Where Children Sleep
Some kids experience childhood in poverty, lacking food and sanitation, while others are born in countries where basic necessities are taken for granted. Photographer James Mollison came up with the project when he thought about his own childhood bedroom and how it reflected who he was.
Continue reading… “16 eye opening photos of children and their bedrooms from across the world”
Kids drinking low-fat milk tended to be heavier.
Parenting toddlers is not an easy job. Consider the 2-year-old to-do list: Get tantrums under control. Potty train. Transition from whole milk to low-fat milk.
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“Most of us can’t recall anything about infancy, it’s only at about 3- or 4-years of age we can start to remember.”
A majority of adults suffer from childhood amnesia. They are unable to remember infancy or toddlerhood. That’s what scientists thought. But a new study indicates that even six years after the fact, a small percentage of tots as young as 2 can recall a unique event .
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Music lessons makes you smarter.
If you want your child to be smart and intelligent then, make sure your kid learns to play musical instruments, scientists say. University of Kansas Medical Center researchers have found that practicing musical instruments as a child not only help him mastering the instrument, it also provides a boost to his brain decades later.
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Girls are reaching puberty earlier than any generation in history.
Doctor’s don’t completely understand why girls are maturing faster than ever. Girls are hitting puberty earlier than any other generation in history.
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ADHD children cannot stop daydreaming according to a new study.
Children with attention deficit disorder have brains that cannot stop daydreaming, claims a new study. Researchers found that they physically find it harder to switch off a “default setting” of the brain designed to pass the time when not focused on a task.
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Small increases in the cost of soda will have little impact on children
Small scale increases in the cost of soda likely have little impact on childhood obesity, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs. Soda taxes have been proposed as a means for fighting obesity by several prominent health researchers, and some public health officials have sparked controversy by advocating for steep taxes on soft drinks to deter consumption. Yet, while previous research has shown that increased cost of soda leads to decreased consumption—a 10% price increase corresponds with an 8% reduction—there has been little analysis of how increased cost actually influences weight, and no analysis of this impact on children, they argue. To remedy that, the team of researchers from the RAND Corporation, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Institute for Health Research and Policy used current data on state soda taxes and children’s weight to assess the influence of soda tariffs both on consumption and childhood obesity.
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Sharp increase in chronic health problems in children
The rates of childhood chronic health problems, including obesity, asthma and learning disabilities, have doubled in just 12 years, a new study reports — to 1 in 4 children in 2006, up from 1 in 8 in 1994.
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A Duke University study of more than 3,000 orphaned and abandoned children in five Asian and African countries has found that children in institutional orphanages fare as well or better than those who live in the community.
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Children who can stay focused and don’t sweat the small stuff have a better shot at good health in adulthood — and this is especially true for girls, according to a new study.
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Early onset of sexual activity among teens may relate to the amount of adult content children were exposed to during their childhood, according to a new study released by Children’s Hospital Boston. Based on a longitudinal study tracking children from age six to eighteen, researchers found that the younger children are exposed to content intended for adults in television and movies, the earlier they become sexually active during adolescence. The findings are being presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meetings on Monday, May 4 in Baltimore.
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