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 = …read more

First 90210 came back. Now there will be a new Melrose Place. And in the theaters there will be a Footloose remake (with Zac Efron) and a new Fame. Everything old is new again.
Help our underachieving teen find success in school.
Is today’s education “dumbed down” for our teenagers? Teens today are better at instant responses, but can’t give descriptive responses like we did back in our day.
Is surfing the internet altering your brain?
Sending your kids to college may get a lot more expensive in the next year.
Teens are choosing less expensive public colleges over public ones. Well except for Ivy …read more

Get your teen off the video games and doing something else with this list of activities for techie kids.
Holy moly, some cereals are made up of more than 50% sugar.
So instead here are some alternative breakfast choices.
California now requires fast food restaurants to display calorie information. Hopefully Gen Yers will read it.
To make matters worse, today’s youth isn’t reading the nutrition labels on the food they buy.
Sex education makes a huge impact on teen’s delaying having sexual intercourse.
Teens are under a lot of pressure to be popular. So much pressure they sometimes engage in risky behavior. Help curb that behavior …read more

When it comes to discipline you need to stick to it. Don’t waiver. Make sure they know you mean it.
Do you know the teen dating terms? If not, learn them.
Schools may start putting more weight on a student’s class rank over SAT scores when considering admission to college.
We’ve seen the Miley Cyrus photos floating around the internet. Is you teen a “Nokia Lolita” too?
What’s new with teens? Find out at the YPulse Mashup. A lot of really great info here especially tips on how to interacting with teens and tweens.
Instead of keeping cell phones in their lockers, teachers may be …read more