At 7 and 5 years old, my sons are notoriously picky eaters. There are times when it seems like between the two of them, they basically live off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and bowls of Kraft macaroni and cheese. Their many food refusals can be a source of deep frustration for me (who the hell is afraid of trying an orange?), but now that I've read about this British teenager's addiction to packaged ramen noodles, I'm realizing that things in our household aren't quite so bad.

Georgi Readman is an 18-year-old girl from Shanklin, Isle of Wight, and she doesn't just prefer ramen noodles -- she eats them every single day. While it may sound like a funny quirk, her noodle obsession is actually caused by a serious condition called Selective Eating Disorder, and it's affecting her health in a number of drastic ways.

Did you know that if you were really worried about whether or not your teen might be on drugs, you can do more than threaten them and pray to God that they don’t overdose? Good news, right? Because in the past those were basically the only two options parents had.

But now, there is a service available for hire; a handler can now bring their drug-sniffing dog to your home and search for the scent of illegal drugs. Sound crazy? It's not. Parents are REALLY doing this.

Where is the justice for Felicia Garcia? The 15-year-old Staten Island girl was tormented and bullied to the point where she jumped in front of a commuter train, killing herself. She had reportedly been distraught after having group sex with some football players at her high school, and then found out it was videotaped, and the video was being shared at her school.

If this sounds somewhat familiar, it’s because Felicia’s circumstances sound tragically familiar to those of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University student who had sex with a man, was briefly spied on by his roommate, Dharun Ravi, and another friend, and who then leapt to his death from a bridge after Dharun joked about Tyler’s sexual encounter on Twitter.

Would you put your teen/tween/ or child on a diet? If you are like me, you probably went on your first diet when you were in middle school. My parents didn’t put me on a diet. They might have gently nudged me in the general direction with their comments and disapproving looks if I chose a piece of bread over broccoli.

There was a book last summer Maggie Goes on A Diet that absolutely mortified me. Its targeted reading level was for an audience of ages 4-8 years old. It was complete with cartoon like pictures to appeal to your preschool/elementary aged child. The book was about a 14-year-old girl who goes on a diet and transforms her extremely overweight and miserable life into being a thin girl who has it all.

Nick Christofano recently came up with a creative way to raise some funds to pay his stepdaughter Shelby Sisco's medical bills. He held a tattoo fundraiser.

Close to 50 people participated in "Tattooing for Shelby" to help her family with the costs associated with her fight against acute myeloid leukemia.

Remember how Julia Bluhm and other teens challenged Seventeen Magazine to publish one spread each month that wasn't airbrushed? Editor-in-Chief Ann Shocket took the pledge and pushed it farther than Bluhm or anyone could have imagined. From now on they're featuring girls with a variety of "realistic" body types and no more airbrushing those girls' images, either. Amazing win for teens!

So, how about Teen Vogue? Teen girls sent their petition to the Conde Nast magazine and... SIGH. Let's just say the editors were not quite as receptive to the message as the editors of Seventeen. 

Kim Kardashian isn't exactly known for keeping things under wraps, but even she was unusually forthcoming in a recent interview on Oprah's Next Chapter. She discussed the appeal of her family's reality show ("I don't think it would've happened if we were all skinny pretty models [...] I think it has to do with us, the curves, the dark hair"), her failed marriage to Kris Humphries ("When we moved in together, I saw how our relationship was ... I don't want to get into the small things, but once we moved in, I knew he was not the one"), and even her infamous sex tape ("You know, I think that's how I was definitely introduced to the world").

The confession that's been getting the most buzz, though, was that Kim started using birth control at 14 years old -- with her mother Kris Jenner's full blessing.

Some might find this information to be shocking, but I think this was one of the most positive and responsible revelations Kim Kardashian could have possibly shared.

We don't need a reality TV series to show us that life for a teen mom is tough. The conventional wisdom is that teen pregnancy leads to poverty -- especially if you never finish high school. But are we looking at this backwards?

Maybe it's not that having a baby makes teen moms poor. Maybe it's that teen moms have babies because they're poor.

That's the idea researchers Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip Levine considered when they took a close look at teen pregnancy. They found that it's when a teen sees that her prospects in life are dim that she chooses to become a mother.