Sex education is broad term that encompasses a wide range of topics that relate to human sexual anatomy, sexual intercourse, sexual reproduction, reproductive health, reproductive rights, contraception, and other facets of human sexual behavior. Sex education can be a part of school programs but it can also be informally taught by parents or guardians or [...] Read more »
How to Help Your Adolescent Child
Being a teen today means you face many a problem. And being the parent of a teen is equally challenging. Both parent and child need all the help they can get in order to do well at school, and possibly college, and to develop a loving and respectful relationship as the adolescent grows into adulthood. [...] Read more »
Peer Pressure and Today?s Teenagers
Every teen needs to belong or feel recognized by his or her own age group. Teens feel they need to conform to peer group norms and values. This is a normal behavior because teens want to be with people of their own age. At the onset of adolescence, children start to spend a lot of [...] Read more »
Teenagers and Self-Esteem
High self-esteem is what we all should have. Low self-esteem is never welcome. Self-esteem basically means how you think about yourself, how you judge yourself and how you score or rate your success in life. We all need high self-esteem and teenagers are particularly important in this area. Teens who are down on themselves, who [...] Read more »
Drug Use in Schools
The availability of drugs at schools has increased over the last ten years although the overall use of illicit drugs has declined. Yet too many teenagers are still abusing drugs. In the National Institute on Drug Abuse 2005 Monitoring the Future survey researchers found that 50% of high school seniors report some use of an [...] Read more »