Your Teen's Health...
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Dealing with Teen Pregnancy
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...
Dental Health and Braces
One area of health that it’s important for teenagers to consider is their dental health. A commonly occurring impact of this is the needs to wear braces, which in...
Discussing Birth Control with Your Teen
Though the term safe sex floats around freely, the only truly safe sex is no sex at all. Any time someone engages in sexual activities there can...
Discussing Menstruation with Your Teen
Menstruation can be a very scary thing for young teens. If they know about it at all they likely know only that it involves blood and pain, and...
Discussing Sex with Your Teen
If there’s one conversation that both parents and teen approach with trepidation it’s a talk about sex. However, don’t let your dislike for the discussion keep you...
Discussing Sexuality with Your Teen
Many parents understand the importance of discussing safer sex and sexual health with their teens, but far fewer consider discussing sexuality with their teens....
Glasses and Contact Lenses During Teen Years
Eyesight problems are common amongst all ages and if left untreated can cause dreadful headaches and problems with reading. The good news is that...
Guiding Your Teen Through Adolescent Health Issues
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...
Helping Your Teen with Depression
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...
If Your Teenager is Feeling Suicidal
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...
Talking about Smoking
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...
What to Do When Puberty Arrives
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...
When Your Teen Has Acne
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....
