Parents dealing with a teen who is considerably overweight or underweight often cajole, plead and frankly harp on them to do something about their diet. But experts now say the best way to deal with waistline issues in teens is not talking about their weight at all. Guidelines for pediatricians now emphasize focusing on positive, […]
Teens learn a lot about sex during the middle and high school years, officially and unofficially. With raging hormones, teens want to know more about sex, preventing pregnancy and diseases, and other health subjects as they transition to adulthood. But many are still fumbling in the dark, so to speak, because the sex education content […]
While teens are tweeting, texting, sexting and making contact regularly using digital means, old-school physical means are apparently not as popular as they used to be. American teens are having less sex than at any point in the last 25 years. According to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, teenagers […]
