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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Teens don’t need TVs for graduation anymore. 62% of college students are watching television online.

Teens are getting their booze for free from adults. 40% of underage drinkers say they got alcohol from adults. You may want to lock up your alcohol, because more than 80% of the nation’s estimated 10.8 million underage current drinkers most recently drank at their own home or someone else’s home.

Think it’s hard enough dealing with your kids begging for all the new gadgets they see advertised on television? Well now kids are seeing more and more beer and vodka ads on television too.

Some teens are getting their alcohol fix by doing shots through their eyes. Yuck!

The internet makes it’s harder for teens to lie about where they’ve been and what they’ve been doing.

Is your teen trying to decide what to be when he/she grows up? Maybe they should consider a tech degree. Apparently less students are seeking tech degrees while the demand is increasing.

Need some tips on how to make sure your teen doesn’t start smoking? Parents are a big influence on keeping the butts out of their child’s mouths.

Get your kids to eat their vegetables. Or offer them a “salad bar” choice.

Does you teen have bad breath? Learn what causes bad breath and how you can prevent it.

If your teen enjoys camping here are some camping tips for teens.

Keep your child’s brain working with these multipication games.

Looking for even more activities for your tween or teen girl? How about a spa day?

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Convince underage girls not to drink by letting them know their drunken antics will be the butt of many jokes. Humiliation goes a long way with a teenage girl. Watch the videos on ALot2Lose.com with your daughter and see what she thinks.

Speaking of underage drinking, Vanessa Van Petten gives us the facts about teen drinking.

And Liz at This Full House points us to another great site called Grltlk.org website as she starts talking to her teens about drinking.

According to The Teen Drug Abuse Blogs, communication is the best way to fight drug abuse among teens. Are you communicated with your teens? Not just lecturing, but actually communicating and listening?

So how do you become and active listener? You use your whole body.

Paris Hilton is searching for her new best friend on MTV. Oh help us.

Is your teen the next Steven Spielberg? Or a comedian like Dane Cook? Or quirky like Jim Carrey? Then they might interested in MTV’s movie spoof contest. They could win a trip to the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

Movie spoofs not their thing? Are they more of the Alex P. Keaton variety? [On a sidenote, I called my son Alex P. Keaton the other day and he didn't know what I was talking about. Oh the humanity.] Well he/she can post a video about what the new president should do on his/her very first day in office.

Or is your teen an aspiring journalist who wants to cover the election? Wiretap is looking for Millennials (age 18 to 28) to blog about the election.

Get in to the election spirit with a Declare Yourself Vote t-shirt from American Eagle.

Did you know eating disorder may be contagious?

Philly schools cut snacks and it helped kids lose weight. I’m still trying to figure out why schools ever introduced soda and candy machines in the first place.

But then again, with junk food bans kids are selling candy in the black market…or at least at school in secret. And they are making a profit. They are quite the entrepreneurs.

Teen dating violence is on the rise. We need to take notice and put a stop to this. Keep track of your teens.

Have you heard about this new children’s book, My Beautiful Mommy? It explains plastic surgery to kids. Thoughts?

Vanessa Van Petten tells us what to do if our teen wants to wear clothes we don’t find appropriate.

YPulse has some interesting tidbits about teen credit card debt, female athletes and catholic youths.

Over at Adventures in Parenting there is an interesting (and scary) prom story. Good thing her daughter was cautious and checked out the stoned limo driver before she got in the car.

A U.K. store was criticized for selling a plunging, padded bra for kids as young as seven. I recently had this same issue with a bathing suit I bought at Old Navy for my eight-year-old.

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