Senior projects challenge student to learn new skills, engage their community, and/or contribute globally on a topic of their choosing. According to research, self-awareness is the number one capability for leaders to develop. (Harvard Business Review, 2007).

Self-awareness leads to questions about the future and what it will take to get there.

There are several ways to look at the question of whether teens should have jobs. Of course, in some family situations, having your teen work might not be much of an option. The economy is in trouble and along with it are many families. If these families have teens that can work, the teens just might have no choice. If they want any spending money at all, they will probably have to work for it.

Many people are not aware that many big name brands of cosmetics contain ingredients that are extremely suspect. Now a new study has warned about dangerous cosmetics and the effects that these products can have on teenage girls.

Unfortunately the cosmetics that so many of us use are loaded with ingredients that we really ought not be putting on our faces.

Young people seem to be in their own world full of activities and friends. Consequently, there is often little room to listen to parental advice. However, there are things you can do to help your adolescent child make the right choices.

Teenagers are beginning to develop their personal identity; their points of interest are changing. Their fashion sense is improving, and they begin to experiment with many new things to satisfy their curiosity.

Teen girls still love getting stuffed animals for Christmas. However, they aren't interested in something too babyish. Girls between the ages of 8 and 12 like stuffed animals that are a little more high tech and sophisticated. The following suggestions can help you navigate the tricky terrain of buying stuffed toys for young ladies in the teen age group.

If you have spent any time on the Internet and have visited social media sites, then you know that there are a lot of things that as a parent you might not want your children to be exposed to. Online predators and racy banner ads are just a couple of the things that we as parents have to worry about every time our children get on the Internet. Many of the ads that are promoted on My space are sexually illicit and are not appropriate for children of any age.

What we understand from our personal experience coping with a child suffering from anorexia is that there isn't one single definitive guide or course of action for you and your child to follow that will guarantee a solution to their eating problems.

Your attitude and beliefs about children and teenagers and the interaction of the parents affect the way you respond to your child.

Are the parent of a teenager? If you are, have you ever been asked by your teen to be a fashion model? While a large number of teens who want to be fashion models are girls, there are some boys who also wish to do so. Although your teen may wish to become a teen fashion model, the question is should you let them?

When it comes to determining whether or not you should let your teen be a teen fashion model, there are a number of important factors that you may want to take into consideration.

Admission to top colleges and universities has never been more difficult.

Harvard broke all records this year, accepting just 7.1 percent of applicants, while Yale accepted 8.3 percent, Columbia 10 percent, and Princeton 9.3 percent. Brown and Dartmouth accepted 13 percent and 13.2 percent, respectively. Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Amherst Colleges accepted 16.

An evil is stalking the world now that wasn't here when I was a kid. Maybe it's been here all along but as a kid I never saw it lurking near the cotton fields of north Alabama. We knew what the devil was of course, from going to the West Huntsville Baptist Church every Sunday morning and evening, but I don't think it entered our minds to think he was walking down the same road as us.