Parenting Daily

I really enjoyed collecting news involving teens and teen issues yesterday, so I’m going to do that again today.

Today we’re starting with a topic brought about by the alleged pregnancy pact in Massachusetts (17 girls pregnant at the same time in one particular high school). This site has a list of good talking points for your kids on the issue of teen pregnancy. Check it out whether you’ve got sons or daughters!

Remember how we talked teens who exercise smoke less? Well, in keeping with our nation’s obesity problems, fewer teens must be getting physically active. This article in the Washington Post talks about how the many-years trend of decreasing smoking behaviors among teens has hit a plateau.

More sad summer news. It seems a lot of attention is given to drowning when it involves toddlers and elementary age children. We tend to think that teens know better, unless they’re in an ocean and a shark attacks. In this case, this 16 year old and friends were trying to swim in a river and ended up drowning. Also worth talking to your teen about.

It’s always thoroughly refreshing, for me, when I hear about teen males who read! I’ve really had very little success inspiring teen boys to read for pleasure. Anyway, check out this teen’s reading interests and maybe you’ll come up with some insight into your own teen’s reading habits.

Aha! An upside to the gas crunch! Although, this would have been highly depressing for me when I was a teen! Cruising around with my friends once I had my license was such sweet freedom!

Enjoy your reading and let me know if you have any tips on news involving teens or their parents!

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