Healthline Blogs
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Surviving a Borderline Parent
Being a teenager in our world is hard enough, but if you live with a parent who gives you mixed messages or the silent treatment, or whose mood swings from euphoria to despair in a matter of hours, it can be even harder. If as a teen you keep wond...
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Selling Food to Children: Why is Obesity a Problem?
Here is an assignment for you - watch TV with your tween one day and count the food advertisements - a recent study suggests you will see about 21 a day, and 34% of them will be advertising candy or snacks, 28% will be for cereal, and 10% will be ...
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What Is Being Done To Prevent H1N1?
PCAST (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) recommends several key steps to preventing H1N1:All manufacturers (there are five) of the vaccine have been asked to prepare and deliver the vaccine as quickly as possible.The DHHS ...
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STIs Common Within Two Years of Sexual Debut
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Chlamydia and Teens
Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) or infection caused by the bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, which can damage a woman's reproductive organs. Most women infected with chlamydia have no symptoms although serious complications can c...
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Religion and Teen Sexual Behavior
The Journal of Adolescent Health included a recent article entitled "The role of parent religiosity in teens' transitions to sex and contraception" exploring the associations of parent and family religiosity with the timing of sexual initiation ...
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Fungus Among Us!
Just a reminder that as teens get older, and some get more modest, you may see less of their bodies, therefore they need to know how to recognize and treat assorted fungus they may pick up at school, the gym, or the pool. Specifically, athletes fo...
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In Case of Emergency (ICE)
Here is an important topic I had not given much thought, but I believe parents should put on their "to-do" list. First, the police suggest that you program an "In Case of Emergency" (ICE) number into all the phones in your household. This is a n...
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Dating Violence in the News
A recent study described in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry suggests that 3 percent of 12-to-17-year-old girls and 0.6 percent of boys report being physically or sexually assaulted by a romantic partner or da...
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Sexuality Education is Failing Miserably
Recently there was a great story in the Washington Post article by Laura Sessions Stepp, staff writer and author of "Our last best shot: Guiding our children through early adolescence." I loved her book, and the title of the article, "Beyond the B...
