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• They Say: Staying Together for the Kids? Don't

  How many times have you heard someone in marital distress say they're just trying to make it through for the kids? Might want to give them a hug next time and tell them they shouldn't worry about it.  A new study has found what plenty of kids of bitter, bickering parents already knew: staying together for the kids doesn't work.  Read More... Posted Jun 02 2009, 11:01 AM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: teens, divorce, marriage, study, relationships, Jeanne Sager, they say, cornell, family unit, stepparents

• Kids on Cell Phones: Big Brother is Watching

  Do you spy on your kids?  For those of us still in the diapers and preschool stage, that question isn't up for much debate--who doesn't quietly peek into their kids' rooms to watch them play or sleep or fight with their siblings? But for those of us deep in the throes of teenage parenting, it can literally be a question of life and death. Or can it? Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 12:01 PM by KeriF with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: teens, cell phones, Keri Fisher, spying on kids

• UPDATE: Jamie Foxx Apologizes To Miley Cyrus

  Jamie Foxx issued a mea culpa on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. EOnline.com reports that Foxx responded with a "Yeah" when Jay Leno asked him "Did you say something inappropriate?" His full apology, from EOnline, after the jump. Read More... Posted Apr 18 2009, 11:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: television, disney, music, parents, teens, teenagers, disney channel, hannah montana, controversy, miley cyrus, billy ray cyrus, celebrity kids, celebrity gossip, Brett Singer, feud, miley ray cyrus, pop stars, Miley Ray Cyrus Hannah Montana Stewart Lipschutz, teen stars, Jamie Foxx, Radiohead, jamie foxx insults miley cyrus, celebrity daughter, celebrity dad, grammys, Thom Yorke, Corinne Foxx, slam, sirius radio, trash talk

• Judge Sentences Families to Do Puzzles

  Riddle me this: how do you make parents and their teens work together to create something meaningful? If you're Judge John Sholden, you assign them a thousand-piece puzzle to put together . . . or pay a $500 fine. Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 04:25 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: games, teens, toys, teenagers, puzzles, mediation, Jeanne Sager, judge, truancy, skipping school, family strife, parenting teens

• School Expels Teen for Birth Control Pill

  A teenager who popped her birth control pill during her lunch period at a Virginia school is spending her spring break fighting the district not to be expelled.  The problem? Not the fact that she was using birth control (because thank heavens for that), but that she did so during school hours. . . specifically, that she took a pill without supervision of the school nurse. Read More... Posted Apr 08 2009, 03:32 PM by JeanneSager with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: education, medicine, teens, birth control, schools, teen pregnancy, medication, drug abuse, Jeanne Sager, prescription drugs

• Schools Start Later So Teens Can Sleep In

  It's tough to be a teenager these days. Between MySpace, Wii, texting, and the like, not to mention activities that actually require you to leave the house, it can be hard for a teen to get to bed before midnight. How, then, are they supposed to get up at the ungodly hour of 7am to go to school?  What? Go to bed earlier? No, that's not the right solution.  Why not have school start later instead? Read More... Posted Mar 27 2009, 11:30 AM by KeriF with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: school, teens, sleep, Keri Fisher

• Why Teen Girls are Taking Drugs Meant for Cows

  It's rumor and conjecture at this point, but Wisconsin health officials are taking seriously claims that a rash of teenage girls have taking drugs commonly used on cows to force their bodies to abort babies.  The kids allegedly got hold of prostaglandins, drugs used by farmers to regulate cows' heat cycles for breeding, and ingested them as "a cheap and easy way to end their pregnancies without their parents finding out." Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 05:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: education, teens, teenagers, birth control, abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, animals, abstinence, Jeanne Sager, teen girls

• School Assignment Forces Kids to Buy Birth Control

  What would you do if your kid was sent out to buy condoms . . . on a school assignment? If you're Linda Strobl, you take it to the Canadian newspapers in outrage.  The irony? Strobl is a public health nurse, who says it's OK to teach kids about sexually transmitted diseases. Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 03:23 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: education, teens, teenagers, birth control, schools, condoms, STDs, Jeanne Sager, embarrassing kids, sexual health

• Half of Kids Surveyed Think Rihanna Had it Coming

  I've read some awful survey results over the years. But this? Almost half of the kids surveyed by the Boston Public Health Commission said they thought singer Rihanna was "responsible" for the beat-down she received from boyfriend Chris Brown. Read More... Posted Mar 17 2009, 08:21 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: teens, child abuse, violence, abuse, domestic violence, public health, survey, Jeanne Sager, social services, chris brown, rihanna, family violence

• How to Find a Job in This Economy: Let Your Kid on YouTube

  Things were looking bleak for the former vice president of marketing at the Tampa Bay Lightning - until his son got involved. Mark Gullett lost his job the Florida hockey team on Thursday. That night, his fourteen-year-old posted a heartrending video on YouTube and job offers started pouring in. Read More... Posted Mar 15 2009, 11:47 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, father, teens, teenagers, videos, economy, son, Jeanne Sager, economic crisis, job loss

• Bedtime: Does Your Kid Have One?

  Do your kids have a regular bedtime, like Sasha and Malia Obama? (The first kids, aged seven and ten, are in bed by eight p.m., according to reports.) Or do they just keep going and going, exhausted little energizer bunnies, till late into the night? Growing up in the freewheeling 70s, I remember being smug about my family's lack of set bedtimes -- and I remember falling asleep in school all the time. In fact, my bedtime-free childhood seemed less and less fun as I got older, leading to mornings of scrambling out of bed, late as usual, and arriving at high school (college, work) with wacky hair and bleary eyes.  Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 03:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: toddler, school, teens, teenagers, tweens, sleep, sleeping, sleep deprivation, schoolkids, sleep needs, brain chemistry, school hours, sleep habits, dr. perri klass, sleep researchers, circadian rhythms

• Teen Dad's Father Wearing Halloween Mask In Public

  Most grandparents are blissfully happy to have grandchildren. They are so proud that "proud" doesn't sufficiently capture the feelings they have for their offspring's offspring. They want everyone to know that THEY! ARE! GRANDPARENTS! Some, however, would prefer to keep their identity a secret. Read More... Posted Feb 18 2009, 02:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: news, parents, teens, sun, Brett Singer, teen parents, chantelle steadman, alfie patten, max clifford

• They Say: Teens WANT to Help Their Parents

  Toddlers are always thought of as the people pleasers and their teen counterparts as the surly loner types. Not so says a new study from researchers at three American universities. The small study finds teens may actually WANT to help their families. Read More... Posted Feb 09 2009, 03:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: parents, teens, teenagers, study, responsibility, chores, babysitting, Jeanne Sager, they say, helping, family responsibilities, family unit

• They Say: Kids Need To Be Taught to Handle School Stress

  Could teens who turn to drugs and alcohol just be plain old stressed?  A new study out of Britain states thirty-six percent of kids who were stressed about exams, peer relationships and the volume of homework turned to drinking to drown their sorrows. Another sixteen percent smoked cigarettes, while six percent used drugs to make the stress go up in a puff of smoke. Read More... Posted Jan 13 2009, 02:04 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: education, school, teens, discipline, alcohol, behavior, stress, drugs, Jeanne Sager, they say

• Teaching Teens to Recognize Abusive Relationships

  A recent study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found that a full third of college students were involved in an abusive relationship at some point before they started college. And a survey of 1,000 children found that 25 percent of kids aged 11 to 14 had been harassed and verbally degraded by their boyfriend or girlfriend through phone calls or text messages, often late at night when their parents were sleeping. One of the main reasons for these alarmingly high numbers is that teenage romance is bound to be sticky and confusing, so youth are often blind to behaviors that could be a harbinger of violence. Read More... Posted Jan 04 2009, 03:49 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: parents, teens, teenagers, high school, abuse, domestic violence, preteens, dating violence, abusive relationships, romance, adolescents, recognizing an abusive relationship, preventing dating abuse, dating abuse, heather norris, deborah norris, teen dating violence, educators

• They Say: Shunning Gay Kids Bad for Their Health

  Gee, who would have ever thought a kid being told they're just not good enough could be bad for their kids? Apparently researchers at the César E. Chávez Institute at San Francisco State University. They actually took money and did a full-fledged study to figure out gay kids are at higher risk for a number of health problems if they're shunned by their families. Ya think?  What ever happened to funding studies that do things like - oh I don't know - find a cure for children's cancer?  Read More... Posted Dec 30 2008, 11:36 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: teens, depression, lesbian, gay, study, gay kids, drug use, suicide, rejection, Jeanne Sager, they say, family relationships

• They Say -- Kids Who Skip Breakfast and Hate Mom Have Sex Sooner

  Sometimes I read a news story and feel like I'm actually reading The Onion. Does that ever happen to you? For example: this report from Japan that finds a link between middle school students and teen sex.  Basically, middle schoolers who do not partake of the most important meal of the day are more likely to get a head start on making the out-of-wedlock beast with two backs. (That's an unnecessarily silly way of saying "having sex.") What exactly inspires a study like this one? Read More... Posted Dec 29 2008, 03:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: news, teens, Japan, science, studies, wtf, weird, surveys, japanese, Brett Singer, they say

• Chicago Kids Held in Hospitals, Jails Instead of Foster Homes

  Remember this next time you hear people arguing that we should limit who can take care of, or adopt, kids in need (or that we shouldn't build a group home in their neighborhood): Read More... Posted Dec 23 2008, 05:00 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: adoption, teens, mental health, jail, foster care, chicago, special needs kids, psych ward, foster placement, mental hospital, DCFS

• Is Miley Cyrus' First Photo Shoot Creepy?

  Miley Ray Cyrus Hannah Montana Stewart Lipschutz's first photo shoot has surfaced. The shots were taken back in 2002, and some of them are way creepy. At least that's my opinion. You may feel differently. Let's take a look, shall we?  Read More... Posted Dec 16 2008, 04:15 PM by Brett Singer with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: television, disney, music, parents, teens, teenagers, disney channel, hannah montana, diabetes, photos, miley cyrus, billy ray cyrus, celebrity kids, celebrity gossip, Brett Singer, jonas brothers, pics, nick jonas, hannah montana pictures, miley ray cyrus, pop stars, miley cyrus first photo shoot, Miley Ray Cyrus Hannah Montana Stewart Lipschutz, miley cyrus 10 years old, teen stars, miley cyrus photo shoot

• Students Watch Autopsy of Teen From School

  I'm not really crazy about sending my kid out to watch an autopsy to begin with. Yes, even in the name of science. But when the body a class of teens is watching the medical examiner cut up belongs to a fourteen-year-old from their school district, you've lost me completely.  It's exactly what happened at a Michigan ME's office; even after the teacher was warned that the teenagers in her high school science class would be subjected to the autopsy of a middle school student frpm the same school district who had committed suicide. Read More... Posted Dec 09 2008, 10:04 AM by JeanneSager with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: teens, teenagers, innocence, science, death, suicide, CSI, Jeanne Sager, autopsy, death and kids, kids dying, dead kids

• For Those Teens Puttin’ on the Ritz and the Parents Who Can Afford It

  I have no desire to be a teenager again. Those years are, thankfully, long gone. But the Ritz-Cartlon is making me wish that I could once again be a teen conveniently aged 13-19. Why? ‘Cos they just launched their Teen Lounge program at a few of their properties in Florida, a place just for the teens where no parents are allowed. Yes, that means you.  Read More... Posted Dec 08 2008, 09:41 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: teens, hotels, family trips, teenager, Ritz Carlton, teen clubs, travel with teenagers

• Cheetah Girls Banned From Macys Thanksgiving Parade

  Fans of Disney Channel girl group The Cheetah Girls will be disappointed to learn that the trio will not be appearing at the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. The reason? Semi-nude photos of Adrienne Bailon, who plays Chanel Simmons in the band/movies about... Read More... Posted Nov 19 2008, 07:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: television, news, disney, tv, music, parents, teens, teenagers, disney channel, hannah montana, controversy, miley cyrus, thanksgiving, celebrity gossip, Brett Singer, miley ray cyrus, macys, Chanel Simmons, cheetah girls, macys thanksgiving day parade, things I don't understand, the cheetah girls, Adrienne Bailon, cheetah girls banned from macys thanksgiving day parade

• They Say: The IVF Kids Are All Right

  Here’s some good news for families with kids conceived through IVF – at adolescence, they show no differences with families with children conceived “naturally.” A study from the University of Leuven in Belgium, published in the journal Human Reproduction, looked at families with 15 and 16 year old children who had participated in a similar study when their children were two years old. Both parents and children of IVF families and non-IVF families filled out questionnaires assessing the parents’ parenting style and stress, and the teens’ psychosocial adjustment. Both teens and parents filled out both surveys. Read More... Posted Nov 18 2008, 05:06 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: teens, IVF, families, adolescents, they say, adjustment, parenting after infertility, in vitro

• They Say: Teen Violence Has Many Mothers

  Not literally, of course! But a new study published in the journal Child Development suggests that neither genetics nor environment alone can be blamed for causing violent behavior in teenagers. As reported in the New York Times, the researchers found that for most teens, an early history of small behavioral problems tended to snowball into bigger issues, usually as parents pulled away from difficult children and schools washed their hands of them. Led by Dr. Kenneth Dodge at the Center for Child and Family Study at Duke University, researchers followed 750 children from preschool to high school. What they found, in Dodge's words, confounds both typical liberal and conservative responses to teen problems. Read More... Posted Nov 18 2008, 01:30 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with no comments Filed under: teens, teenagers, child development, nature versus nurture, child psychology, teen violence, super-predators, duke university, dr. kenneth dodge

• Disney Pulls Hannah Montana Diabetes Episode

  Hannah Montana has managed to piss off a bunch of parents. But it wasn't with her music. Apparently the Disney Channel pulled what was going to be the first episode of the new season because some parents who saw it early complained. Read More... Posted Nov 12 2008, 05:15 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: television, disney, parents, teens, teenagers, disney channel, hannah montana, diabetes, miley cyrus, billy ray cyrus, celebrity kids, sugar, celebrity gossip, Brett Singer, jonas brothers, nick jonas, hannah montana pictures, hannah montana episode pulled after parents complained, diabetic, insulin, miley ray cyrus