Kids' bedrooms are different now. Think "teen wing of the house" different, with videogame arcades, secret Harry Potter passageways, and DJ mixing stations, if you're lucky.
In response to the ongoing #FollowATeen movement, in which grownups examine the tweets of kids to discover how silly most of Twitter is, teens on the social platform are rising up and asking their brethren to #FollowAnAdult — because, as the team behind one prominent teems claims, adults are lame, too.
If there is one consistent adult behavior over the years, it's freaking out about what horrifying, disabling, possibly forever damaging things teens are doing now. Such is the case with the "new teen body obsession": thigh gap. And the reactions might be getting worse.
Hoping to capitalize on the frenzy over Y.A. book sensations like The Hunger Games and Twilight, publishers are returning to their design departments and asking for new teen-friendly looks for the classics.
Discovered: Teen driving laws work, a delicious way to lose weight, cheap drugs aren't always the best kind of drugs, and our oceans can't hold all of our carbon dioxide anymore.
There's a depressing new report making the rounds today which says that almost half of American teenagers looking for work this summer will either not get enough hours or won't get a job at all. But in the spirit of optimism, let's turn lemons into lemonade stands: If no one will give teenagers jobs, they can make jobs for themselves. Here are some suggestions.
Discovered: Some brains are wired to want drugs, there's no such thing as safe texting while driving, TV makes drinking look fun to kids and rats chew better than other rodents.
According to a new study in Pediatrics, somewhere between 30.2 and 41.4 percent of 8- to 23-year-olds in the U.S. will be arrested before their 23rd birthdays.
A new survey of teenage drug use finds that their consumption of cigarettes and alcohol is the lowest it has been in 30 years, but that regular use of marijuana continues its sharp rise.
According to a new study, hype surrounding the trend of teenagers sending sexually explicit pictures to one another may only be just that -- hype.
While conservative columnist David Frum is trying to convince his friends he's not crazy just because he's not that into the Tea Party, his wife, Danielle Crittenden, managing editor of blogs for Huffington Post Canada, was experimenting in the bathroom with a vodka-soaked tampon.
Fewer kids today are losing their virginity during their teenage years than they were just a decade ago, according to the latest report on teenagers' sexual activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last night saw the unveiling of a "controversial," sex-filled episode of Glee that wound up being pretty darn good.
In the most recent trumped up scary trend, teens apparently soak gummy bears in alcohol.
Plus: The Washington Post is unafraid of serious teen issues
Everything's okay because the boy learned some valuable science lessons
The latest of many explanations is that teens do drugs because of Facebook
Aidan Dwyer did a much better job on his 7th grade science project than any of us
A new study links eating carbs with a pimply complexion
The media offers some advice on how to handle being dumped in the digital age
A review of recent studies, as well as an article pushing back
Plus: why don't you kids go get a job?
On violent video games, the TSA's machine-like training, and wacky teen lit
Obliviousness seems a fitting tribute to a mass murderer
A quarter of U.S. kids have had a drink by age 12, over half by 15
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