Teenagers

You can help kids in need have a Merry Christmas for 2023.

Teenagers seem to get lost in the shuffle when it comes to back-to-school backpack drives. One Billings woman is trying to change that. If you'd like to contribute, here are the details.

We're barely a month into 2023 and the Montana Missing Persons database has 20 more names in it - many of them are teenage girls. Only two of the recently reported missing are over the age of 21.

Teens will be facing adulthood and the myriad of challenges that come with it soon enough. Let them trick or treat.

One of my longest-running jobs in high school was at Wendy's, and I really hated work. Now that I'm older, I found out that I didn't have to be trapped behind the window register at Wendy's and I could have done any of these instead.

Payback is coming in about 20 years, when I'll be so old, I too, will be napping all day.

First I'd like to tip my hat to the parents whose kids get good grades because they study hard and who do their chores when asked. Unfortunately not all kids are that well behaved. Some pay their parents lip service to doing homework, cleaning their rooms etc. then logon to YouTube or text with their friends. Meanwhile others are openly defiant.

In a new study published Thursday, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Dartmouth University found that American teens who listen to music hear about 34 name-brand references to alcohol every day — something that could contribute to teen substance abuse.