Ahhh, the teen-age years: the first kiss, the freedom of a driver’s license, the glory of staying up all night.
It’s the agony and ecstasy of being young and innocent; a time of highs and lows, when the stresses of life seem particularly edgy. “I’ll just die if he breaks up with me.” “My SAT score [...]

As parents, we spend a lot of time worrying about our young teens’ seemingly reckless behavior. Parents like myself are all too often mystified as to why our teens would choose to, say, take drugs, have sex, or drive drunk — when we can see so clearly that these are bad ideas.

According to a new [...]