All Entries in the "Teens" Category
Understand Your Teen To Better Communicate With Them
Talking with your teenager and getting across your message can be very frustrating, taxing and challenging. This is the period when they are so self-centered and will not listen to anyone except themselves, making guidance and discipline so difficult.
You must understand however that this is a stage they are going through and not something permanent.
And [...]
Student Sex Life And Academics Not Connected, Says Study
It has been assumed to a large extent that sexually active teens tend to do less well in school and that being sexually active negatively impacts grades. Recent research presented at the American Sociological Association in Atlanta challenges that assumption.
A new study is telling parents that the sex life of kids will not impact academics [...]
How To Understand Your Teens And Monitor Them?
Teens today are sometimes way advance than their parents because of technology that is just a fingertip away. It is so hard to monitor them even harder to understand and communicate with them.
They seem to be worlds apart and their interests’ unimaginable, making communication next to impossible. There is no quick step in dealing with [...]
Teens Are ‘Wired And Tired’, Say Researchers
They need 9 hours of sleep each night, but today’s teens, always connected and technologically up to date, are only getting between six and a half to seven and a half hours of sleep a night. In short, teens today are not getting enough sleep, according to study published in the journal Pediatrics.
It is technological [...]
Teen Parenting Advice You Can Share With Your Teenager
Teen parenting is a topic which most parents should be sensitive about. Teens, in general, go through a lot of different changes in their life which needs to be properly handled.
Changes in social, physical, mental, and emotional aspects are very evident which needs to be dealt with the most understanding.
As older and wiser individuals, we [...]
Antisocial Teen? The Reason Could Be Biological
A new study has been able to show that teens with conduct disorder and who indulge in anti social behavior may not be doing this just out of peer pressure. It has been seen that brain abnormalities could be responsible for Conduct Disorder, which is a psychiatric condition.
Conduct Disorder usually manifests itself in aggression and [...]
Should Parents Let Their Teens Drink?
Based on the principle of Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t, many parents would subscribe to the view that kids are going to drink anyway, so forbidding them from doing so is not going to really help.
Instead they choose to allow drinking, in a controlled supervised fashion believing that this will [...]
Teens Training Too Hard Leading To Injuries, Feel Doctors
In the highly competitive world of teen sport, summer is a time, when everyone goes into over drive and the competition becomes even fiercer. Summer break is a time when young athletes train harder and increase their susceptibility to injury.
It is what health doctors and physical therapists are calling the “Epidemic of Overuse” which sees [...]
Parents Rules Are Effective Teen Drinking Prevention
If parents think that loosening the reins and relaxing rules about drinking as their teens get older is a good idea, they may be wrong, warns brain scientists and parenting experts.
According to experts, the rules that parents set and their way of addressing the issue to drinking does impact kids’ behavior.
Parents are now being informed [...]
Having Trouble With Your 14 Year Old Daughter? You’re Not Alone
If you thought that it will all be plain sailing now that your little girl’s past the toddler years, you are wrong. The terrible twos will seem like a walk in the park once your daughter hits her teens with the worst yet to come, according to recent research!
A survey has revealed that girls aged [...]
