Provide age-appropriate information.

Description: Provides age-appropriate information about the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

This Web site offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand.

Outside Help Doctors and schools can also play a vital role in a teen-ager's sexual education, which should start in early childhood with age-appropriate information.

Medical exams and tests can be scary for children, so it is important to give them age-appropriate information.

But instruction should also include age-appropriate, complete and accurate information about other methods of protection.

"If you don't give your children age-appropriate information about what's happening, they'll fill in the gaps with their own, often-dire fantasies about their parent's illness," said Dr. Karolynn Siegel, the director of research in the department of social work at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.