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- Getting Your Runaway Teen to Come Home
When a teenager runs away from home, your first priority is getting them to come home. What brings most runaways home is simple: their family. more...
- Teens: Sleep Deprived on a Downhill Slide
Most teens don't get enough sleep. Lack of sleep can cause mood swings, cognitive problems or impulse control issues, and can affect physical and mental performance. more...
- What to Do if Your Teen Keeps Running Away From Home
While you may feel helpless when it comes to preventing your teen from disappearing, there are some things you can do to prevent it from happening again. more...
- Get Your Teen to Trust You and Stop Lying
Since today's teenagers spend a lot of time away from their parents, trust issues between parents and teens are more important than ever. more...
- Teens Using Drugs and Alcohol to Cope with the Stress of an Ailing Economy
Teens already have a lot to worry about, and the troubled economy is only making matters worse. Find out how to help your teen cope with stress and avoid common pitfalls like drug or alcohol abuse. more...
- Risk of Depression Eating Disorders Suicide Among Girls
It can be tough to be a kid really tough. And for girls, the challenges of youth appear to be intensifying, as evidenced by rising rates of depression, suicide, eating disorders, and self-injury. more...
- Pressure, Harassment Raise Risk of Depression, Eating Disorders, Suicide Among Girls
It can be tough to be a kid - really tough. And for girls, the challenges of youth appear to be intensifying, as evidenced by rising rates of depression, suicide, eating disorders, and self-injury. more...
- Bullies Push Young Victims Beyond the Breaking Point
Once viewed as little more than an annoying rite of passage, bullying is now understood to be a devastating, even deadly, behavior that poses a variety of dangers to both victims and perpetrators. more...
- Summer Jobs Can Reduce Risk of Teen Suicide
Researchers with the University of Iowa report that teens who hold down a summer job are less likely to commit suicide than are their unemployed peers. more...
- Youth, Violence, and Crime
While recent research has indicated a decline in violent crimes by America's youth, certain aspects of youth crime remain troubling. more...
- Is Your Teen Sexting? Risque Online Behavior Puts Young People at Risk
Today, the proliferation of instant-messaging services, keyboard-and-camera-equipped cell phones, and a lax attitude toward what is and isn't private has led to an alarming increase in the amount of sexually suggestive and violent information that is being posted, e-mailed, and otherwise electronically shared by teenagers. more...
- When Anger Crosses the Line - Is Your Teen's Aggression Causing Problems in Your Family?
Anger is a natural emotion that almost every sentient adult experiences from time to time. When healthy, well-adjusted individuals witness or learn about incidents of injustice, cruelty, or senseless violence (to name just a few), they are likely to become understandably angry. In the best cases, this anger is channeled into positive action. But when anger leads to continued destruction, or when it prompts violence toward another or oneself, then a problem exists and help is required. more...
- Boys Engage in Self-Harm, Too
When most people think of self-injury they tend to think of girls. But though girls do tend to participate in self-mutilating on a larger scale than boys do, this does not mean that boys are immune to the behavior. more...