Your Teenager’s Acne

It can be heart breaking to see your teens suffer from acne. The low self-esteem it causes can be extreme. Teens, both – male and female are very sensitive about the way they look. Acne can be hard to get rid of and also leave scars. A good course of action is to prevent them from starting in the first place by taking some preventative measures.

Usually a bad case of acne starts with a blackhead. Your teen picks at this thinking it is a pore filled with dirt. This is an illusion Oil, dead cells and other substance block the pore and mix with bacteria and it is the exposure to air that turns it black. Once these become inflamed they turn into the angry red pustules we know as teenage acne. What it really amounts to being are a hole in the skin that can become inflamed.

Over time these inflamed pustules develop white heads and when these break they cause horrible scarring on the face. Many teens, especially girls find this quite disfiguring. Unfortunately covering up these scars with make up is also not such a hot idea. It can make the acne problem look even worse.

There are some acne home remedies you can try. Some are actually silly sounding but they do work. Some might worsen the condition. Common remedies include toothpaste, egg whites, ice, salt water, and steam, wheat germ and apple cider vinegar. Usually these ingredients are applied directly to the acne pustule in an attempt to shrink the inflammation.

Your teen's acne may also respond to Acutance. If it is you that has the acne keep in mind that you may not be pregnant while taking it. The same goes for a pregnant teen if you should, God forbid, happen to have one!

Sometimes it is just hormones. Birth control pills may be prescribed to a girl to help correct her acne in that case. Some teen girls break out in acne around their period just like we do. In adult acne incases the pustules almost always develop along with a severe case of premenstrual syndrome or PMS.

There are also a lot of herbal remedies for acne. Herbs such as juniper, dandelion root, chamomile, lavender, bergamot, and burdock root can be used to reduce toxicity and improve the overall condition of the skin. Echinacea, pokeroot and red clover may aid us.

Witch hazel is a cheap medicine that can help dry up acne and it has excellent astringent properties.

If scarring is really bad you can get acne laser surgery. This can help clear it completely. Laser surgery is very safe and there is next to no risk of damaging the skin surrounding the scar. This is important as acne scars can affect a person's self-esteem for a very long time in life.

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It’s Not Too Late for a Summer Job

If your teen has not gotten a summer job by now it is definitely time. Don't let him or her slack off all summer. You are only teaching him or her that it is aright to be a bit lazy. Also you if you have a kid about to go into college you are wasting valuable time that could be spent earning income.

There are a couple of things that you can do to help your teen find summer work. This is good to keep your teen busy over the summer. They earn cash and learn responsibility. The money they make can go towards saving for college or even to you depending on what your circumstances dictate. Unfortunately poverty is such a problem in the United States that many teens work just to support families instead of saving for college.

Still they are not far away from that time in life when they will have to become full-fledged workers in society. This means developing a work ethic and sense of discipline. The more varied the businesses are that your teen works in the better of he or she will be. Being employed also keeps your teen off of the street and teaches them to be self-sufficient.

You can help your teen find a summer job. Half the time it is just asking the local business or friends who own local businesses if thinned help. You can also put your heads together with your kid's teacher or guidance counselor to figure out what might be a good place for him or her to look for a job. Often the schools know if any local factories or corporations are hiring and what companies are offering special student programs.

I always try to get my teen some kind of outdoor job so that he or she is not cooped up in an office mall or basement of some kind all summer. I try to help him or her find a job I would like and that still offers them chance to get some fresh air. Witnessing on a patio or landscaping is good jobs for that.

Once your teen gets a job they have an opportunity to learn how to take orders, how to rune business and how to deice what field of business they might want to go into after high school. It also gives them a chance to see how easy or hard certain businesses may be.

As a parent I know I want the very best for my teen. That is why I step in to help her find a job. I don't care if others see me as meddling. I only want her to get as much experience as possible and to be as autonomous in life as possible.

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