Teen Health and Safety

When Your Teen Is an Addict According to Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), half of all high school students have tried drugs by the time they graduate from high school. Most teens try drugs and alcohol to fit in and have a good time ...

Injuries, mishaps, and untimely deaths -- what do you know about the accident statistics afflicting Americans? ...

Don't punish your child for smoking. ...

Teens and Drug Abuse: Rx and OTC Medications Turns out, parents talking to kids about drugs really does work. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America has released the findings from their 2008 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS), which foun...

Teen Steroid Use Think steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs are only a problem in pro sports? Think again. The desire for a competitive edge can overwhelm the judgment of high-school athletes, too. And the prevalence of steroids, HGH (...

Motivating Your Teen to Stay Active Obesity is no longer just a problem among adults. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the number of overweight children and teens in our nation has more than tripled over the past th...

When Teens Obsess About Their Weight Could Your Teen Have an Eating Disorder? With the fashion and entertainment industries' super-thin stars serving as role models, it's no wonder that many young girls don't like what they see in the mirror. Th...

When it comes to screen time and kids, it isn't all bad news. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines on how to make screen time healthy and educational.

Teens and Meth Use Teenagers encounter peer pressure every day. Wanting to fit in and feel like they belong, many teens are tempted by drugs and alcohol, which are readily available to them. These kids may think their experiments with drugs can b...

Tween Nutritional Requirements Fact You cannot know how much your tween needs to eat on any given day because growth patterns differ tremendously from child to child and from one day to the next. While some tweens grow in a slow-but-steady fashi...

Get up to speed on the how's and why's of teen drinking. Take our quiz! ...

Eating Disorders: Anorexia and BulimiaEating disorders are diseases in which weight control and eating behaviors have gone so far as to become life- and health-threatening. They can result from a diet taken too seriously, a hope to improve perfor...

The Olympic Games are steeped in enough controversy to make a White House press secretary throw in the towel. How much do you know about these unsportsman-like scandals? ...

Do you think you know everything about the Greek Games? We challenge you to take our quiz! ...

Take a safety quiz -- based on real-life situations -- and find out just how much you know. ...

The long-term effects of steroids on a child's final adult height are not clear, but questions have been raised. ...

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Find out what you need to do to keep your child out of harm's way. Take this quiz, based on Gavin de Becker's best-selling book, Protecting the Gift. ...