Healthline Blogs
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Teens and Mothers
To celebrate Mother's Day I thought it would be a great idea to involve my teens and asked them to help me create a post that would celebrate teens and moms! The 15-year old produced the following poem she wrote for the post:MotherBy Madison Brown...
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The Culture of Food
Whoa there is hope for our society yet! This month's American Journal of Public Health (April 2009, Volume 99, No.4) actually has a short article by Aleisha Kropf with two beautiful pictures. The included text is about how how food preparation aff...
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Labor Force Participation for Teens is Only 41%
I for one think it is really important for teenagers to work even a few hours a week. It builds confidence, a work ethic, and with any luck, good communication skills. In addition, teens learn how to juggle competing responsibilities and (again, w...
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Oregon Youth and the Choking Game
Now here is a scary one reported from the CDC. The "choking game" seems to be a little too popular among Oregon 8th graders. For those of you who have not heard about this activity - basically a person strangles themselves or someone else to achie...
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Book Review: Girl's Guide to Becoming a Teen
As a parent of two girls, I know that they can use all the information they can get to help navigate the changes they experience during the gain of "40 pounds and 10 inches" associated with puberty!In 2006 the American Medical Association publishe...
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Reproductive Health: Teens & Young Adults
The National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC) has just released a new fact sheet on Reproductive Health in Adolescents and Young Adults that had mixed news. On one hand, the adolescent pregnancy rates have decreased, as have the numbe...
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Teens and Work
I know this may sound a little silly coming from a woman who keeps talking about spending more unstructured time with our teens and preteens, but I think that the never ending pressure to be successful is keeping our kids from having the opportuni...
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Set Your Clocks and Check Your Stocks!
Happy Halloween! I know the Autumn weather has been here for at least a month and we have all been waiting to set our clocks back, but it is finally time to do just that.Tonight before you go to bed remember to set your clocks back an hour (Fall b...
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Chlamydia and Teens
Chlamydia is America's most common sexually transmitted disease, and is most often seen in teens and young adults. Chlamydia is a bacterial infection spread by vaginal, oral, or anal intercourse. Most people do not have any symptoms to know they h...
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Calling For a Crackdown on Pro-Anorexia Web Sites
This may surprise some of you, but there are actually "pro-anorexia" (pro-ana) and "pro-bulimia" (pro-mia) web sites on the Internet attracting a significant number of teenage girls, especially those vulnerable to peer pressure and at risk for eat...
