In this age, nearly everyone uses the internet at some point. Businesses rely on it, individuals work and play on it, and teenagers seem to live on it!
The internet has many uses, including email, socializing, working, browsing websites, reading news, shopping, and playing games or videos. Everyday tasks are made simpler by the internet, which [...]
Your Teen and the Internet
Teens and Eating Disorders
The media and society have unhealthy views on what beauty is and isn’t. Unfortunately for many teens, this can lead to significant pressure to conform to unrealistic standards through changing their natural eating patterns.
Eating disorders primarily affect young women, but young men can also be affected, and are less likely to be spotted or diagnosed [...]
Teen Sexuality: Your Little Kid All Grown Up?
One of the hardest conversations for a parent to have with their teen is one about sex. Its famously awkward nickname of “the conversation” and the sheer fact that most teens don’t want to talk to their parents about sex can make this even harder. However, in spite of how difficult it can be, it [...]
Teen Depression and Suicide
One of the saddest things in the world is a parent’s grief over losing their child. It can be all too easy for parents to think their teens are just fine, when they’re actually at serious risk for committing suicide. Fortunately, you can help prevent your teen from attempting suicide by paying close attention to [...]
Talking to Your Teen About Drugs
When you’re parenting a teen, it’s easy to see all the pressures he’s under in his daily life. Not only are there stresses from school, sometimes a part-time job, and extracurricular activities, but his friends are often a source of peer pressure. This shouldn’t always be a source of alarm — peer pressure can be [...]
How to Tell if Your Teen is in Trouble
How do you tell the difference between a normal uncommunicative teen and one who’s in trouble and at risk for eating disorders, drug problems, violence, depression, suicide, and so on?
It may seem like an impossible task, but if you know your teen and are searching for problem signs, you probably already have an idea whether [...]
How to Get Your Teen to Eat Healthy
Does it seem like every time you see your teen, he’s munching on potato chips, sipping soda, or eating McDonald’s fries?
Junk food is such a big part of modern life that many teens get caught up in eating it and forget the healthy eating habits you tried to instill in them when they were kids. [...]
How to Communicate With Your Teen
For many parents, as their teens grow older, it becomes harder and harder to communicate with them. It seems like they’re isolated and barely talk to you, only leaving their room to go out with their friends or have meals. Privacy becomes very important for teens, and they seem to stop listening to what their [...]
Helping Your Teen Through College Admissions
One of the hardest parts of being a parent is letting your child have more independence. When your teen is getting ready to apply to college, your natural instinct might be to worry and try to hold onto him a bit longer. It’s important not to do this, however. Try to be there for your [...]
Do Video Games Hurt Your Teen?
It seems like the phrase “video game violence” is bandied about in the media every day now. Video games have taken the blame for incidents of teen violence in recent years, from systemic gang violence to one-of tragedies like Columbine.
Yet in this “media panic”, a media-induced hysteria about something that actually isn’t as negative as [...]