Sunday Reading

CNN offers an age-by-age guide on why kids lie. To deal with your lying child set a good example and talk about lying can ruin your credibility.

Parents can help a teen with their body image issues by understanding, reassuring, explaining, and modeling.

Baby Boomers are raising a smug generation and it may be setting teens up for failure.

A ban on fast food advertising could decrease obesity by 18%.

Burger King is trying to get healthy by limiting sodium in kid meals and promoting adult meals with less than 650 calories.

Let kids eat cake…occasionally.

Some unique gift ideas for your tweens and teens.

Play = Learning, but kids are playing less.

There’s a new video game about graduate school and you need to write your dissertation.

Finally a manual for raising teens.

Want to have a drink with your teen to teach responsible drinking? Well it’s ok in some states, but not in others.

A new study finds that the internet is good for kids. Most kids avoid dangerous sites and only use the internet for research and communicating with friends.

Millennials prefer to do their banking via the web and instant messaging.

Another mom turned her kids in when she recognized them on the news as the suspects of a robbery.

Think your teen might be the victim of bullying? Here are the signs to look for.

It may be more difficult for a teen to quit smoking because teen’s don’t have a lot of the same options that adults have.

Presidents have always taken to the modern technology to address citizens. First it was radio, then television, and now the web. Obama is hosting his own version of Roosevelt’s fireside chats with weekly addresses on YouTube.

Here are some creative ways to give teens money for Christmas.

In celebrity news…

TRL ended it’s decade long run with a bang.

Not surprisingly, Miley Cryus says she is not dating that 20-year-old she hangs with constantly…they are just friends.

Paris Hilton and Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden ended their 9 month relationship.

Britney Spears says she got married for all the wrong reasons. And parents everywhere are screaming, “well duh!”