Teens & Tweens Article Listings
Miley Cyrus, Twerking and the Effects of Sexualized...
Miley Cyrus and Twerking? Only a few short years ago, who would've dreamed that these words would've been mentioned in the same sentence? It appears that Miley is desperately trying to tell the world that she's all grown up...
Read More
My Son Has Turned Our Family Into A Dysfunctional Mess
. Save Your Family From Dysfunction Because your child experiencing issues puts so much pressure on the rest of the family, it is quite common for resentments to begin to form. It can anger siblings that such a large part of the...
Read More
It Takes Empathy To Understand Young Adult Problems
We all know families that struggle with their teenage and young adults children due to drugs, alcohol, sexual promiscuity, or criminal activity. And some of us have had to deal with these problems first...
Read More
How a Bus Full of Homeless People Could Dash the Hopes of...
Imagine for a second that you have a mental illness. OK, actually. That's pretty difficult for someone without a mental illness to do. But try really hard to do this: imagine that someone you care about has an incredibly difficult...
Read More
Effective Families Are Built From the Ground Up
Everbody knows what it feels like to try and get a job done when your hearts not in it. Some mindless task, it could be digging a hole, it could be doing your taxes, but whatever it is, it feels like it takes a billion hours to finish....
Read More
Straight As Dont Make It Ok to Use Drugs
Sometimes it's a little too easy for adults to start grouping kids into categories that are a little too simplistic to have any real world value. Sure, there are good kids, and there are bad kids, but the world is often painted in...
Read More
You Have to See It To Believe it the Simple Beautiful...
Every so often a figure emerges in the news media that actually deserves our attention. The news can be filled with fluff, tabloid sensationalism, distractions and cynical reports from beyond the fringe. Malala Yousafzai, a young...
Read More
5 Things Only Someone With OCD Will Understand
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is much more common than many people realize. One in one hundred people may not sound like many when you first think about it, but it almost certainly means that one or more people that you know are...
Read More
Helping Young Girls Fight For The Right To Be Ordinary
It's a commonly held belief that we should strive for excellence in every endeavor that we undertake. Nowhere is this more glaringly obvious than in the expectations we place on today's young women and girls. It's understandably...
Read More