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Evaluating Your School District's Sex Education Program
More schools are making the discussion of human sexuality a part of their curriculum. What's a parent's role? (ages 11-16)

Helping Too-Busy Teens Beat Burnout
Concerned parents want to know how to help their stressed out, overworked, too-active kids. (ages 13-17)

Preventing Teen Drug Abuse
Take time to learn the steps to drug abuse prevention in your home. (ages 12-17)

Understanding the Drugs Teens Use
Don't stick your head in the sand. Learn about the drugs that are available on the streets. (ages 12-17)

Teens and Drug Use
Teens get involved with drugs for a variety of reasons, and parents play a key role in prevention. (ages 12-17)

Teens and Eating Disorders
Are your kids "immune" to developing an eating disorder? Don’t be so sure. (ages 12-17)

How Juvenile Violence Begins
Why do some adolescents lash out in violence? The obvious answer may not be the right one. (ages 12-17)

Talking About Sex and Sexuality to Your Adolescent
Puberty can be an exciting and scary time for parents and teens alike. What should parents communicate during this time? (ages 10-14)

Preparing for Adolescence
Invest time in the months before puberty to prepare your children for the emotional and physical stresses ahead. (ages 10-13)

Challenges in the Teen Years
Adolescent challenges are often driven by powerful hormonal forces that overtake and possess boys and girls in the early pubescent years. How do you work through these challenges as a parent of a teen? (ages 12-17)

You Can Survive the Stormy Teen Years
Adolescence is a fascinating and crazy time of life. It reminds Dr. James Dobson of the early space probes that blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (ages 12-17)

Dialogue — The Key to Family Harmony
Great parenting calls for a lot of talk between parents and kids. But day-to-day conversation can easily omit some of the most important areas of life. What’s needed is more dialogue. (ages 7-17)

Relating to Teens
Considering how the world has changed, it is doubly important to build relationships with our kids and work through conflicts. (ages 12-17)

Invade Your Teens’ World Without Invading Their Space
To affect the life of a modern teen, just step into his world, show you care and be a role model. (ages 12-17)

Understanding Your Teen and Letting Go
It’s impossible to comprehend a teenager’s mind without understanding the role of power in his school life and at home. (ages 12-17)

Relating to Your Middle-Schooler
How can you learn to enjoy (or at least understand) the unique senses of humor that middle-schoolers possess? (ages 11-14)

Raising Media-Wise Teenagers
Are you feeling in the dark about your teenager's entertainment choices? Your kids may need you to step into the light. (ages 12-17)

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