Teens & Tweens Article Listings

Should Parents Monitor Their Teens Online?
17January

Should Parents Monitor Their Teens Online?

A question that has increasingly come up for parents in recent years is how involved should I be in monitoring the time my teen spends online? There are many reasons that a parent may wish to monitor their teen's online activity, but it...

The Positive Effects of Video Games: Why You Should Let Your Kids Game
15January

The Positive Effects of Video Games: Why You Should Let...

Many studies have been done on the negative effects on children who play video games. Video games are an easy target for people who want to put the blame on something for the social problems we face today. While there are negative sides...

Who Are Your Kids Spending Time With?
15January

Who Are Your Kids Spending Time With?

  The focus of many teenagers’ lives is their friends. Nowadays, they can talk, text tweet, or Facebook each other about anything they want. Studies show that the actions and behaviors of teens’ can be almost...

Hope Through Education and Mentorship
15January

Hope Through Education and Mentorship

George and Johnny Huynh have beat the odds and come out on top of an incredibly difficult situation. Their parents had come from Vietnam and their father was a military vet who had fought along the United States in the Vietnam war. They...

Is Jennifer Lawrence Speaking Out About Body Image Helping Young Girls?
14January

Is Jennifer Lawrence Speaking Out About Body Image...

As Jennifer Lawrence becomes increasingly famous and popular, she also continues to stand out as one of the most outspoken and opinionated young women in Hollywood. Most recently, she has been using her position in the spotlight to try...

14 Celebrities You Wouldn't Think Struggle With Mental Health Issues
14January

14 Celebrities You Wouldn't Think Struggle With Mental...

Copyright Wikimedia Commons 1 - John Nash - Schizophrenia -  John Nash is a Nobel Prize winning mathematician who became widely known after having the film A Beautiful Mind based on his life. Though incredibly successful in his...

15 Resilient Female Characters That You Could Learn Some Lessons From
14January

15 Resilient Female Characters That You Could Learn Some...

Because we all want to go out there and kick some butt.   1. Some Kind of Wonderful: Amanda Jones Amanda was initially portrayed as the beautiful girl that the rich guy wanted and used to his advantage. They make out and the guy...

15 Movie Kids That Probably Just Needed Better Parents
14January

15 Movie Kids That Probably Just Needed Better Parents

Am I the only one who thinks to myself, "Uh, where is your mother?" when watching adventurous teenagers and kids get themselves into scary, dangerous predicaments? Maybe so, here's my list of hooligans that could have used a tiny bit of...

Are Video Games Turning Your Teenager Into A Robot?
14January

Are Video Games Turning Your Teenager Into A Robot?

These days, jam packed with technology, our youth and video games are closer than ever. Video games, especially violent ones, have quite the thrashed reputation. Coined as the reason the younger generation is disobedient, lazy,...