When looking back on your childhood, it’s probably easy to remember exactly who the bullies were at your school. Perhaps you were the target of their nasty comments, threats, or physical abuse.... Read more >>

Around the world, youth face violence daily: abuse at home or in school, peer pressure into acts of violence, neglect by parents, gangs, drugs, bad role models, killing, and terror. But Get the Point,... Read more >>

Common Sense Note: Parents need to know that this movie derives from a popular line of dolls on the market with an outrageous arsenal of fashion accessories. A pro-shopping, pro-consumerism message... Read more >>

Does your teen spend hours online and you have only a vague idea of what he may be doing or who he is conversing with? Perhaps you’re the parent of a tween and fear the day when she will be... Read more >>

Teens drink. Just think about your own high school years. So, as a parent, how best should we deal with it? I read in a recent Newsweek article that some parents allow teens to drink at home—so... Join this chit chat >>

A few years ago, while coaching high school basketball, I noticed something odd about our best player, a six-foot sophomore guard named Michelle. She was agile and selfless, averaging six assists and... Read more >>

Before 9/11, fewer than four acts of torture showed up on prime-time television each year, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit, nonpartisan international human rights organization. But over... Read more >>

Kathy Nickerson, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in Newport Beach, California specializing teen issues. I recently asked her how parents can talk to teens about... Read more >>

My twenty-nine-year-old cousin was struck down by an SUV last summer as he crossed a street. The light had turned red a while ago and several people had already crossed the street. The... Read more >>

When I was younger I was a different person. Things that mattered to me were the clothes I wore and the friends I had. One day my dad told me when I get older I’d realize that my family was the... Read more >>