Internet Video Bullying

Here's a recipe for trouble: start with a teenager's impulsive brain, add in a little peer pressure, a video camera and the Internet, and the results are violent assaults, dangerous crashes, and outrageous stunts - all captured on video and posted online.

Junk Food Commercials

The number of overweight kids in the U.S. has doubled since 1980, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Some blame the long, inactive hours that children spend watching TV, but new research suggests the reason may be less about how much television children are watching and more about what they're watching.

Why Kids Lie

A survey by Penn State finds that 98 percent of teens say that lying is morally wrong. But in the very same survey, 98 percent say they've lied to their parents. Why do the same kids, who know lying is wrong, do it anyway?

Warning: Smoking Harms Your Brain

Some teenagers think the only danger in smoking cigarettes is lung cancer. But new research shows that smoking may cause irreversible damage to the brain.

Lawnmower Injury (ER)

It seems pretty harmless to crank up the lawnmower and cut the grass, but each year nearly 80,000 people end up in the emergency room because of mowing accidents, and 10,000 of them are children.

Acting White

For many American teenagers, one of the ways to be unpopular in high school is to be an "A" student. In fact, in some schools, doing your homework every day, studying hard and getting good grades has a controversial label. Some call it, "acting white."

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