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some tips for teens on peers to avoid: http://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20120824/NEWS0107/208240346/

According to new research, teens who were overweight were twice as likely to have gallstones compared to those with healthy weight, and the risk is four times higher in moderately obese teenagers: http://hometestingblog.testcountry.com/?p=22039 Obesity or overweight lowers school grades in teenagers suffering from metabolic syndrome, even when they do not have a serious health complication. […]

Some tips to ease the transition: http://www.telegram.com/article/20120826/NEWS/108269952/1312 And a new app called csMentor– the “cs” stands for “college survival and success” – is a web-based program that combines video mentoring with regular check-ins to promote better communication between students and parents.  http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/29/new-app-updates-parents-their-students-progress#ixzz252ucyF8d And tips on how to stay in communication once they go to college: […]

In a new survey, 54 percent of students at private high schools said that drugs were available as compared to 24 percent of high school students in 2002,; 61 percent of public school students said that they noticed drugs on campus,  as compared to  45% saying their school was “drug infected” in 2002. http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112680588/teenage-drug-use-school-082312/

Data suggest that familial economic conditions contextualize the relative roles of parenting, sibling, and peer processes in the transmission of risk to adolescent delinquency http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fam/26/4/576/