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!”

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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 Leagues.

You’re iPhone could save your life with this heart monitor application.

Gen Y is looking for safety and security in their car purchases.

Help your kids overcome a phobia by making them face it.

Too much salt in our food has lead to an increase in kidney stones in children.

Tell your teens to stay away from black henna tattoos.

Is sexual humor ok for teen boys (South Park) but too risque for teen girls (Blah Girls)?

Nintendo is still doing well despite the economy.

Tattoos are becoming so main stream you can now get a tattoo at the mall.

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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 by providing a stable support network, communicating and participating with your teen.

16% of the world’s 15- to 19-year-olds are infected with herpes.

Barack Obama is still ahead of the game…technology-wise. Obama’s campaign has introduced an iPhone application.

Times are changing. Gen Yers don’t need college for information. They have the internet for that. They are looking at college for networking and learning how to be successful.

Cell phones are not only desired by teens, but fun for parents too.

Do boys perform better when they are taught by male teachers?

Is makeup killing your teen?

School-wide anti-bullying programs don’t work. You need to teach your child to deal with bullies rather than running home to mom.

The economic bailout has turned in to a teaching opportunity for teens.

Is your child really sick or is she faking it? Here are some ways to find out.

Here’s a list of “cool” young entrepreneurs for your teens to look up to.

As if Grand Theft Auto wasn’t bad enough, now you can deal drugs. Great.

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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 asking students to start bring their phones to class for lessons.

What happened to long division? Kids today are learning new ways to solve their math problems and some parents are totally confused. Some parents have even decided to “cheat” and teach their kids the “old” way.

Kids become “sluggish” when they hit their teen years. Get their butts off the computer chair and in to the outdoors.

How do you talk to your teens about your financial woes?

Cigarette companies have lowered the menthol content in their products to learn in our teens.

What are we doing wrong in the U.S.? Why do we have so many more teen pregnancies than our European friends?

It’s been over a month since many of our kids have been in school. Here are some tips to reduce brain drain.

Living with tweens and teens can sometimes be difficult, but here are some tips to help you live (and love) your teen.

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