Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read