School and Academics
Making Colleges Take Notice: 3 Things You Should Know
With the college admissions process becoming more and more competitive, some students are using an arsenal of unique tactics to get themselves noticed. Here's what you need to know about what really gets you noticed as a college applicant.
College Applications - Simplified!
How do you stand out from the crowd when applying for college? What will make you the 1 in 10 that admissions officers choose? The answer: a well-refined and organized application.
High School Summer Reading List
We've looked high and low for exciting new titles for young adults. Here are our list of favorites to exhilarate, fascinate, and yes...educate.
Back to School Book Picks for Middle and High School
Find out what teachers recommend your teens and adolescents read to get them ready for school.
Social and Emotional
Should Students and Teachers Be Online "Friends"?
Is it appropriate for your child to "friend" a teacher on a social network? Find out what teachers and students have to say.
Is Your Child Sexting? What Parents Need to Know
Parents may never have heard of it, but surveys show that 20 to 60 percent of teens are "sexting". What is sexting and how can parents deal with it?
Talking to Your Boy About Sex
Regardless of which parent it falls to to explain relationships and sex to your son, it's an important discussion to have that will benefit your family for years to come.
Kids and Credit Cards: 7 Things Parents Need to Know
Teens with credit cards are not exactly new, but the credit crisis is. Here are 7 tips for how parents can teach financial responsibility to their children.
Milestones and Development
Getting the Best Help for Your High Schooler
From the classroom to the playing field, standardized tests to college applications, getting outside help in high school - in the form of SAT prep classes, individual subject tutors, athletic trainers, and private college counselors, among others -has become as mainstream as studying the ...
The Parent's Guide to Body Decoration
When it comes to body decoration, teens are often from Mars and parents from, well, Earth. Parents generally aren't fond of the idea of marking up their babies with tattoos, piercings, and strange dye jobs.
The Top 10 Tech Skills Your Teen Needs Now
Which computer applications are important to your teen's future, and which are distracting her from her homework? A group of professionals from leading Silicon Valley corporations was unanimous in recommending the following 10 skills.
Troubled Teens or Learning Different?
Fifteen to 20 percent of the U.S. population has a learning difference such as ADD, dyslexia, or any number of processing difficulties. Some are so good at coping that the issues don't become apparent until they're teens.
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- 7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens
- Getting Into College: The Personal Statement
- Is Your Child Sexting? What Parents Need to Know
- Understanding Teen Decision Making
- Should Students and Teachers Be Online "Friends"?
- What Happens Over Time To Those Who Bully And Those Who Are Victimized?
- Surviving the Executive Functioning Demands of High School
- Auditory Processing Disorder: He Can Hear You, But it Makes No Sense
- Teen Curfews: How to Set Limits but Set Your Child Free
- 1 in 3 Unprepared for Life After High School
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