Eavesdrop on a teenager's conversation and you might feel like you're listening to a foreign language.

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My daughter is sick... again! Hello, hand, foot and mouth disease... again! The fact that I can spell "Herpangina" correctly without having to reference a medical resource book or Google is nothing to brag about. Clearly, there is a pattern to this madness.

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“Abusive behavior with potentially serious social and mental health consequences for children and adolescents” is the definition given the word bully by the American Medical Association. Bullying affects the entire school system – not only the bully and the person being bullied, but the entire student body. The Michael Tiger Human Rights Center reports that 40% of Texas students reported being verbally bullied last year. This does not include other forms of bullying such as striking another student or cyber bullying. Implications of bullying include depression, thoughts of suicide, loss of self-esteem, anxiety, body aches, insomnia, and violent behavior which may include carrying weapons to school. Listed below are the top (ten) 10 reasons children are bullied: o Being fat or thin o Being tall or short o Being quiet or creative o Having big ears or small ears o Being from a different culture or having a different religion or ethnicity o Having different tastes or likes o Having the "wrong" clothes (wearing clothes that are not "cool" at the time) o Wearing glasses or braces o Being homosexual or believed to be gay or lesbian o Being unwilling to use strength to defend him or herself In other words, any imaginative "excuse" will do.Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.

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How many times have you heard or uttered the phrase “Grow up?” I suppose that you can not count. This phrase is often used in a wide variety of contexts. Yet what does grow up really mean? What does it mean to be grown up? If you are of legal age and you have children, [...]

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And I thought kids were the ones with big mouths. Lord knows my six-year-old daughter constantly tells strangers tidbits like my weight and age. But when it comes to spilling the beans on important intel, it looks like Grandpa’s the one to watch out for.

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If a parent is philosophically opposed these groups because they subdivide a campus and codify the rights of 20-somethings to pass judgment on each other, should that parent forbid a child to join?

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TODAY's segment on must-have baby products contained an interesting little factoid: More babies are born in August than in any other month.

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Just this past May, in the weeks before my daughter was to graduate from 5th grade, I was at my children’s school and I ran into their Art teacher. She was one of the teachers who participated in filling out the ADHD testing forms back in 1st grade when the doctor suspected my daughter had [...]

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By now you've probably heard the big celeb baby news over the weekend: Beyonce and Jay-Z are preggers and she announced it on the MTV VMA show! Everyone's a buzz at how Queen B let the world know: After performing her song "Love on Top," she unbuttoned her pu …

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As with almost anything in life, social networking can have its good sides but it can also have its bad sides. Sometimes the decision to allow your teen to engage in social networking will depend on whether or not you think the bad outweighs the good or vice versa.

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