Search Results for 'Teen'

Eating Together as a Family May Prevent Teen Drug

It’s not only what you put on your kids’ dinner plate that’s important, but whether you actually sit down to eat the meal together. In fact, it could determine whether your kid smokes cigarettes or uses drugs and alcohol. [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

When teen relationships go bad

As local teens return to the world of teachers, books and homework, many will also be looking forward to their first tentative steps down the path of romance. For most, those puppy-love relationships will be memorable moments they will cher [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Young people launch summer teen health campaign

As part of a drive to promote teenage health in Knowsley a group of ten young people from the THinK (Teenage Health in Knowsley) focus group have decided to put their summer holiday time to great use, by planning a road show to benefit othe [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Johns Island teen health center hosts Rock da House open hou...

The Point on Johns Island, a new health center just for teens in Charleston County, is having a, “Rock da House,” back to school open house Thursday, Aug. 27, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Aug [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Tennis - Teens Wozniacki, Wickmayer reach US Open semis

Teen upstarts Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark and Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium fought through the tension to reach their first Grand Slam semi-finals with nerve-testing US Open triumphs. Ninth seed Wozniacki, until now the top-ranked wom [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

The teen bloggers who took over the internet

It's a teenage rite of passage to invent new worlds: worlds of the imagination, gangs, cliques and clubs, worlds apart from adults. And then came the internet, where anyone can be anything, a meta-persona of your own choosing. There are hun [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2009 | Comments : 1

Teen Eco Heroes Take Biofuel to Mysore Villages

Two San Francisco Bay Area teens won Action for Nature’s coveted “Eco Heroes” award Aug. 27 for a project that aims to promote biofuel in Indian villages. Apoorva Rangan, 14, and Adarsha Shivakumar, 16, both students at Co [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Teens and prescription and OTC drugs

One in five teenagers abuses prescription drugs, thinking it is a safe and easy way to get high. Easy it might be, but safe it isn't, says the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. The first step in preventing the abuse is to include p [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Teen arraigned in Wixom beating death

A man police believe bludgeoned another man with a golf club is to face charges in the incident. Robert Lloyd Lowry, 18, of White Lake Township, was arraigned just before 1 p.m. in 52-1 District Court in Novi today on charges of second deg [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Canadian teens smoke less, drink more than OECD average

Canadian teens are among the least likely of western youths to smoke, although they are hitting the bottle more often than their counterparts in every western country but the U.K., Denmark and Finland, according to a new report. The Organ [...]

Posted On : Sep, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

The Teen Brain - The More Mature, the More Reckless

Teenagers are a famously reckless species. They floor the gas and experiment with drugs and play with guns; according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures, more than 16,000 young people die each year from unintentional in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Teens' enjoyment of school at its highest level in decades

In a post-Columbine age of school shootings and bullying, the news seems nothing short of radical: according to a leading Canadian sociologist, young people's educational experience is actually better now than it's been in generations. Reg [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Parents important in teens' smoking risk

Friends and parents have a strong influence over whether teenagers move from experimenting with cigarettes to becoming full-fledged smokers -- but so do parents, a new study finds. The study, which followed 270 teenagers who had become occa [...]

Posted On : Aug, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Don't let your teen age you

But, with equal measure, dealing with our children becoming adults overnight is just as difficult for us to cope with too.If your child has transformed into a monster since they hit 13, all is not lost. Here, Tracey Fine and Georgie Ta [...]