Plant Puberty

MAKING LEMONS and grapes plumper, persuading asparagus to send out more shoots, and waking up a wide variety of seeds from dormancy are all part of gibberellin's job description, but how this plant hormone gets ...

Dairy Decisions - Milk It

Buying a half gallon of milk seems uncomplicated at first - but look a little harder.

Puberty brings out the beast in movie teens

There comes a time in every kid's life when you notice some changes. Hair appears where there was none before.

Beginning Stages of Transition is Your Second Puberty

When we first learn that our brains are programmed differently than our bodies were formed and accept that we can integrate them, we are at the first stages of transition.

Answers to Teen Brain Quiz

False. From the standpoint of brain development, a "young adult" brain is that of at 25-year-old. Through the teenage years and into the early 20s, the brain is still getting organized.

Family Ties How to Keep Communication Open

Sometimes our teenagers get to feeling blue. Right out of nowhere they are hit with this feeling of sadness, anxiety, panic, and worries; our kids worry about every thing you can imagine and that is very ...

Cage fighting obsession reaches kids

CAGE-FIGHTING IS ALL THE RAGE---AND LIKE ANY POPULAR SPORT -- THERE ARE MILLIONS OF KIDS WHO WANT TO GROW UP TO BE LIKE THE STARS THEY IDOLIZE.

How Men and Women Look at Sex

Dr. Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University, is author of "Sex Education as Human Relations," "Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships," and many other writings.

Happy Brains

Magnetic brain stimulation improves dexterity. Rebecca Roache on why the cheating objection to smart drugs doesn't work.

Perils of puberty on the big screen

There comes a time in every kid's life when you notice some changes. Hair appears where there was none before.