School: The No-God Zone?

Fifteen-year-old Gilberto Dixon, a 10th grader at Beach Channel High School in Queens, New York, commenting on a city school board decision to forbid ...

Teen Saves Grandfather from Fiery Death

Valerie O'Connor, a high school student in Britton, Michigan, isn't in the habit of shoving her 63-year-old grandfather out the door into the ...

Movies Influence Behavior

According to a study published in Effective Clinical Practice, teens whose parents restrict them from watching R-rated movies are one-third as likely ...

Time with Dad Worth More Than Money

A number of years ago, Dr. Robert Schuller was on a whirlwind book promotion tour, visiting eight cities in four days. It was an exhausting schedule in ...

Commitment Means Work

Though skeptical of his teenage son's newfound determination to build bulging muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store's weight-lifting ...

Marilyn Manson on Teenage Rebellion

Rock musician Marilyn Manson says:

Resistance always will be the first thing to fuel the fire when you're young. That's how I learned about heavy ...

Rules in the Home Help Teens

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse has released an extensive study on teens and substance abuse. Their main finding was that "teens ...

Teen's Sacrifice Saves Baby

Jeff Leeland had just accepted a teaching position at Kamiakin Junior High in Seattle, Washington. The family had endured months of Dad's driving ...

"Mr. Holland's Opus": Leaving a Legacy

Mr. Holland's Opus is a movie about a frustrated composer in Portland, Oregon, who takes a job as a high school band teacher in the 1960s. Although ...

Parental Involvement Deters Drug Use

According to a survey conducted by Columbia University's Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), "Almost one in five American teens say ...