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The teen years are a time of changing relationships. One important relationship that changes is between the teenager and his or her doctor.
The focus switches from making sure the children are up to date with their immunizations and hitting all the development milestones to making sure the teenagers are safe and educated.
“During the teen years, [...]

“Kung Fu Panda” is an animated film the whole family can enjoy. It may not be as clever as the original “Shrek” or as technologically ground breaking as “Toy Story,” but it’s a funny and sweet – without being sappy – movie that won’t totally bore adults and will have kids howling with laughter.
This adult [...]

When I sign my name on something, it is usually for my own advancement or advantage. To place ownership on an article, to label my water bottle, or to fill an application is the purpose my printed name seems to serve.
So last year, when I scribbled my name on the sign-up sheet at Nicholson Catholic [...]

The same cheerful restlessness seems to pervade all areas of his life. In the last six years, since becoming quadriplegic, he has started a skin care line, Clark%26#8217;s Botanicals; written a memoir (%26#8220;it%26#8217;s 95 percent finished,%26#8221; he said); learned Spanish, to communicate better with some of his caretakers; and researched and managed his recovery. [...]

Those Europeans. They’re so sophisticated. Even their family and children’s films show more worldliness, artfulness and greater appeal for young audiences than most of what’s made this side of the pond. There are aspects of some of the movies screening tomorrow through April 18 at Sprockets, the Toronto International Film Festival for Children, that [...]

Her label, Spanx, is one of those brand names that seems to have incrementally seeped into the English language, aided partly by some impressive endorsements. Quite a number of Hollywood bums, and post-baby tummies, and cellulite thighs, have been Spanxed. The weird thing is that the celebrities don’t appear to mind talking about these control-top [...]

As a war veteran, it’s hard for me not to notice the United States has lost 4,000 young soldiers, and not say a word about it. Canada’s mortality rate in the same war on terror is rising as well.
Whether it’s a teenager just out of high school or a seasoned staff
sergeant or officer, one [...]

Ben Weese stepped out of his limo and into the limelight Monday night, but not in Hollywood.
The Brighton resident, who turns 15 today, got the star treatment Tuesday as the Make-A-Wish Foundation staged a premiere to his own film, Quarter to Midnight, at the Empire Theatre. Ben both wrote the story for and starred in [...]

Eight years ago, Letica Fox-Thomas was finishing up a childhood spent partly in the city%26#8217;s homeless shelters while cramming for her Regents exams. Five years ago, Mansour Ourasanah was a new teenage immigrant from Togo, where he had learned firsthand about poverty and physical abuse but not how to speak or read English.All three [...]

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His death was confirmed by a spokesman for the family, Bill Powers, who declined to discuss the cause. In August 2002, Mr. Heston announced that he had been diagnosed with neurological symptoms %26#8220;consistent with Alzheimer%26#8217;s disease.%26#8221; %26#8220;I%26#8217;m neither giving up nor giving in,%26#8221; he said. Every actor dreams of a breakthrough role, [...]