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• No Hugs For You At Some High Schools

  According to this New York Times article, hugging is very popular among high school students. A video on the site mentions Hug High School, and calls teenage hugging a "sociological phenomenon." (Hey, whatever floats your sociological boat.) But at some schools, the big bad grown-ups decided that enough is enough. The Times tells us that "schools from Hillsdale, N.J., to Bend, Ore., wary in a litigious era about sexual harassment or improper touching — or citing hallway clogging and late arrivals to class — have banned hugging or imposed a three-second rule." Read More... Posted May 29 2009, 12:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: news, school, teenagers, high school, New Jersey, wtf, rules, weird, Brett Singer, 3 second rule, high school bans hugging, no touching

• Is it a Lucky Boy Who Dates Obama's Daughter?

  The president is nervous.  Not about the economy (well, probably) or swine flu (OK, maybe that too).  But President Barack Obama is a dad after all, and he can't help but think about what will happen when daughters Sasha and Malia start dating. Read More... Posted May 21 2009, 01:24 PM by JeanneSager with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, boys, daughters, dating, malia obama, obama, daughter, Sasha Obama, Jeanne Sager, president obama, sasha and malia

• 13 Year Old Alfie Definitely Not A Dad

  It's official -- Alfie Patten is not the father of baby Maisie. Biologically, at least.   Read More... Posted May 18 2009, 09:56 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, news, teenagers, babies, law, england, teen pregnancy, minors, legal, Brett Singer, british, daily news, alfie patten, kids having kids, alfie is not a baby daddy, alfie patten is not the father

• When Mommy Becomes Mom

  I never thought I'd be that sappy kind of mother. You know the type. She buries her face in old onesies when she finds them at the bottom of the closet and doesn't come up coughing from the scent of mold growing on super-old spit-up stains.  OK, I'm NOT that kind of mother.  But I am the kind who hates being called "Mom." I prefer "Mommy," thank you very much. Read More... Posted May 15 2009, 11:04 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: mother, mom, parents, teenagers, names, growing up, Jeanne Sager, mommy, little girl, parents names

• Parents Enraged by Emergency Contraception Commercial

  British parents are up in arms about this commercial for Levonelle, an over-the-counter emergency contraception pill. After the commercial was aired on three TV channels, hundreds of parents called radio shows to express their outrage. "Even though it was shown after 9pm my teenage daughters were watching,” one father said. “The worst thing is it makes it seem normal to go and get this pill. We've crossed a moral line with this." Read More... Posted May 14 2009, 06:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: parents, teenagers, abortion, emergency contraception, commercial, levonelle

• Families Still Spending Big on Prom

  If you have watched a teen movie from any of the last few decades (pick one, any one), there's one lesson to be learned. Your kids have to go to prom.  If they don't, apparently, something dasterdly will befall them, and they will regret it for the REST of their lives. Like, totally, forever and ever and ever, along with their BFFs. Not buying it? Me neither. But parents across the nation are. Read More... Posted May 06 2009, 01:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, high school, money, tuition, prom, economy, Jeanne Sager, economic meltdown

• They Say: Kids Who Watch Adult TV Have Sex Earlier

  Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have found a link between the amount of adult television children watch and the age at which teens become sexually active. Researchers tracked 754 children between the ages 6 and 18 at two stages in their lives, first to see how much adult television they watched over the weekend as young kids, and later to see the age at which they first became sexually active. Read More... Posted May 05 2009, 11:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: children, television, tv, parents, teenagers, media, they say, adult content

• What Burlesque Can Teach Your Daughter

  Burlesque is not the first thing that comes to mind when I consider how to impart healthy self-esteem to girls. But Deirdre Timmons, the director of A Wink and a Smile—a new documentary about the resurgence of burlesque—thinks her 12-year-old’s exposure to burlesque has helped her have "no body image issues whatsoever." Read More... Posted May 01 2009, 05:00 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, daughters, body image, dance, burlesque, objectification, empower

• UPDATE: Jamie Foxx Apologizes To Miley Cyrus

  Jamie Foxx issued a mea culpa on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. EOnline.com reports that Foxx responded with a "Yeah" when Jay Leno asked him "Did you say something inappropriate?" His full apology, from EOnline, after the jump. Read More... Posted Apr 18 2009, 11:30 PM by Brett Singer with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: television, disney, music, parents, teens, teenagers, disney channel, hannah montana, controversy, miley cyrus, billy ray cyrus, celebrity kids, celebrity gossip, Brett Singer, feud, miley ray cyrus, pop stars, Miley Ray Cyrus Hannah Montana Stewart Lipschutz, teen stars, Jamie Foxx, Radiohead, jamie foxx insults miley cyrus, celebrity daughter, celebrity dad, grammys, Thom Yorke, Corinne Foxx, slam, sirius radio, trash talk

• Abercrombie and Fitch (Finally!) Losing Its Cachet

  Even recessions have a silver lining. Overpriced and oversexed teen clothier Abercrombie and Fitch is feeling the pinch in a big way as teenagers (or their parents) wise up to the fact that it’s just not worth it to pay $58 for a scarf—even if an impossibly dreamy, half-naked hunk is plastered over the cash register. Read More... Posted Apr 13 2009, 06:28 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: business, teenagers, clothes, economy, recession, abercrombie and fitch, retailers, sales down

• Judge Sentences Families to Do Puzzles

  Riddle me this: how do you make parents and their teens work together to create something meaningful? If you're Judge John Sholden, you assign them a thousand-piece puzzle to put together . . . or pay a $500 fine. Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 04:25 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: games, teens, toys, teenagers, puzzles, mediation, Jeanne Sager, judge, truancy, skipping school, family strife, parenting teens

• They Say: Bipolar Children Are an “American Phenomenon”

  In a fiery interview with Northwestern professor Christopher Lane, journalist Phillip Dawdy explains his belief that parents need to stop trusting that the doctor knows best when it comes to mental health diagnoses of young children. I offer his arguments here for discussion’s sake, with the caveat that neither I nor Dawdy are pediatric psychiatrists—but he at least has spent many years researching the field. In 2005, at least 2.2 million American children were being treated for mental health disorders, a number that has skyrocketed in the last decade and a half. And in 2007, 23 babies less than one-year-old were prescribed antipsychotics. Read More... Posted Apr 10 2009, 12:56 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: kids, teenagers, mental health, drugs, ADHD, bipolar, antipsychotic drugs, pharmaceutical companies, medicating children, bipolar 2 disorder, pediatric psychology, over prescribing

• Teen Sends Over $4,000 Worth of Text Messages in a Month

  Last month, Verizon upped the price of text messaging to 20 cents per text. That still doesn’t seem like much money—unless you’re sending and receiving about 300 text messages a day. Read More... Posted Apr 08 2009, 06:13 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: school, teenagers, text messages, phone, hammer, cell phone bill, dena christoffersen

• When Mom's a Sex Offender

  Alex Dinkel just wants his mom to watch him graduate from high school. Unfortunately for him, Jeni Lee Dinkel will be arrested if she steps on the high school campus.  She had sex with one of her son's fifteen-year-old classmates in 2007 and is now a registered sex offender.  The boy Jeni Lee had sex with is no longer at the school, but officials are still saying nixing requests for her to attend Alex's graduation. If it sounds cut and dried, it isn't. Read More... Posted Apr 02 2009, 10:30 AM by JeanneSager with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, education, parents, teenagers, high school, child safety, child abuse, Jeanne Sager

• School Says No Touching - Ever

  Want to make a bunch of middle school kids with their hormones a ragin' really crazy? Tell them they can't touch other. No high five. No bumping fists. No noogies. And definitely no holding hands - nope, not even locking pinky fingers.  Administrators at a middle school in Connecticut have put out a strict no touching policy in an attempt to cut down on "horseplay" among the students. Read More... Posted Mar 30 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: education, teenagers, middle school, schools, hormones, Jeanne Sager

• Why Teen Girls are Taking Drugs Meant for Cows

  It's rumor and conjecture at this point, but Wisconsin health officials are taking seriously claims that a rash of teenage girls have taking drugs commonly used on cows to force their bodies to abort babies.  The kids allegedly got hold of prostaglandins, drugs used by farmers to regulate cows' heat cycles for breeding, and ingested them as "a cheap and easy way to end their pregnancies without their parents finding out." Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 05:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: education, teens, teenagers, birth control, abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, animals, abstinence, Jeanne Sager, teen girls

• School Assignment Forces Kids to Buy Birth Control

  What would you do if your kid was sent out to buy condoms . . . on a school assignment? If you're Linda Strobl, you take it to the Canadian newspapers in outrage.  The irony? Strobl is a public health nurse, who says it's OK to teach kids about sexually transmitted diseases. Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 03:23 PM by JeanneSager with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: education, teens, teenagers, birth control, schools, condoms, STDs, Jeanne Sager, embarrassing kids, sexual health

• Why Teens Are Quick to Blame Rihanna

  In the wake of a chilling survey that found that nearly half of Boston area teens believe it was Rihanna’s fault that her boyfriend Chris Brown beat her up so badly she had to be hospitalized, the New York Times has spoken with teenagers around the country and the resulting article is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in years. Read More... Posted Mar 21 2009, 05:45 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, dating violence, abusive relationships, blame the victim, chris brown, rihanna

• Can Facebook Cut the Apron Strings?

  While we adults are caught up in catching up on our past on Facebook, there's a possibility our kids are going to miss out on one of the great joys of late teenagehood. Escaping.  An interesting piece by Peggy Orenstein in the New York Times this week ponders whether kids will be able "to get busy with the embarrassing, exciting, muddy, wonderful work of creating an adult identity" with four hundred of their old high school buddies watching over a T-1 line.  Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: education, teenagers, Facebook, MySpace, college, social networking, social media, friends, friendships, relationships, growing up, Jeanne Sager

• How to Find a Job in This Economy: Let Your Kid on YouTube

  Things were looking bleak for the former vice president of marketing at the Tampa Bay Lightning - until his son got involved. Mark Gullett lost his job the Florida hockey team on Thursday. That night, his fourteen-year-old posted a heartrending video on YouTube and job offers started pouring in. Read More... Posted Mar 15 2009, 11:47 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, father, teens, teenagers, videos, economy, son, Jeanne Sager, economic crisis, job loss

• Girl Sends 6,473 Texts in One Month, Fingers Don't Fall Off

  In my busiest texting month, the month prior to the birth of my daughter Molly last June, when my friends were often texting me with messages like, "still pregnant?", I only sent about 50 texts ("yes."). Then again, I'm ever-so-slightly older than the average teenager, who seems to be permanently attached to his or her cell phone, which, I might add, should more precisely be called a text phone. Do teenagers even talk on the darn things? Julie Zingeser, a 15-year-old from Rockville, MD, doesn't seem to have the time. That's because Julie texted her friends 6,473 times in one month. With all that texting, who has time to talk? Read More... Posted Mar 12 2009, 12:01 PM by KeriF with | with no comments Filed under: teenagers, texting, Keri Fisher

• Bedtime: Does Your Kid Have One?

  Do your kids have a regular bedtime, like Sasha and Malia Obama? (The first kids, aged seven and ten, are in bed by eight p.m., according to reports.) Or do they just keep going and going, exhausted little energizer bunnies, till late into the night? Growing up in the freewheeling 70s, I remember being smug about my family's lack of set bedtimes -- and I remember falling asleep in school all the time. In fact, my bedtime-free childhood seemed less and less fun as I got older, leading to mornings of scrambling out of bed, late as usual, and arriving at high school (college, work) with wacky hair and bleary eyes.  Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 03:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: toddler, school, teens, teenagers, tweens, sleep, sleeping, sleep deprivation, schoolkids, sleep needs, brain chemistry, school hours, sleep habits, dr. perri klass, sleep researchers, circadian rhythms

• Mamas Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up to Drink and Party

  The secret to teetotalling kids may have been discovered by a teen with a taste for the straight life.  Chelsea Lynn Jurman, a seventeen-year-old from New York, is one of forty finalists in the new incarnation of the Westinghouse Science competition, with her social science study of what influence talk of parents' wild party days has on their teen's drinking habits. Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 01:36 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, drinking, alcohol, study, role models, survey, Jeanne Sager, they say, Westinghouse Science, social science, youthful indiscretion

• A Safer Space for Kids Online: Hope or Hype?

  Concerned about the dangers of online predators, mom-of-five Mary Kay Hoal launched a social networking site that she hopes will provide a safe space for kids aged 9 to 18 to interact. But can places like Yoursphere -- which charges a monthly access fee and checks to make sure nobody on it is a registered sex offender -- really serve as alternatives to Facebook (or to MySpace, the Sodom and Gomorrah of Hoal's press release, although nobody really uses MySpace anymore)? And is an alternative even needed? Read More... Posted Mar 10 2009, 04:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, internet, Facebook, MySpace, Harvard, online, online predators, texting, teen, online safety, mary kay hoal, berkman center, yoursphere

• Mom Buys High School Musical Star's Condoms: Would You?

  If your first reaction to news that High School Musical star Zac Efron's mom buys his condoms is a grimace, don't worry. I don't like thinking of my three-year-old one day having sex either.  But Efron is twenty, and his mom wants him to be safe. Wouldn't you? Read More... Posted Mar 07 2009, 12:16 PM by JeanneSager with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, high school musical, teenagers, birth control, condoms, teen pregnancy, AIDS, zac efron, survey, Jeanne Sager, STD