Teens & Pop Culture

Kids are aging and becoming teens how to make them grow right at home.

Like the Harry Potter series before it, the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer has been lauded for getting teens and tweens excited about reading, but since the target audience for the books is...

Media research from TV companies who are paid to find no correlation between media violence and bad kids find no correlation between media violence and bad kids. Parents blame the very actors and...

It’s everywhere, the media’s influence is invading every aspect of our lives and our teenagers lives. Teenagers are bombarded with images and messages on the computer, in their music, the TV.they...

The new dance made famous by the New Boys is the new thing and you're old news if you ain't doin it, Bubba. Sorry, man; that's what's up. That hippie crap is so 70's, break dancing is so 80's,...

Want to know what it is that your kids are texting to each other? Who exactly is their BFF? Arm yourself with the tools to understand your tween and fight back in their own language! You too...

The first thing that you need to do is to remember - when you were 17. Not the idealized memory you have of yourself, but the real you, and all your warts.In other words, as your parents saw...

Economic times are tough. More than ever we want our kids to learn financially responsible habits. In this recession period, kids are tapering back along with their families - less fast food,...

With the internet as popular as it is, preteens and teenagers have come to learn a whole new way of communicating online as well as on cell phone.

An easy and simple way to encourage your teenager to stop constantly saying the word "like" throughout every single conversation.

How does a Mom connect with her teenage daughter these days? How does a teenage daughter maintain a fragile bond with their Mom and still be independently cool? Well, of course, that depends on...

The "generation gap" had been around, well, for generations! And with the evolution of pop music over the past sixty years, the "gap" is often all about the differences that kids and parents have...

Rampant school violence is a problem for parents and educators alike. These problems can strike anywhere, anytime. When parents and teachers know how to stop school violence, they can help to...

As children move into the later teen years, they seek out ways to differentiate themselves from their parents. While some parents may regard tattooing and piercing as self mutilation, young people...

Today's young female celebrities are wealthy, popular and influential. And, in most cases, they're super skinny, too. Being very thin is a hot trend among young Hollywood celebrities. ...

Many parents still view video games as a harmless distraction for their children. This can be true; there are many games that are designed specifically for younger audiences. But over the last...