one's own joyfully, able to cope?'"
Psychologist Madeline Levine writes in "The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids": "There is a growing awareness that, in spite of tremendous external accomplishment, many kids are both dreadfully unhappy and impaired in their ability to function autonomously ... . Heavily dependent on their 'public' success for a sense of self, many of these youngsters have little in the way of authentic purpose in their lives, leaving a void where conscience, generosity and connection should be."
A January New York Times article, "Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen," reported on troubling results from an annual survey begun 25 years ago, "the latest evidence of what (campus counselors) see every day in their offices -- students who are depressed, under stress and using psychiatric medication, prescribed even before they came to college."
According to Damon, recent studies show that many college-age youth display serious signs of depression. Colleges are also concerned about a rise in suicide risks in recent years.
Chatfield reported that she "saw high levels of drinking, high levels of stress and anxiety" while at Cornell. In addition, a number of her Palo Alto friends and acquaintances had a difficult time adjusting to college; many transferred, dropped out entirely or stopped out for a year like she did. Bisset also described how "so many kids in college fall into depression, fall into drug abuse, various forms of escapism."
According to Denise Pope, a lecturer with the Stanford School of Education and co-founder with Levine of the organization Challenge Success, college students used to seek counseling mainly for relationship issues; now academic issues have taken the lead, and the complaints are often more serious in nature.
"There are levels of depression and anxiety never seen before," she said. "The systems were not set up for this."
All colleges are experiencing this rise in mental health challenges, not just elite institutions or affluent populations, Pope said.
Lythcott-Haims confirms that the Stanford admissions office, like others nationwide, is grappling with the challenges presented by these mental health trends, which affect appetites for learning along with other important aspects of campus life.
"This year I participated in a conversation about how to ask (an admissions application) question that would in fact elicit whether that student has that sense of purpose. ... It will be interesting to see if the tweak of our questions yields on that," she said. The new question was: "What matters to you, and why?"
In fall 2006, trends at Stanford and throughout the country led Stanford Provost John Etchemendy to convene Stanford's Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Task Force.
"Increasingly, we are seeing students struggling with mental health concerns ranging from self-esteem issues and developmental disorders to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-mutilation behaviors, schizophrenia and suicidal behavior," Etchemendy said in his charge to the task force.
The Task Force report, issued in 2008, said there was "abundant evidence" that today's students, at Stanford and elsewhere, suffer from more emotional problems and mental illnesses than earlier generations.
The report indicated surprise to find that emotional distress on campus wasn't limited to students who were struggling academically. Students with stellar academic records also were susceptible.
"We have students, who, no matter what else is going on in their lives, know how to get those grades, and know how to do very well academically, and so it masks that they may be struggling emotionally," said Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, a member of the Task Force. "They may have no friends. They may not have a sense of belonging. They may feel that no one in the community cares about them. It's important for us to take away the blinders that keep us from seeing their distress."
The report concluded: "A shift in cultural norms and expectations is needed. The University is committed to fostering students' development through learning, personal growth and success, and yet the definition of success cannot be limited to academic achievement alone. The Task Force believes that it is necessary to critically examine expectations surrounding academic achievement and to assess their impact on students' mental health and well-being. Qualifying students for 'personal success and direct usefulness in life' as outlined by the Founding Grant means that a student's academic achievement may not be the most significant measure of qualification and preparation."
Broadening definitions of success beyond academic achievement, along with greater support systems, as recommended by the Stanford Task Force, would help many college students achieve greater well-being. However, Damon believes the process needs to begin earlier, especially as a counterbalance to the pressure to achieve more superficial goals.
"If, during the early years of strenuous effort and high achievement, they had found purposes that went deeper than the grades and awards, they would have hit the ground running when they entered college. They would have been eager to gain more knowledge and skills in order to help them better accomplish their chosen purposes," he writes in his book, "The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life."
When it comes to fostering that earlier sense of purpose, parents have a large supporting role to play, according to Damon. Yet, modern parenting styles may in fact work against the normal, healthy formation of identity and purpose.
Many of the students interviewed for this article spoke of parental influence in creating pressures to succeed along a path defined by elite colleges and material affluence, in part because that is what worked for them. This mirrors what psychologists and other youth experts have observed.
"We can be myopic when we insist that high grades, well-known schools, or particular professions are the royal road to happiness. A life well lived takes many forms. ... (W)hen we insist that our children be gratified by the same things that have gratified us, then we limit the roads they can travel on, roads that may be closer to their own hearts," Levine writes. The tendency to focus on and overly value external measures of accomplishment "is directly related to high rates of depression and substance abuse," she says, and also to "a general sense that living can be unbearably difficult."
Bisset sees parental achievements as creating strong pressures on youth.
"Unlike the East Coast, a lot of parents here made themselves. ... There's a lot of grit, a lot of ingenuity. There's a lot of American Dream stories with immigrants. ... My dad is one of them," he said.
According to Bisset, this milieu leads kids to measure their self-worth by their ability to integrate within an affluent, entrepreneurial society.
Gunn math teacher Daisy Renazco says that parents, friends, TV and newspapers often give the impression that the only path to success is via a top school and top job.
"The Stanford connections in Palo Alto are strong," she said. The kids also witness Google and Facebook dominating the local landscape, both high-powered companies hiring grads from top schools.
"The kids see that and feel pressure," she said.
George Kadifa, Paly '09 and current UC Berkeley junior, noted the bias against risk that develops from material wealth: "In Palo Alto we have it good. Our parents are affluent. People are trying to preserve this -- they want the same thing for their children. The result is that they have created a society adverse to risk. They are trying to replicate success along a rigid path. They are scared to have their kids fail -- but look at Steve Jobs and other entrepreneurs who failed along the way. It's ironic that a city built on taking risks is not prepared to let the kids fail. And that's a problem."
"Palo Alto has a lot of cautious parents who don't let their kids fall down. They lose their resiliency if you don't let them make mistakes," said Sereena Ojakian, Paly '07 and current senior at Southern Oregon University. "The whole point of being 8-18 is you run around doing stupid stuff, and you learn from it."
Parents sometimes try to have it both ways, telling their kids, "Don't stress out about school," but also "Hurry up, you need to go to tutoring, college-prep classes, community service to get those hours, whatever it takes to look good on the college application," several local parents said. For a kid, it's hard to know what to make of that.
And some parents outright push.
"I felt like there were a lot of young adults who were afraid of their parents, of their disapproval," Chatfield said. "(One parent) just wanted her daughter to take more and more classes, even if (she) was at her breaking point. Her mom was saying, 'You have to take all these APs; I don't care how much you sleep. I just want you to get your work done, and I'll do anything so you can do this.'"
Stanford's Lythcott-Haims believes parent behavior is at the core of youths' difficulty with developing self, autonomy and purpose. She described many students she sees as "failure-deprived" and attributes this to overprotective parenting styles that are "very present in the details of a child's life."
"We protect them from all that we fear is out there. I can only imagine that that's got to have something to do with a fragile self developing. ... It used to be that helicopter parents and the over-involved parents were the outliers. ... But every year there were more and more and now it's just normal," she said.
Lythcott-Haims and other college deans describe many college students today as "teacups" (beautiful, but quite delicate) or "hothouse flowers" (exquisite under the right conditions but cannot survive in the elements).
"I think some time ago ... parents started to be more involved with ensuring outcomes for their children," she said. "Parents began to change, and for good reasons, trying to be more helpful, useful, leverage their own expertise, connections, life experience to help place their children in better outcomes. But a line was crossed and parents started to do things for kids that kids should do for themselves," she said.
Lythcott-Haims refers to many youth who have lived a "checklisted childhood," with that checklist set by adults. When they come to Stanford, she tells freshmen, "There is no checklist ... We don't have that for you any longer."
"I want that to feel liberating and exhilarating, but in fact I think for many it is frightening because they are so good at mastering the checklist of increasingly difficult expectations. But give them a blank page, and they're often lacking in the wherewithal to design, create, imagine," she said.
It's often hard for parents of high school students to know when to back off.
"It feels like we're in an arms race. We parents are trying to keep up with the parents around us," Lythcott-Haims said. "We don't want to provide any fewer opportunities for our kids, so more activities, harder classes seem to be the path to success. And those seem to be the kids who get into the colleges we'd all be proud to send our kids to. But I think as parents we have to ask, 'At what cost?' We do all of this, and we deposit them at the doors of the dream college, but if they are not capable of taking those steps without us, what have we done? We've actually set them up for these extreme let-downs."
Lythcott-Haims sees some of this dynamic play out when parents hover and linger after bringing their freshmen to college.
"The implicit message is 'I don't think you can do this without me. ... You're that fragile, or you're that incapable, or you're that unfamiliar with the workings of life ... to do for yourself, to put your hands in the dirt and do it," she said.
Palo Alto Board of Education President Melissa Baten-Caswell also is concerned about the tight connection many parents have with their children, and how that impacts student stress.
"Parents are more involved in kids' lives these days. Many kids are not allowed to grow up until later. By the time they enter college, many haven't had a chance to practice. They are so ill-equipped to be on their own," she said.
"We have to help parents see that holding our kids too close is not allowing them to become healthy, successful adults," she said.
Damon writes: "Young people do not wish to be shielded from hard realities. They wish to learn how to accomplish their dreams in the face of such realities."
Damon's work on the importance of purpose in youth development has generated numerous positive strategies for fostering a culture of purpose within families, schools and communities. Others interviewed by the Weekly have recommendations on this as well.
Starting with families, Damon's research has identified several critical things that parents can do to foster a sense of purpose in their children:
Listen closely for the spark, then fan the flame. Take advantage of regular opportunities to open a dialog
Be open-minded and supportive of the sparks of interest expressed
Convey your own sense of purpose and the meaning you derive from your work
Impart wisdom about the practicalities of life
Introduce children to potential mentors
Encourage an entrepreneurial attitude (you can do it!)
Nurture a positive outlook
Instill in children a feeling of agency, linked to responsibility (whatever you do in this world matters).
Damon also recommends regular household chores to teach children that they are needed, that others are counting on them, that what they do matters to the whole. Yet many youth are routinely excused from doing regular tasks within the family, due to busy schedules, high stress levels and parental notions that perhaps the child's time is better spent studying or doing extracurricular activities. This misses a key opportunity to foster a sense of purpose, Damon says.
Levine agrees: "Worrying that kids won't be able to maintain their grades if they are expected to straighten their room, set the table, take out the garbage, and do whatever else is appropriate for their age and needed by the family ... is a sign of misplaced priorities. ... (A)cademic competence is only one part of what children need to learn in order to be productive, emotionally healthy, good people."
It's not just up to parents, however.
"Even for children with optimal parenting, the broader society plays a decisive role," Damon writes.
Adult mentors outside the family can be critical to broadening a child's horizons and supporting them in the process of exploration and reflection, according to many youth experts.
"Kids need three healthy adults at least -- besides their parents -- mentoring them through the teen years," said Cait Black, Menlo Park Trinity Episcopal Church youth director.
When it comes to schools fostering purpose, Damon advocates addressing the "why" question with students about all that they do.
"Every part of the curriculum should be taught with the 'Why?' question squarely in the foreground," he writes. Why do people read literature or go to a Shakespeare play? Why do mathematicians labor over proofs that students must learn?
For those who worry about taking time away from subject matter to explore these questions, Damon believes finding the path to purpose, even if it appears to take time away from more immediate measurable progress on standardized tests, leads to the more worthwhile result in the long run -- a love of learning for learning's sake.
Teachers and other professionals interviewed by the Weekly agreed with Damon, although recognizing, as did Damon, the tremendous pressures teachers feel to keep up with material required by the state and subject to standardized testing.
Many suggested that schools could use existing classes to teach students about balance, self-care and stress reduction. Living Skills class -- a one-semester requirement for graduation -- topped the list.
At Gunn, a program new this fall seeks to change the campus culture in ways that encourage greater self-knowledge and resilience. Called "Sources of Strength," it trains and empowers students within a peer-to-peer structure, along with selected "caring adults," to identify and cultivate internal and external sources of strength.
In all that schools do, Pope emphasizes the importance of "deep engagement in learning." She advocates rigorous, project-based, collaborative approaches combined with good pedagogy to accomplish this.
"The feeling of being engaged enables you to get connected to a sense of purpose," she said. "It all flows towards positive outcomes from there."
Many interviewed by the Weekly advocated broadening notions of success in families and in schools, in addition to taking the spotlight off the college resume. Several suggested dropping the phrase, "You need to do this if you want to get into a good college."
"We need to make it a community responsibility to open kids' eyes to more diverse possibilities," Baten Caswell said.
Levine writes: "There are schools besides the Ivies, fulfilling work besides the professions, and worthwhile activities that are never practiced at private clubs. While there is nothing wrong with being a tennis-playing Harvard cardiologist ... there is a world of options that we need to let our children know are just as interesting, just as valid, and just as valuable."
Stanford also is working to change its campus culture. One new program is the Resilience Project, which operates via website videos depicting the struggles, failures and rejections of members of the Stanford community and the lessons, opportunities and coping skills that emerged from those experiences.
"We are trying to be intentional about talking about resilience, and the value of failure, flailing, disappointments, disillusionment. All these things happen in the normal course, and there's nothing wrong with you if those things happen. You just pick yourself up and figure it out, and oftentimes you learn great lessons as a result," Lythcott-Haims said.
Stanford is also exploring a new program called "Stanford 101," which would include an examination of "why am I here and how do I make the most of it," and other topics related to purpose, as part of giving students more opportunity for structured reflection, according to Lythcott-Haims.
Community efforts are also important.
"The closest thing to a prerequisite for a culture of purpose is a sense of community," Damon writes.
Project Safety Net is one such effort to build a sense of community and purpose around the well-being of Palo Alto youth. Launched in 2009 in response to student suicides, Project Safety Net is a broad-based coalition of community partners, including the school district, focused on suicide prevention and promotion of youth resilience and health. A key component of Project Safety Net's efforts has been the "Developmental Assets" framework, which seeks to measure and support the strengths and skills youth need to thrive. Last year more than 4,000 Palo Alto students were surveyed on the 40 "developmental assets" as well as indicators that they are thriving or at-risk. The schools and other agencies are using this survey data to provide a framework for efforts to improve youth social-emotional health and connectedness.
Community leaders who work with youth share Damon's passion for purpose and incorporate it into their program with great intentionality. Youth Community Service (YCS) is one example, offering youth service-learning opportunities that stress self-efficacy, positive emotional and behavioral health, along with reflection time and exploration of the "why" questions, according to YCS director Erickson.
Scouting and YMCA programs also are tailored to helping youth develop a strong sense of self and purpose, according to several Palo Alto parents and students.
Organized religion emphasizes the importance of finding purpose through their youth programs.
"We build community so that kids have a sense of connection to each other. ... The more you are connected to others, the more you feel your place in the world matters. That gives you a sense of purpose, a sense of common purpose," said Palo Alto First Congregational Senior Pastor Dave Howell.
Howell seeks to offer kids a safe space to figure out who they are and what gifts they bring to the world apart from school and other achievements. Programs for teens range from service projects to musical-theater productions to cultural-exchange trips to camp-counseling opportunities; they emphasize service, reflection, the inherent worth of each individual, the importance of continued growth, and how everyone can contribute in their own valuable way to the community.
George Kadifa grew up valuing the strong sense of community at First Congregational, a place "where everyone cares about you, pays attention to you, and it's completely safe to fail." He learned his main job was to find his calling, which he said was "very liberating because it offered an alternative to the pressures to make money and pursue status."
Creating other opportunities to contribute to community is important. Volunteering for local nonprofit organizations is promoted through school requirements and transcript recognition incentives. Some take heart in the fact that youth are spending more time in community service than ever before, but others question the motives and the real lessons learned. For many students, community service has become just another exercise in resume building.
"I tell kids: 'Yes, this might meet your community-service hours requirement, this might be something you put on an application somewhere, but if that's the only reason you're doing it, then you lose the joy of it,'" Howell said.
Pope urges adults "to love the child before you, not the child you hope to see."
Bisset illustrated the type of emotional safety found in this approach in his vision for the future.
"I think there should be an environment where a kid is comfortable saying 'I'm scared,' 'I'm not confident,' 'I don't know if going to Stanford is the best thing for me,'" he said. "I think the ability to just say that, 'I'm not perfect, and I'm just scared about not being perfect,' would probably go a long way to reducing the suicides that we see and the stress and the feeling of loneliness and helplessness."
Chatfield said she and many other young people have not felt that sense of safety to explore their fears and vulnerabilities.
"I didn't go to counseling for a long time. ... I resisted because that's failure; that's giving in to something ... that's admitting defeat," Chatfield said. Many youth fail to take advantage of the many resources offered for this reason, she noted.
As Lythcott-Haims suggests, adults need to help set the stage for youth to see that failing and flailing are nothing to be afraid of, will not be frowned upon or stigmatized, and in fact, are important to growth. Many other youth experts agree.
Damon concludes "The Path to Purpose" with advice to all adults on fostering purpose in youth: "We can offer them possibilities that fire their imaginations, guidance that encourages their highest aspirations, support that helps them realize their aspirations, and a cultural climate that inspires rather than demoralizes them. There is no young person who cannot be uplifted by this kind of attention."
And sometimes students just need to take a break to sort it all out. During her year off from Cornell, Chatfield was able to "take time away from academics for once to figure out who I was. ... It sounds clichÈ ... but there's not a lot of room for personal growth at Gunn. "
During this time, Chatfield lived at home and worked at Peet's, where she enjoyed learning about small businesses and their role in community building, something that intrigues her as an Urban Regional Studies major. Chatfield also found time to run and cook, two hobbies previously sidelined by the academic priorities.
This fall Chatfield is back at Cornell with newfound purpose and perspective.
"I'm excited to be going back," she told the Weekly. One of the lessons she takes with her is that "to really accomplish anything meaningful, you should be doing it to please yourself."
She now values "a personal sense of identity and self and agency, that you can have a positive impact in the world."
Bisset also took a year off from college between his sophomore and junior years. He credits Pomona with facilitating his recovery through counseling and other hands-on resources, which prompted him to ask a lot of questions about what he should be doing and why.
"I learned that I'm great when I'm busy with something I care about," Bisset said. He tuned into his passions for the natural world and decided to pursue an environmental-analyst degree upon his return to Pomona.
Bisset now works as a water analyst for the Indio Water Authority and plans to get a water law degree at the University of Texas.
"You couldn't offer me a job at Goldman Sachs and take me away from this," he said.
Bisset spent his last two years at Pomona enjoying the process of accomplishing at a high level with a heavy academic load.
"I was just motivated by working for something concrete that mattered to me. It was transformative," he said.
Bisset said that "purpose did more for me than therapy, than medications, than anything ever possibly could have."
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Finding purpose: a bigger job than before
Profiles of purposeful youth
Teens, school staff unite against stress
Why college feels less stressful
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Each year Australia's Big Day Out sells out increasingly fast; this year, the Gold Coast leg of the touring festival sold out in around three hours. The increase in the festival's popularity over the last few years has been rapid, and along with it has come a great shift in the typical BDO-goer – these days much less the music fan and more the beer connoisseur. I'm not sure what you'd call these people in Britain, but I'm sure 'wanker' (bogan?) would do; let's just say my train ride there made me aware of what I was in for (sitting next to a bunch of drunk Australian teens, all painted bodies and fluoro outfits, with not-so-brilliant senses of humour). Still, Gold Coast Parklands offers a nice environment for a festival like this: plenty of grassy knolls, the odd tree, and one pretty killer line-up of bands.
Australian electro act Midnight Juggernauts play a good set in the early afternoon, even if they're undeniably better suited to a club environment. Their Gary Numan-like electro swagger has shot them to huge popularity, and they've got the goods to back it up, expressing a bed-headed aloofness while retaining a good energy for this time of day.
Dizzee Rascal fills the Boiler Room (a big tent, home to the a lot of the dance and electronic acts of the day) easily at 2pm. Armed with a DJ and another MC it's a positively electric experience, his vocals coming in as a crisp and punctuated as ever on top of those beats – those beats! – and that bass, good grief, it sounds revolutionary coming out of these enormous speakers as he moves his way through material old and new, a couple of remixes, and a terrific version of 'Pussyole'. It really fits the crowd and this festival, the audience of which certainly leans towards the mainstream side of things. It's an aggressive style of hip-hop in some ways, but emphasizes fun more than anything; or at least that's how it seems from this set. Actually, scratch that: it was just fucking badass and I want to be as cool as Dizzee.
Spoon begin soon after, over at the Essential Stage (another tent, home to a varied selection of bands). They play to a smaller crowd of a noticeably different ilk; less of the shirtless and sweaty, big-armed blokes and more skinny indie-kids, the sort who get totally stoked seeing bands like this, and Arcade Fire. Spoon's set, while accomplished and polished, seems a little unexcited, particularly towards the end; members shuffle, suggesting they're more comfortable as a studio band, but their performance still gives way to moments of terrific energy. 'Don't Make Me A Target' packs a punch, for example. Besides, a lackluster day for Spoon certainly isn't anything to complain about. The impression that they're more suited to a smaller or bigger venue, instead of a middling slot in the afternoon at a festival, sticks, though.
The two main stages are right next to each other, which makes for some hilariously bad moments sitting through the bands that you'd rather go out of your way to avoid. Having to sit through the awful Australian popular rock band Grinspoon while anticipating Arcade Fire is torturous. But, of course, the wait is worth it. If Arcade Fire are this awesome every time they play then I'm pretty worried, for both their health and their instruments, especially that poor drum that Richard Reed Parry chucks around, only for the thing to be fallen over and on to. But the show goes on whatever the carnage, Win Butler getting all Buster Keaton with some theatrical clambering over the stage. Band members bang on every rafter they can get their sticks on, running around chasing each other; the best part is how astoundingly sincere and real it all seems, even at a humid late-afternoon slot.
The rush back over to the Essential Stage is worth it: on arrival Battles are just laying into 'Atlas', and with gusto to say the least. The song's a certifiable epic, even before a small-ish crowd. After this highlight the band's energy levels drop a little, falling back to some less full-on mathematical jams that don't seem to hold attentions so well. There are certainly a few bewildered faces at those mental chipmunk vocoder vocals, but also a lot of recognition for Battles' overall awesomeness.
A quick stroll via UNKLE's set – which seems solid with the full band set up – and it's over to Björk. Only in Australia can you be sitting, blessing out to such eccentric Icelandic splendour, only to have one of your smaller female friends bowled over by two drunk guys' wrestling rugby-style blunder through the crowd. Still, we're perched in the perfect place to sit and enjoy Björk's set, even if it's a little too far to enjoy the amazingly lavish costumes that her eight-piece orchestra are wearing. I'm not sure what the heck one guy with her was playing, but it may have been from outer space; little UFO-like bulbs of blue light move around, kaleidoscopic and otherworldly projected up on the big screens. Magical, as you'd expect. Halfway through, some enormous green lasers shoot out across the night sky, dancing above an hour-long set drawn from a truly impressive and incredibly diverse catalogue.
My final moments at the Big Day Out are spent at the Boiler Room once more, dancing ridiculously to LCD Soundsystem as James Murphy writhes around on the floor to 'Yeah' and bopping to 'North American Scum', backed by his band and some big-time lasers; 'LCD Soundsystem' is spelled out in huge digital letters all over the screens. Keeping with the nature of the music in the Boiler Room all day, Murphy marshals his band through longer, more typically dance tracks. This works out terrifically, and the indie kids and dance music enthusiasts ("who are these guys?") are kept happy without energy ever being compromised. They're pretty perfect for the Big Day Out: it's music for everyone; fun, danceable, witty if you want to listen.
The Big Day Out's spirit seems higher than in previous years as it straddles mainstream and indie with a well-balanced line-up. Additionally, this year's crowd seem a little more focused on the bands rather than their bourbon and Coke cans. A big day out, indeed.
Photo: Richard MacFarlane


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Week of 3/8/2010 through 3/14/2010
* Neighbors Gathering on Student Safety at Wilson High School
* Meeting with former Commissioner Mike Lindberg (by phone) and Oregon Food representative Sara Shirmer
* Women In History Brown Bag Lunch, speaking engagement
* Service Coordination Team Graduation
* Monthly Meeting with CAO Ken Rust, Office of Management and Finance
* Columbia River Crossing Coalition members Wayne Kingsley and Brian Gard
* Monthly meeting with Maria Lisa Johnson, Director, Office of Human Relations
* Monthly meeting with LaVonne Griffin-Valade, City Auditor, accompanied by Mary Beth Baptista, Director of the Independent Police Review bureau
* Meeting with Cassie Cohen et al., Rose Quarter Community Crossroads proposal for the Memorial Coliseum
* City Council sessions: Wednesday morning and afternoon. Thursday afternoon's session was canceled.
* Meeting with Rex Burkholder
* Metro Policy Advisory Council meeting
* Meeting with Marcus Marchand, constituent seeking advice about public speaking. My advice: Join Toastmasters! I did, and it was very helpful as well as a lot of fun, and a way to meet kind friendly people
* Meeting with Andrew Frazier, constituent, regarding cellular facility at NE 37th and Fremont
* Meeting with Mayor Adams regarding IPR ordinance, Last Thursday process, and catching up on multiple other issues
* Friendly House Auction
* Soroptimist International Portland North's Basket Auction
* Linnton Community Center fundraiser
Dinners at Home: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday