Encouraging your child to avoid drugs, alcohol and tobacco starts early on. The following general guidelines are from the U.S. Department of Education.
Review the basics of healthy eating, then focus a teenager's diet toward his or her specific developmental needs.
Keep a healthy balance between nutrition and foods teens like. It doesn't matter how nutritious their lunch is if they won't eat it.
Although the rules of good nutrition should be your guide, most teens are not going to be happy with a steady diet of carrot and celery sticks.
Teenagers need to see how money works in the real world, including where it comes from and where it all seems to go.
Some planning - and some rules - will help everyone sleep a
little easier.
If they are what they eat, let them be happy, healthy and full of fun.
Networking, answering ads and creative thinking are the keys to a successful teen job search.
Focus on balance, making sure there's ample time for school, studying, after-school activities and the job. It's difficult but it can be done.
This parenting hurdle takes particular patience and understanding. You'll find a sense of humor a valuable asset.
Make the rules clear and fair so you won't have to renegotiate every time your teen wants to use the car.
Quit nagging and get better results through encouragement and motivation.
It sounds contradictory, but to communicate well with a teen you need to - above all - learn to listen.
Even strong students can flounder in the face of added challenges and greater expectations in the upper grades. Here's how you can reinforce basic study habits with your teen.
There are signs that children are thinking about hurting themselves - and actions you can take to prevent them from doing so.
There are signs that a teenager is thinking about suicide - and actions you can take to prevent it.
Every child learns differently and excels using different learning strategies. Here are some ideas to help your student with a learning disability learn how to spell.
Organizing ideas and cramming them into a correctly written paragraph is a huge obstacle for many students with learning disabilities. Here are some ideas to ease instruction and move your...
Writing a sentence is difficult for students with learning disabilities, let alone a whole paragraph. How can a student with a learning disability learn to write a five-paragraph essay?
Children and teens who have learning disabilities sometimes have low self-esteem and suffer in more areas than just the classroom. Here are a few steps to help your teen build self-esteem and...
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