Should Your Teen Get a Job?

My son is now fourteen (gulp) and he recently reminded me that he is now old enough to get a job (double gulp). The legal age for employment is, indeed, fourteen, although there are certain state regulations, such as not being allowed to work between the hours of 9:00 PM and 7:00 AM. And being [...]

Ways For Teens To Make Money

With Christmas fast approaching, many parents are looking for ways for their teens to make money. Teens want to make money well beyond Christmas. They have some pretty expensive desires, so it is a good idea to give them ways they can make money themselves.
How about encouraging them to start their own home based business? [...]

Teenage Abortion Dangers – Warning For Teens And Parents

The rate of abortion among teenaged girls has been going down recently. It was quite high in the seventies, but became stable in the eighties. The rate of abortions among teenaged girls has come down especially in the nineties. In 1990, about 26.5 teenagers among 1000 went in for an abortion. In 2000, only 14.5 [...]

Nutritional Deficiencies in Teens

Deficiency is one of the most common nutritional disorders, and adolescents are at special risk – up to 13 per cent of teenage boys and girls were found to have low iron stores. Rapid growth, coupled with a fast lifestyle and poor dietary choices, can result in iron-deficiency. Teenage girls need to pay particular attention [...]

Parents Need to Take the Lead Against Drug Abuse

By Rev. Ned Wicker,
Drug-Addiction-Support.org

I remember a conversation I had with a police detective some 35 years ago. He was telling me about what a mother had told him over the phone about her teenaged son. â??Once heâ??s out of the house, heâ??s not our problem.â? The detective, who served an upscale suburban community, was [...]

Helping Your Teens to Cope With Peer Pressure

As parents we are very protective of our children and spend a lot of time trying to keep them from getting themselves into trouble. Amongst other things this means teaching them what we believe to be right so that they do not find themselves giving in to negative peer pressure. But, at the end of [...]

Preteens and Teens: Being Too Sweet Can Kill You!

The two major health issues that our pre-teens and teens face today are Obesity and “Diabetes 2″. What they eat and what they drink are suspects in slowly leading them to their death because of their contents—the sugars or artificial sweeteners present in the products they consume.

These health issues that have arisen to major [...]

Teens and ADHD

Teens with ADHD have a very difficult life. This condition is one that you may not even realize that your child has. In many cases, the symptoms are so few that you do not see that it is there. In fact, they know it is, but you do not. ADHD is [...]

ADHD in Teens

Raising teens in general can be difficult, but raising an adolescent with ADHD can be quite the task. This is because teens with ADHD are less emotionally mature than their peers. That means they are still going through the mental, physical and emotional changes of adolescence but they are not as less ready [...]

Preventing Teen Alcohol Abuse

It’s no secret that alcohol abuse is alive and well in high schools and college campuses across America. New research studies seek to investigate the root causes of teen alcohol abuse: the relationship between heavy drinking and social anxiety.
According to a recent report by the National Institute of Health (NIH), anxiety is a psychological [...]

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