If you've ever been walking down a city street and hit by a kid on roller skates or on a scooter or even on a bike, then you know parents aren't watching their kids on riding toys. As a mom of two kids who often use riding toys AND sidewalks, I get how hard it can be, but I also don't think it's good for anyone when parents allow their kids to ride like crazy people. That is why I support the idea of ticketing kids (and parents) who use riding toys recklessly.

A 6-year-old boy who crashed his toy motorcycle into an SUV in Mexico was ticketed, hit with a $183 fine, and had his motorized toy confiscated. His mother is furious, but I think the police handled it well. What was a 6-year-old doing in the street driving a toy motorcycle?

Kids are seriously dangerous on riding toys. My 3-year-old son rides over my foot at least four times a day on his toy ATV and that is just in our tiny house. Outside, he would be a menace.

It's one of the great ironies of raising kids. When they're small, you can't wait until they're old enough to play games with you, and then with other kids. When they're teenagers, you live in constant fear that they're engaging in one of the hot "games" of the moment.

You want to say your daughter won't be the next Jasmine Crawley, the 13-year-old kid beaten senseless in a school bathroom because she and her girlfriends were playing the 30-second game. But you can't, can you? Because you remember some of the lame-brained things you did with your friends, and you live in constant fear that your kid is next. But if you're depending on your memory of those idiot schemes to keep your kid safe, you're out of luck.

It's not often that I can feel out and out sympathy for a member of the Kardashian klan. But I tend to make an exception for Kim & Ko's little sisters. Kendall Jenner is a teenager growing up in the spotlight, and every single thing her parents do for her is treated to intense speculation. But it turns out Kendall is spending a lot of time being a pretty normal teen.

Take Kendall's new car -- a gift for her 16th birthday. While the world is busy snarking on Kris and Bruce for going overboard for the sweet 16, let's get real. Sixteen-year-olds across this country get wheels for their birthday, and nobody blinks an eye. I say good for the Jenners.

I've sort of been expecting someone to blame schools for introducing teenagers to the dangerous world of eating disorders. After all, parents are more than willing to blame MTV for teen pregnancy and Facebook for "letting" their kids cyberbully. But the XO Jane article titled "Health Class Taught Me How to Have an Eating Disorder" was still a tough read.

I once was that teenage girl sitting in a classroom learning that some girls lose weight by throwing up everything they eat. And yes, I would go on to battle bulimia for many years, despite the warnings that it was one of the absolute worst ways to attack the battle of the bulge. But I'm still not buying the argument that talking to our kids about tough topics is the wrong way to go. It sounds like a cop-out.

Forget vampires, werewolves, Jason, and Freddy Krueger. There isn't much scarier to a parent than the idea that their kid will one day be a teen driver. And because parenting a teen pretty much means coming to realize that EVERYTHING that goes wrong is your fault, it's time you realize that you play a big-time role in making the roadways a terrifying place to be.

Basically, today's parents suck at teaching their kids to drive. Notice that emphasis on "today's." Our generation, a new study claims, is actually WORSE than our parents were at the whole teen driver thing.

I love stories about especially meaningful first experiences: A baby's first laugh, a kid's first bike ride, the first time camping or on an airplane or eating jalapeno peppers. It's all stuff you want to remember as a parent (but sometimes don't); times you definitely wish you had a camera ready (but almost never do).

So I really dig this story, because it combines the most TADA! first of all, childbirth (first day of life!), with another fairly big deal first, a teen's first car. (Which she might argue is more important than her birth, and you know what? Don't even bother trying to reason with her.)

I don't know about you, but I probably would've cared a lot more about my grades in high school if I knew every "A" brought me one step closer to a brand new car. Hey, it worked for the Las Vegas teen Kenneth Gonzalez, who was just awarded a Honda Fit by his high school for maintaining a GPA above 3.7 and keeping his attendance record spotless (no unexcused absences). Sweet!

When a high school golf coach has a blood alcohol level two and a half times the legal limit and a van full of kids who she was driving around, you know heads are going to roll. Reading the kids' terrified text messages to their parents alone is terrifying. But why isn't the happy ending -- Susie Lynn Steinbeck was arrested on drunk driving charges, and the girls from the Fairfield High School girls’ golf team are all fine -- making me feeling any better?

These girls were all teenagers, and they climbed, seemingly willingly, into a van with an extremely inebriated driver behind the wheel. You'd expect that from a 5-year-old who doesn't know any better. But from teenagers who have been getting the "don't drink and drive" talk since elementary school?