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.
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Teens Got Milk? Some teens will be participating in a class where they get to be a mock ad agency coming up with ads for the Got Milk? campaign.
One school made a 13-year-old Goth boy remove his makeup. Is this sexual discrimination?
When moms overestimate their teens’ future use of alcohol, it actually leads teens to drink more.
As a sign of the technology times, Visa is going mobile. Soon our teens will be doing everything with their cell phones.
Have you teenager-proofed your marriage?
Dr. Robyn has 7 ways to NOT be a helicopter parent when talking to teachers.
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Do you know how to talk to your teens about LGBT issues? Even straight teens need to be informed about LGBT issues so they can put an end to intolerance and bullying.
What should you do if your daughter encounters a mean girl at school?
Cell phone companies are coming up with ways for parents to restrict teens usage, text messages and downloads on their cell phones.
Is wearing two pairs of pants a new fashion trend? Apparently it’s a way for a drug deal to conceal drugs.
Even grandparents are starting to text now.
Young people are getting their political news online.
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