In addition to the usual contributors to child obesity — excessive TV watching and indulging in sugary sodas, for instance — a new study finds another major culprit: eating school lunches.
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How Do Kids Handle Death? Better than Adults
My kids had their first intimate experience with death last week, and I think it was a growing experience for all of us.
The Key to Health, Wealth and Success: Self-Control
Self-control may be the secret to success, according to a persuasive new study that followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32: children who showed early signs of self-mastery were not only less likely to have developed …
Sniffles and Sneezes: Canadian Herbal Remedy Wants to Be Approved for Kids
Colds are the bane of a parent’s existence in wintertime, which is pretty much the equivalent of perpetual runny-nose season. The drug manufacturer that can successfully develop a remedy for the sneezing, drippy noses, …
Giffords Shooting: To Kids, It’s As Simple As “Use Your Words”
I happened to be sitting down and eating breakfast with my two older children a few minutes before 8 a.m., Pacific time, on Monday morning. Scanning the front page of The Seattle Times, I saw that President Obama had called for …
Ethics, Shmethics. Teaching Kids Right from Wrong Isn’t Easy
As parents, we are tasked with teaching our children the difference between wrong and right. It’s easy when they’re very young, and most of their moral encounters are black or white: We don’t hit people. We don’t make fun …
Study: Kids Eat Less Sugar If They’re Allowed to Sweeten their Own Cereal
Last year, I wrote about a study that showed cereal companies market the cereals with the sugariest nutritional profiles to kids, essentially encouraging children to choose Froot Loops over, say, Cheerios.
What Happens to Elizabeth Edwards’ Kids Now that She’s Gone?
Earlier this year, women’s average life expectancy climbed above 80 for the first time. Of course, that’s just a statistic, and statistics pale in the face of real-life circumstances. When breast cancer killed Elizabeth
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Little Kids Playing Sports. What’s So Wrong with That?
My first reaction when I saw a recent New York Times story about really little kids taking to the playing field was: “That’s my daughter!” Not exactly, of course; same uniform, different child.
More Muppets? The New ‘Superfoods’ Want Kids to Eat Healthy
Everyone knows that the average kid’s favorite food is generally not green and reminiscent of a tiny tree. But that could change, if the Muppets have anything to do with it — and they might.
‘Love Hormone’ Oxytocin Enhances Men’s Memories of Mom — Good or Bad
Oxytocin has been called the “cuddle chemical” and the “love hormone” — the glue that bonds parents to children and lovers to each other.
Study: Some Benefits of Probiotics for Kids
A new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) finds that probiotics — types of “good” bacteria that colonize in your gut and may help improve digestion, immune defense and even metabolism — can have certain health …
Do Kids of Divorce Have Strokes More Often?
Of all the odd and unexpected consequences of divorce — missing kitchen utensils, kids with two sets of everything, a weird sense of sadness yet liberation — this is a new one.