How to help your teen make healthy choices 9 Articles

by Theresa Littleton

Your teenager is at a party. A friend offers him or her a smoke, a beer, or a joint. This is the moment of truth. Is your teen ready to make a healthy choice? Many teens today will face this challenge, and how ready th...read more

by Audrey Hebson

Adolescence is a difficult period of life, as teenagers deal with physical changes and the social adjustments of junior and senior high. Parents then, need to guide their teens through this time, by helping them make heal...read more

by MJ Suttor

On the surface a teenager named Jamie looked fit and healthy; however, to look a little deeper one would see a girl who was overcome with stress, not eating very healthily, and exercising excessively. Teachers became alarm...read more

by Melody Owens

Mom, what can I have to eat?...Oh I've heard these words hundreds of times. How do I get my teenagers to make good healthy choices? Especially when it comes to diet, exercise, the friends they choose, and the dozens of o...read more

by Tammie Washington

Teen Health is a subject that you do not hear a lot about. I believe one of the most over looked issues is emotional health. Teenagers are committing suicide at an alarming rate. They are also murdering their peers in th...read more

by Rex Campbell

When you first think about helping teens make healthy choices, you tend to reflect on your own child hood. People try to relate to the way they were raised, and how there parents influenced there decisions. When the subjec...read more

by Sheryl Nicholson

Hold a KTC. I have 5 children and one of the best tools I used when parenting them was holding a KTC. I used to be the parent that TOLD the kids what to do. I learned quickly that NO ONE likes to be told what to so - wh...read more

by Kelly Wolf

Nothing can help parents comprehend the kind of pressures teens deal with today. Even parents who were in school during the late 1980's and early 1990's can't understand everything today's teen is bombarded with. Parents...read more

by Shari Deaven

Believe it or not your teenager actually likes you! Don't let that snarl or the angry words push you away, they are secretly hoping you won't go. Your teenager's angry outbursts are normal to a degree; teenage hormones a...read more