My husband teaches Jr. and Sr. High School and sees teenage and even preteen girls, dressed like street walkers and MTV dancers. This in and of itself shows a lack of parental involvement at home, but it gets worse from there. More >>

I used to pick my son up from middle school and see a few girls wearing very short shorts and revealing tops and I just assumed both their parents worked and didn't see them when these girls got dressed for school. More >>

I think my most heart-wrenching breakup happened in early high school. The irony is that I have no memory of the guy's name but, nonetheless, he was my boyfriend. More >>

My son's friends called him over to spend the night as they had new video games. When he got there, no one was playing video games... When he came home gray-colored that night, I asked him why he hadn't stayed over. He explained he didn't want to and went to bed. More >>

I teach high school in California, and my wife and I have two daughters. Fifteen years ago when our daughters were in high school and over 16 (we didn't allow them to date until they were 16), my younger daughter had been dating a young man for a few months.... More >>

Both opening this past weekend, 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green' and 'Sparkle' take two very different looks into the lives of young people... More >>

...[T]he following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth: Always we hear the cry from teenagers 'What can we do, where can we go?' More >>

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days' isn't Academy Award caliber, but the PG-rated film is recommended for any readers of the series and their younger siblings too... More >>

We bought our daughter a cell phone for her 13th birthday. Thirteen seemed like the right age; she's mature, responsible and desires more of a social life. We established rules... More >>

Just when you think you've seen it all, your kid goes and screws up in a way you never even imagined possible. Even though you expected the teenage years to be difficult, you just never imagined this... More >>