Teens

Teachers should not be looking for girlfriends or boyfriends among their students.

How to keep kids from smoking and deal with a teen who does.

Recurrent headaches are very common complaints in both children and adolescents.

Breast development during puberty occurs in about 70 percent of boys. Get information about this embarrassing problem.

It can be "normal" for a girl to skip a few months of periods, especially early on. But when is it a cause for concern?

An obsessive interest in gore, serial killers, rapists, suicide, and depression is definitely a cause for concern.

At age 10, preadolescent hormones can fuel "puppy love."

An 11-year-old is bewildered by the changes happening to her body.

Learn how to prepare your teen for prom night.

Our expert tells a teen, "I am here to tell you that you can feel a lot better about yourself and your life."

Here are the words you need to talk with your preteens and teenagers about terrorism and war.

After a bad first experience with sex, a teen wants to know what she can do to feel better about herself.

The athletic feats that a young female skater can perform are not so easy once she matures.

Here, a parenting expert and a family therapist provide support and advice for addressing the topic of racist jokes and racist language with your teen.

Students are answering their true calling when they pick up a book to read on their own or challenge themselves in their coursework.

Don't be worried about your son's occasional show-and-tell with other boys.

Your role as a caring parent is to advise your child against any potentially dangerous activity -- whether or not you yourself have engaged in it.

Find out at what point asymmetric breast development should be evaluated.