Parenting Teens

Written by Georgia Orcutt
ISBN: 1587612798
Publisher: Inner Traditions
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Review by Susy P. Goins

The title says it all. Georgia Orcutt, author of several cookbooks, has lived the nightmare of raising two hungry teenaged boys. (more…)

By Carrie Lauth

Encouraging your preteen or tweenager to watch less TV? Try giving him this list of ideas to get him off the couch. Anytime you hear the “B” word (bored), remind him how fun life can be when you live it yourself instead of watching it on television. (more…)

By T. Bondavalli

Remember snuggling with your newborn baby while some cynic sneered, “Just wait until he’s old enough to get a driver’s license?” The teen years loom like a bad weather report, the unfair payoff for all your love and dedication. The job of protecting your child never seems more difficult. The scary yet exciting thing is that your child will start to spread his own wings and find his own way in the world. (more…)

By Natural Family Online

It’s true that one beauty product won’t cause cancer. But on average, teens and young women use between 10 and 25 personal care and cosmetic products per day. The sum total of chemicals on your body per day? Approximately 200.

What’s worse than using 200 chemicals directly on your body per day? The fact that significant levels of cancer causing agents are found in 1/3 of those products. No publicly accountable institution (like the FDA) has evaluated 89 percent of the 10,500 ingredients used in personal care products. (more…)

By Heleigh Bostwick

If you’re like most busy parents, you’ve probably used the television set as a babysitter—or a sanity-saver–and wondered whether your children were spending too many hours in front of the television set. You’re not alone. Children in the Unites States watch an average of four hours of television a day according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)–and that doesn’t include video games or DVDs. (more…)

By Natural Family Online

Wondering where to tune in for educational, worthwhile television programming for your kids of all ages? Check out Jan Zeiger’s Children’s TV site at Suite101.com for information on some of the latest shows for your kids. Jan says: (more…)

1 in 3 Parents Say the Way They Discipline Their Children Doesn’t Work

By Jennifer Warner, WebMD Medical News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD, Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Jan. 10, 2007 — Parents may be in need of a time-out — if not a do-over — when it comes to discipline.

A new survey shows more than a third of parents use the same discipline methods with their children their own parents used on them — despite the fact that nearly a third say their disciplining strategies aren’t working. (more…)