How do you prevent your kids from doing drugs, smoking, or drinking? Deepak Chopra provides methods for counteracting bad influences on your children. He suggests being a good example, providing a safe haven, and encouraging exhilaration for them.

Most teens don't have the right to vote, but they've caught on to the power of the pocketbook. Kids are choosing sweatshop free clothes and fair trade chocolates as a way to advertise their activism. Evidently, it's become cool to care about the conditions facing farmers and factory workers.

"Paying farmers well is really important," eighth grader Emma Lewis told Christian Science Monitor reporter G. Jeffrey MacDonald, "because if we didn't have any unprocessed food, we'd all be living on Twinkies."

A new study shows that at the very age when girls should be upping their calcium intake to accumulate peak bone mass, they start to develop a preference for soda over milk and