5 tips for talking with teenagers about money

Parents can help teens learn about handling money by going over some simple ideas. These five tips come from the National Endowment for Financial Education, an Englewood, Colo.-based group with a program geared toward teenagers.

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Your teen's first recession: Learning to cut back

Teenagers have never been known for their restraint, but perhaps these times are different. Tuned in to worries of a deepening recession, many teens say that they've been smart shoppers and have lowered their expectations for receiving gifts this holiday season.

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Your brooding teen: Just moody or mentally ill?

John Hill was a typical teenager in many ways: He started smoking when he was in high school, which upset his mother, and he spent a lot of time in his room alone, staying up until 5 in the morning playing video games. He went to school but often signed himself out sick after a couple of hours, and his grades plummeted.

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Kids find paradise by the cell phone light?

Is anybody else creeped out by that AT&T GoPhone commercial starring chart-topping American rock singer Meat Loaf? You know, the one where he’s out working in the garage or something and actor Adam Cagley (in the role of Meat Loaf’s beefy teenage son) starts whining about wanting a GoPhone.

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Laws Target Teen Drivers' Cell Phone Use

Narin Leininger knows about the risks of talking on a cell phone or sending text messages while driving. The 16-year-old high school junior says he'd only use his phone behind the wheel in an emergency — a flat tire, traffic jam or crash.

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Puppy love makes teenagers lose the plot

Adolescents who claim they are "madly in love" might not be too far off the mark: a new study suggests that they show almost manic behaviours.

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Generation TEXT! (u wont brb if u r dead) w/poll

There are two signs that I'm officially old. The first is that I can peruse through the entire Billboard Top 100 and not recognize a single song – or artist for that matter.

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where is the love....? Do we blame education the parents lack of attention 2wards their children? Why I ask myself?? This world is turning in on it's self...

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DANVERS — It's no surprise that using bad language in school can get you into hot water. But "meep"? Danvers High parents recently got an automated call from the principal warning them that if students say or display the word "meep" at school, they could face suspension.

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WEST HARTFORD — - Despite the disturbing footage in the cellphone video, the four boys didn't think it warranted much worry, said Tom Moore, Conard High School's principal.

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Rats develop memory loss in adulthood after receiving high doses of amphetamines during their "teen" years, new research shows.

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German teenagers create about 1,000 oversized, colorful dominos to rebuild the Berlin Wall - before they're toppled, 20 years after the original fell.

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Like never before, teen lit is alive with plus-size characters who take on their school tormenters and get the guy, soaking up self-esteem as football heroes and big-girl models.

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HAMILTON, Ohio - A pediatrician performed sex acts on three teenage patients during office visits, slipping them cash payments of about $200 as they left, a prosecutor told jurors yesterday.

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Four teenagers — one armed with a machete and another with a knife — picked an isolated home at random and entered it intending to kill in a middle-of-the-night attack that left a woman dead and her daughter seriously injured, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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Three teenagers were seriously injured as they attempted to make a home made bomb using fireworks and a plastic bag.

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Story in NY Times about 10 to 15 year old kids who have come out to parents and/or friends and/or classmates about being GLBTTIQQ2S. Very interesting, and hopeful.

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In a wise and compassionate move, a Michigan judge will allow a pregnant teenager to give birth to her baby before she must turn herself in and begin a jail sentence.

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THE BBC caused outrage last night after it allowed a leading academic to demand the age of consent be lowered to 13. Professor John Spencer, appearing on a BBC Radio Four programme to be broadcast tomorrow night, says ALL teenagers should be free to have sex.

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Umm...so if some nerd we're to break a bracelet off of some girl, she would have to perform some sex act on him? WTF!!!

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How to tell in 15 minutes whether someone likes you

Fifteen minutes is not a long time to assess whether someone likes you or not, but if you are instinctive like me, you can sense almost within the first five minutes how that date is going to turn out, or whether you wish for a second meeting.

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Lighter Fluid Steaks and Rubber Jello

There comes a time in every parents life when they assess the capability of their children to handle staying home alone, while the parents work. They sit down and evaluate the possibility of an emergency and whether or not their children can react quickly enough in their absence.

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An advocacy group said today that a 16-year-old Muslim girl of Iraqi descent was attacked Tuesday afternoon by a group of teenage students on a school bus.

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**Satire Warning** Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids. ** This is comedy video, the Onion is not a "real" news network, although a few news agencies lately thought it was. lol **

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Article about, with links to, the UNESCO International Guidelines on Sexuality Education "an evidence informed and rights based framework to give children and young people access to the knowledge and skills they need in their personal, social and sexual lives." The final version …

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A WESH 2 News crew came under attack on Monday while investigating a story about two teenagers who were reportedly working at a strip club in Brevard County.

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Andrea has autism, and socializing doesn't come naturally. For the past several weeks, she's gone to classes that teach the delicate ins and outs of making friends — an Emily Post rules of etiquette for autistic teens.

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How in god's name could anyone trot out a laundry list like that of porn's social effects and come to the conclusion that things have changed for the better with the growth of the internet porn industry? I think I might know the answer to that.

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We belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation

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How do I deal with unwanted attention?

Q. This boy at school seriously has a huge crush on me. He catches up to me in the hallways and keeps talking to me. He also pretends he needs the homework so he could find an excuse to sit near me at lunch.

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The amazing thing about the debate over the need for laws to ban texting while driving is that there is a debate over the need for laws to ban texting while driving.

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