Search Results for 'Teen'

Arcadia teen chosen as queen of 121st Rose Parade

An Arcadia teenager has been named queen for the 2010 Pasadena Tournament of Roses. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Anne Innocenzi, a senior at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, accepted hugs and practiced her wave during an announcement ceremony t [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Drunk teens pelt police with bottles

Police used dogs, batons, helmets and shields to break up a 200-strong party on Saturday night. Hamilton area commander Inspector Rob Lindsay said police were pelted with bottles after warning the organiser of the Dinsdale party to get &quo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Teen Driving Safety Fair

Did you know traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers across the United States? Drivers aged 16- to 19-years-old have the highest average annual crash and traffic violation rates of any other age group, which mea [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Teen Read Week at the Library

The Broome County Public Library will be celebrating teens and reading during Teen Read Week, October 19-24. Teen Read Week is the national adolescent literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). The fastest [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Should you let your teen wear make-up?

One morning last year, my daughter Molly came downstairs to breakfast wearing so much eye make-up that my jaw dropped. 'Er, that's quite a lot of eye shadow for a school day . . .' I ventured weakly. 'Oh I know,' she said sweetly. 'It's fro [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Teen spirit - The secret life of Britain's teenage boys

"So what is Export?" The teenage lads look at me as if I must be joking. Jake bursts out laughing, then Elias, then the others. "Xbox," Jake says. "Not Export. Xbox – it's a computer game."We are outside [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Depression united troubled teens

A portrait of four volatile teens - angry, depressed, thrill-seeking and lost - began to emerge yesterday in a town desperately trying to understand how a gang of local boys might become cold-blooded killers. Steven Spader, 17, a high scho [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Net addiction linked to ADHD in teens

Children and teens with ADHD, or who are depressed or hostile, may be prone to becoming addicted to using the internet, a new study suggests. Internet addiction is not an official diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, but some [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Teens Trends and So Cal Style

Southern California teens have a variety of shopping hot spots from which to choose—from the swap meet to Forever 21 to Anthropologie. But what all these girls have in common is a unique sense of fashion and style. Contributing writer [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

One in 10 teens has had unsafe sex, survey shows

WHILE young people aged between 16 and 19 know about the importance of safe sex, one in 10 has had unprotected sex, a survey by research company TNS Healthcare has found. The survey, which polled 200 teenagers via an online questionnaire i [...]

Posted On : Oct, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Car Owning Teens Have More Crashes

According to a new study, parents should think twice before giving in to their teenagers demand for their own cars, as doing so can have dangerous consequences. It seems teens either owners of their own cars or with free individual use of [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Teens and sex - Can we talk?

Do you think your teen is having sex? Many parents would say no. The harsh reality is that only about half of those parents would be right. Children are engaging in sex at younger ages than in the past, experts say, and research indicates t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Teen Interactions May Cut Teen Crash

Two new studies reveal that teen crashes and risky driving behaviors such as cell phone use, failure to wear seat belts, and drinking and driving are strongly linked with the way teens and parents communicate and approach rules about safety [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Dont Get Your Teen Driver A CarSharing Is Safer

At one time, perhaps a generation ago, some experts preached that car ownership for teen drivers was one of the best strategies for emphasizing responsibility and accountability. If teens had to manage maintenance and other costs for their [...]