Ridiculous! That's what I thought when I heard that a school won't allow a teen's senior photo to be included in the yearbook because she took it with her newborn baby. Stephanie Myer, a teen mom who had her baby girl in the middle of the school year, has worked as hard as possible to make sure this doesn't deter her from graduating with the rest of her classmates come next year. She's proud of her accomplishments, as she should be, and wanted her yearbook picture to represent who she is. That involves being a teen mom to her newborn baby, she says.

But her school in Minnesota doesn't agree and so her senior photo won't be included in the yearbook.

Looks like all is not right in Madonna's material world! Rumor has it that her daughter, Lourdes Leon, is completely fed up with her super strict mother's ways and allegedly wants to leave home…even though she's just 16 years old!

Did you know teens need a bit over nine hours of sleep every night, but the majority of them are not getting even close to that on school nights? It turns out that this is way worse for their health than we thought. A new study published in the journal SLEEP has found that teens who don't get enough shut-eye are at a higher risk of developing diabetes since inadequate sleep effects a teen's insulin resistance. 

But how do you get your teen get more sleep when they have to be up and ready to go to school before the sun is up? I know that's an exaggeration, but it certainly felt like that for me growing up. 

A national survey showed that 50 percent of parents are still uneasy speaking to their teen about sex, compared to 82 percent of teens not willing to talk to their parents about the topic. Everyone knows that the sex talk is…well, rather uncomfortable. So I wasn't surprised to hear about this new survey showing that teens still aren't talking to their parents about sex--even though parents are more willing to do so. 

At least 1 in 6 teens have never spoken to their parents about sex, but even if they are comfortable talking about it, addressing sex still brings parents anxiety and their good intentions go unnoticed by their teens. So how can we fix that?

Lately, I've had a lot of problems with some of the so-called rules that schools are enforcing. With students these days getting in trouble just for wearing a certain kind of tights, it seemed to me as if teachers and administrators have started going too far with their policies…that is, until I heard about the case of Brianna Demato. Demato, a 15-year-old bisexual student at a Queens, New York high school, was sent home on Tuesday for wearing a T-shirt that read "I enjoy vagina"--and now her and her mom are saying that the school is infringing on her rights!

Okay, I'm all for free speech but--I can't believe I'm about to say this--I have to side with the school on this one.