Lions and Tigers and Teens: Depending on a family’s finances or parents’ schedules, some teens may end up taking care of younger siblings. Comment.

Lions and Tigers and Teens: How to encourage your teen to be independent and empowered, and you will pave a smooth transition to school away from home. Comment.

Lions and Tigers and Teens: Most can agree that we all possess both masculine and feminine characteristics. However, if there are distinct social or behavioral differences, should parents then raise the genders differently? Comment.

Lions and Tigers and Teens: Braces weren’t “in” back in the day. The dreadful nickname “metal mouth” was often used to tease those who had to don hideously thick, metal wires and brackets across their teeth. If you wore them, you didn’t smile for your school pictures. Then, there was the thought — or nightmare — of experiencing your first kiss with a mouth full of metal. Most teens preferred going “au naturel,” electing to live with a slightly crooked smile over a silver one. Comment.