Video games
Anderson CA, Funk JB and Griffiths MD. (eds). 'Video Games and Public Health'. Journal of Adolescence, February 2004; 27(1): 1-122. Brady S. and Matthews K. 'Effects of Media Violence on Health-Related Outcomes Among Young Men'. Archives of ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Asthma in adolescence
Asthma in adolescence is common: up to one in 7 adolescents have wheezing some of the time. Asthma may start during the teenage years, or it may continue from a younger age. Because the teenage years are times of great changes for young people, ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Adolescence âEUR" what is it?
Adolescence is the time when you begin changing from a kid to an adult. This doesn't happen overnight âEUR" in fact it happens over several years. It starts with puberty when hormone levels rise and start the body changes needed to turn you [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Growing pains
Up to one in three children have pain in the limbs, usually the legs, which does not seem to have any physical cause. Usually this pain comes and goes for a few years and then disappears by about mid adolescence. The pain can be quite mild or bad ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Patricia Hersch
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight ... [... more]
Random House |
When teens have a chronic health problem
Adolescence can be a challenging time for young people and their families. Your teenager is going through rapid physical and emotional changes and parents and teenagers must both make changes in their relationships to adjust to this new ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Living online
Anderson CA, Funk JB, and Griffiths MD. (eds). 'Video Games and Public Health'. Journal of Adolescence, February 2004; 27(1): 1-122. Brady S. and Matthews K. 'Effects of Media Violence on Health-Related Outcomes Among Young Men'. Archives of ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Growing pains
Growing pains are real and can affect children when they are three to five years old. They may continue to affect them into early adolescence or teenage years. Pains may be muscular pains in the legs, often the calf, and often is worse in the ... [... more]
Better Health |
Food and your life stages
Nutritional requirements change as we move through different life stages. Adolescence, pregnancy, lactation, menopause and ageing all place extra demands on the body. Babies, adults, pregnant and nursing (breastfeeding) women and older people all ... [... more]
Better Health |
Back pain - children
Back pain is common in children, particularly during adolescence. Poor posture, inappropriate forms of exercise and carrying heavy schoolbags can cause back pain. If pain is persistent, and felt in the same place, it should be investigated by ... [... more]
Better Health |
Doreen Baingana
In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for ... [... more]
Random House |
What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. In this extraordinary collection of stories, Avi, one of the most innovative authors writing... What Do ... [... more]
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