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Bystanders Can Stop Bullying

The American Academy of Pediatrics will soon announce its recommendations to stop the epidemic of bullying in American schools. Among their recommendations, encourage the millions who witness bullying to step up and say “that’s enough!”

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Media Literacy

The average American kid is in front of a screen for six hours a day…and, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, all that time in front of video games, computers, television screens can increase their chances of being violent, having sex, doing drugs, and having an eating disorder. How can parents counteract all these messages?

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Addiction and Girls

The latest numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics aren’t encouraging if you have daughters. It used to be that the most likely users of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco were boys…but not anymore. In fact, today, in some categories…there are more drug-using girls than boys.

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Teaching Children Financial Responsibility

Despite the recession, kids have become a powerful force in the American economy spending close to 180-billion dollars a year. Young people may know how to spend, but do they know how to save? And what can parent do to teach financial responsibility?

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Moving Stress

According to the CDC, one in seven high school students has “seriously” considered suicide; one in 14 actually tried. And new research from Denmark has found a remarkable correlation: the more often kids moved…the more likely they were to commit suicide. It seems moving from one neighborhood or city to another is more traumatic for kids than many realize.

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Wealthy But Unhappy

Is there such a thing as having too much money? According to new research from the University of Rochester, for children especially, the answer is yes.

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Impulsive Suicide Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

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Kidney Stones (ER) Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

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