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News and information concerning tween nutrition, tween exercise, healthy recipes, and hygiene.

Healthy Breakfast - Share Your Healthy Breakfast Ideas Here

What do you serve your tween for breakfast? How do you get your preteen energized for a busy day? Share your healthy breakfast ideas here.

Should Tween Girls Use Tampons?

Tween girls may have questions about tampons and menstruation, but should preteens use tampons?

What Girls Need to Know About Menstrual Pads

Before a girl begins her period she needs to know about menstrual pads and how to use them.

Healthy Snacks for Kids - What Are Your Favorite Healthy Snac…

Tweens are snackers, but they don't have to reach for the bag of chips every time. Read what healthy snacks other parents can get their kids to eat, and tell us your favorite healthy snacks for kids.

This Fruity Popsicle Recipe is Tasty and Fun to Make

A fruity popsicle recipe that tweens can make and enjoy on their own.

A Trail Mix Recipe That's Easy to Make

This trail mix recipe is easy to assemble and yummy to eat.

Banana Fruit Smoothie is a Healthy Snack for Kids

This banana fruit smoothie is a healthy snack for kids and fun to make.

Healthy Snacks for Kids - Ideas for Healthy Snacks for Kids (Tweens, too!)

Tweens are mega snackers, but they don't always choose healthy snacks. These healthy snacks for kids are yummy enough to please even picky tween eaters.

What is the Choking Game?

The choking game is a danger to tweens and teens. Here's what you need to know about this dangerous behavior.

Help Your Tween Cope with Stress

Tweens can get stressed out, just like adults do. Here's how to help your tweenager learn to relax.

Encouraging Healthy Hygiene in Tweens

They're changing and growing, it's time for tweens to concentrate on healthy hygiene.

First-Aid Every Tween Should Know

Tween should have a basic understanding of first-aid, and know how to deal with everyday bumps and bruises. Since it's during the tween years when many children are left home alone, or in charge of younger siblings, it's also important that they know how to handle some of the more common situat…

Tweens and Eating Disorders

Tweens are not immune to eating disorders. Here's what parents should know.

Keeping Your Tween Smoke Free

Simple strategies to keep your tween from lighting up.

What should I know about tweens and inhalants?

What parents should know about tweens and inhalants.

Does my 10-year-old daughter have to receive the HPV vaccine?

Some parents think the HPV vaccine is too new and worry about its safety. Others find the vaccine too expensive to afford.

Is Your Tween Depressed?

How to tell if your tween is suffering from depression, and what you can do to help your child.

The 5 Nutrition Mistakes Tweens Make

Tween bodies grow at lightning speed, and they require certain nutrients to aid that development. Unfortunately, many tweens aren't getting enough of certain vitamins and minerals, or they're getting too much of a bad thing.

Healthy Snacks for Tweens

These healthy smoothie recipes will satisfy even the pickiest of tweens.

Tween Hygiene Help

Keep track of your tween's hygiene habits with this easy to use chart.

Tweens and Alcohol

Questions to ask yourself and your tween about underage drinking.
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