Teens & Pop Culture

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...

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,...

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

While writing a blog, or an Internet diary, may be a valid form of artistic expression for many teens, a large percentage of parents are concerned about the possibility of sexual predators, or...

Online chat rooms can give your teen the ability to converse with other teens all around the world. But with the thrilling freedom of this technology comes certain dangers that parents should be...

Parents should monitor their children's use of video games, since recent studies have shown that that playing such games can seriously cut into time that should be reserved for reading, doing...

Whether your teen decides to become a vegetarian for humanitarian or health reasons, it's important to respect his decision and to support him any way that you can. Parents often try to change...

Living with teenagers usually means having to live with their music as well. While the music scene hasn't really changed as much over the years as your kids would like you to think, you may still...

Staying knowledgeable about your teen's favorite bands can be a real challenge, especially since musical trends can ebb and flow according to the fickle tastes of young audiences. Whether your...

It's inevitable that one day your teen will put on an outfit that you will find either shocking, in poor taste or just downright strange. While your parental instinct may compel you to intervene,...

When it comes to monitoring the television programming your teen watches, the problems aren't much different than when you were her age. Most parents have two concerns with their teens and...

Facebook began as a college-only website where students could talk to each other about classes and issues. Users could only have profiles associated with their college, using their school email...