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Skills for Healthy Living: Playing It Safe

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Illness and injuries are part of growing up, but there are ways to protect yourself. Find out how to play it safe in this video.

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Sun Ming Ming (1:09)

Sun Ming Ming dreams of transforming his life beyond the one he knows at home outside Harbin, China. Learn more about being really, really tall in this video from Discovery.

Skills for Healthy Living: Eating Disorders and Control (16:02)

Although pressure to conform to unrealistic standards of beauty can be a factor, many experts believe most eating disorders stem from a need for control.

Skills for Healthy Living: Learning to Like Yourself (12:11)

Teens discuss ways to build confidence and self-esteem, focusing on individual talents and accepting themselves for who they are.

Skills for Healthy Living: Teens and Hormones (15:29)

Natural changes and hormonal imbalances often emerge during the teen years, making adolescence stressful and unpleasant for some people.

Skills for Healthy Living: Coping With Change (12:58)

Teens talk about their experiences with divorcing or remarrying parents, family financial trouble and increased independence.

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Skills for Healthy Living: Dealing With Disabilities (28:31)

Living with a health condition or disability presents a big challenge to some teens, but it doesn't have to keep them from achieving their goals. Learn more about dealing with disabilites in this video.

Kids Saving Kids: Resolving Conflict Creatively (4:49)

Check out this video to learn some effective techniques for resolving conflict.

Kids Saving Kids: Teen Line (2:55)

Check out this video on the Teen Line, a non-profit group dedicated to providing counseling services for teens who are contemplating suicide or know someone who might be.

Kids Saving Kids: Teens On Target Program (5:29)

Watch this video to lean more about the Teens on Target program.

Adolescent Conflict: Taking a Time Out (2:11)

It takes responsibility to cool your emotions and prevent an escalation towards a dangerous conflict. Taking a time out when things began to get heated is always a good idea.

Adolescent Conflict: Reasons To Avoid Escalation (2:43)

Aggressive escalations in behavior can lead to unwanted conflicts and consequences. Expulsion from school or a trip to the hospital may be the result of a needless conflict.

Adolescent Conflict: Avoid Escalating Issues (2:34)

In this video, a student advises other teens how to avoid conflict. Overreacting, saying things without thinking and a fear of looking foolish can all contribute to unwanted conflict in a teen's life.

Adolescent Conflict: Player Misses A Penalty Shot (2:36)

After a player misses a shot during the big game, his adolescent peers begin taunting him and calling him names. Some students blame him for the team's loss and he even receives a few challenges to fight.

The Amazing Brain: The Role of the Amygdala (2:17)

A teenage brain processes information differently from an adult brain.

You're Right and So Am I: Respecting Others (17:30)

In this video, watch as students are given simple and effective strategies for showing respect for the ideas of others and learn to deal with differences of opinion, taste and views.