Your Teen's Health
Below are our 11 articles in the 'your teen's health' category:
The UK has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Europe. Politicians and experts keep debating the causes for it, and possible solutions, but the fact is that it’s not decreasing.
It’s a ...
Birth control can be a tough topic for parents and teens to discuss, but it is a relevant issue regarding teen health and safety. This article offers parents information on speaking to their teens ...
Discussing menstruation with your teen can be difficult for everyone involved. This article offers parents advice about such conversations, including to hold them in private, to bring along “props” ...
Parents and teenagers alike dread discussing sex with each other. This article offers parents some advice on how to make the most about such conversations including discussing rather than lecturing, ...
Discussing sex and sexuality with teens may not be the highlight of a parent’s life but it is something that every parent should consider. This article offers parents advice about holding such ...
The teenage years are a minefield, not only for the teens themselves, but also for parents - in fact, maybe even more for them. That’s because parents know a lot of what to expect, and just how ...
It can be difficult at times to distinguish between the moods of teens and true depression. They can display a lot of the same characteristics, but where moods come and go like the wind, ...
Whenever we read about a teenager committing suicide it seems like such a waste of a life. There’s no good suicide, of course, but for a teenager, with a full life ahead of them, to end things ...
We all know smoking is bad in every possible way and that it's certainly not cool to smoke. But each generation has it learn its lessons anew. Your teen might think that smoking looks like the ...
Puberty…it’s the great divide between childhood and the teenage years, although, in fact, it continues through most of those teenage years. It’s physical and emotional, and it can be scary for ...
Teens and acne…unfortunately, the two just seem to go together. Almost all teens are going to suffer from acne at some point, be it to a greater or lesser degree. There’s nothing anyone can do to ...
