Tag Archives: Teens

• News

  Students organize first suicide prevention walk

  A group of students from the John G. School at the Virginia Home for Boys and Girls is organizing the school’s first suicide prevention walk.
• News

  Why teens may be behind on vaccinations

  A new survey finds even though vaccines for certain teenage illnesses are available and are found to be safe, many parents aren’t having their teens inoculated.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  Frigid Monday morning in Virginia

  Monday was one of our coldest mornings so far this Winter.
• News / Weather / Weather Blog

  Wednesday is our coldest morning in two years

  Morning lows fell into the single digits and teens in central Virginia.
• Health / News

  Marijuana use holds steady among U.S. teens

  Those are some of the results published in the annual Monitoring the Future study, a survey of more than 45,000 8th, 10th, and 12th graders from 395 public and private schools.
• News

  Study: Movies with smoking should earn ‘R’ rating

  A new study finds that automatically rating movies with smoking as “R” would greatly reduce the number of teens that try smoking.
• News

  Sexting on the rise among teens, study says

  Nearly 30 percent of U.S. teenagers are sexting, sending nude photos via email or text, according to a new study.
• Health

  Survey highlights Va. teens’ risky behaviors

  The Virginia Department of Health wants to know what it’s like to be a modern teen.
• News

  Parents can control cell phone use while teens drive

  About half of all teenagers admit to texting while driving, even though most of them know the statistics.
• Health / News

  Study: Most teens get alcohol from parents

  Mothers Against Drinking and Driving release new statistics on where teens get their alcohol