Healthline Blogs
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Vacation and Financial Education
While I am in vacation planning mode I realized that an important consideration in every family about what the vacation will include is the total cost of a vacation.Whether you stay with family or friends, drive, fly, leave the country, go to an a...
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Thank You Grand Rounds
I would like to thank Kim at Emergiblog for hosting Grand Rounds this week and including a post from Teen Health 411 about "the porning of our teens."This was an interesting week of posts but I have to say that my favorite post was the lost tampon...
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Teen Smoking
According to the Health Behavior News Service, Health Psychology recently published a meta-analysis of 48 articles published about teen smoking cessation programs and quit rates. The adolescents who enrolled in these studies smoked an average of ...
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Grade Inflation and Teens
Grades seem out of control but what is worse (from a teacher's perspective) is the entitled expectation students seem to have - that if they put in hard work, the result should equal an "A." More and more teachers are finding themselves faced with...
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TV May Hurt Attention and Learning Skills
There is more research supporting my position that TV is rotting the brains of America's youth. Two recent studies suggest that time spent watching TV, which is not intellectually challenging, would be better spent interacting with others, reading...
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Online Food Advertising to Kids Another Venue to Market Junk Food
A report released in July by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 85% of the top food brands that target children through television advertising also have Web sites that market to children. These corporate-sponsored sites are primarily marketin...
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When Teens Start Dating
After you get over the urge to run and hide, lock your teen in the bathroom, shave his or her head, and save yourself, take a deep breath and think about what is important here. You are likely panicked because you know that sooner or later someon...
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Sexual Knowledge in U.S. May Be Low (Duh!)
A recent survey of 1,800 people between the ages of 18 and 29 conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy (National Campaign) found that most sexually active unmarried young adults believe pregnancy should be planned...
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Speaking Out About Adolescent Sexuality
The Reverend Debra Haffner is talking about adolescent sexuality again, and I love it! The Center for American Progress published an article recently in which Reverend Haffner talks about the fact that parents in the United States seem to be rais...
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Why Honor Confidentiality With Teens?
I would assume that when parents are asked to leave the room for a few minutes during a preteen or teen physical, they know their child or the doctor will bring up sex, drugs, and anything else that may be a concern and is not easily discussed wit...
