The teen years don't have to be a time of family storm and stress. Most kids do just fine, and now psychologists are finding out why that is. AT 16, PURVA CHAWLA HOLDS GOOD RANKINGS IN SCHOOL and loves competing in drama and elocution contests. The New Delhi student is "head girl" of her school and plays for the table-tennis team. Recently she won a public-speaking contest organized by The Times of India, and the British Council selected her to travel to Britain with a group of young leaders to organize a sporting event for kids in Scotland. Even with all her extracurricular activities, she still makes it home for dinner with her parents and goes out to the movies with them twice a week. "I talk with them very freely about what's happening with my friends, boyfriends, whatever," she says.
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