- 21. Diabetes
- (Diabetes)
- ... Frequent infections, such as gum or skin infections and vaginal or bladder infections Although type 1 diabetes can develop at any age, it typically appears during childhood or adolescence. Type 2 ...
- 22. Healthy Children
- (sinoaid)
- ... getting results for her efforts. Teen Adolescence can be a challenge for parents. Your youngster may at times be a source of frustration and exasperation, not to mention financial stress. But ...
- 23. Stress, College Admissions, and the Parent's Role
- (Young Adult)
- ... teaching youngsters a wide repertoire of positive coping strategies. Children equipped with healthy ways to manage stress will choose those strategies rather than dangerous quick fixes. In late adolescence, ...
- 24. Talk to Your Teen About Drugs—And Keep Talking
- (Substance Abuse)
- ... of Pediatrics’s Committee on Substance Abuse. “Younger teens tend to think mainly in terms of today, tomorrow and the next day,” he explains. “It’s not until much later in adolescence that kids begin ...
- 25. Dangers of Cocaine
- (Substance Abuse)
- ... self-esteem. Help your child deal with physical body changes. During adolescence, boys and girls undergo a growth spurt associated with weight gain and change in body shape. Some teens are tempted to ...
- 26. Making Friends in High School
- (School)
- “I don’t have any friends. At school, everyone’s always making fun of me.” Few words are as painful to hear from a child of any age. Being unpopular during adolescence, however, can inflict deep, long-lasting ...
- 27. Helping Your Teen Succeed In School
- (School)
- ... nodding off during first or second period. As with so many other idiosyncrasies of adolescence, biology is to blame. Sleep researchers at the E. P. Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory in Providence, ...
- 28. Helping Girls Overcome the Education Gender Gap
- (School)
- Young girls frequently experience a crisis of confidence beginning in early adolescence, when self-esteem is inextricably bound to their changing physical appearance and body image. A survey of seven thousand ...
- 29. Gifted Students
- (School)
- ... while boys and girls with genius-level IQs are at extremely high risk of abusing drugs. It’s really not all that surprising. Intelligence is not as valued during adolescence as it is later in life, which ...
- 30. Conflicts with the Teacher
- (School)
- ... youngsters are old enough to handle minor crises themselves. Offer advice, of course, but resist the urge to dash to the rescue. One of the central lessons of adolescence is coming to the realization that ...
- 31. Nourishing Your Growing Teenager
- (Nutrition)
- ... hour, day after day? Does it seem like shortly after a trip to the supermarket, it’s time to go back because the cupboards are becoming bare again? As part of adolescence, your child’s appetite may be ...
- 32. Food Faux Pas of Adolescence
- (Nutrition)
- Food Faux Pas Number One: Skipping Meals, Beginning with Breakfast In a Gallup poll of more than four hundred boys and girls aged nine to fifteen, fully half claimed to skip breakfast on school mornings. ...
- 33. Food and Adolescent Acne
- (Nutrition)
- More than 80% of teenagers have acne, so if your youngster manages to get through adolescence with no more than a couple of skin blemishes, she’s one of the lucky few. Contrary to what most people believe, ...
- 34. Calcium: The Bone Builder
- (Nutrition)
- Adolescence provides a window of opportunity for avoiding osteoporosis later in life. The disease silently depletes the bones of calcium, typically over the course of decades. Eventually the bones lose ...
- 35. A Teenager’s Nutritional Needs
- (Nutrition)
- ... Calories are the measurement used to express the energy delivered by food. The body demands more calories during early adolescence than at any other time of life. On average, boys require about two thousand ...
- 36. A Sensible Physical Fitness Plan
- (Fitness)
- Early adolescence is when the differences in youngsters’ size, strength and coordination are the most pronounced. Not coincidentally, this is also the stage that separates the athletes from the non-athletes. ...
- 37. When To Let Your Teenager Start Dating
- (Dating & Sex)
- ... prompting. Share a story from your own adolescence. “My first year in college, I fell madly in love with this girl named Elyse. We spent every moment together. I couldn’t imagine ever being with anyone ...
- 38. Teen Love Connection
- (Dating & Sex)
- ... the fact is, once kids approach adolescence and puberty, most become interested in dating. Here’s how to help your teen (and yourself) through this complicated thing called teen love. Take It Seriously ...
- 39. Four Stages of Coming Out
- (Dating & Sex)
- ... sexuality for perhaps the first time, they may become romantically involved with a number of partners. You could almost say they’re going through a delayed adolescence, having experiences that straight ...
- 40. Adolescent Sexuality: Talk the Talk Before They Walk the Walk
- (Dating & Sex)
- Adolescence can be tough enough to get through without questions of sex, sexuality, and sexual identity. But adolescents are humans, too — no matter how alien they may seem to their parents at times. Openly ...
