tween

Dr. Sohil Sud, director of the state’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, described the tween and teen years as “a time with increased emotional sensitivity and a strong desire for validation by peers,” where uniform rules at schools are more likely to be successful.

Like many a self-respecting tween, Melody Brooks has a thing or two to say about this and that, and a need to be heard.

Industries catering to preteens have crumbled as social media has become the epicenter of cultural dissemination, with tween fashion and beauty largely being folded into brands that cater to adults.

All I had to really do was figure out how Colin would be in these different stages of life: Colin as a baby or a toddler, then a tween and then a teen and trying to nail each of those without showing the acting and without pushing the joke.

Inside the complex, she had dozens of neighbors — elderly men and women with disabilities and little income, a mother who shared a mattress on the floor with her two tween daughters, a grandmother squeezed into a room with her daughter and 4-year old grandson.