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Want More Attentive Kids? Get Them to the Green Spaces
Living close to green spaces is associated with better attention in children (read more)
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How We Push Clever Kids to Cheat
Kids praised for being smart are more likely to cheat, new studies find (read more)
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Mum-Shaming: Who does it most (and does it have any effect)?
Advice or abuse? Giving opinions on mothers’ parenting skills can have unintended consequences (read more)
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Born to Love Heroes? Fairness, Justice, and Children
Japanese research into the roots of justice may contain hints for solving social ills (read more)
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Pregnant? Avoid Liquorice.
Liquorice can have long-term harmful effects on foetal development (read more)
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Good Dads Make Happy Kids (and they don’t even need to clean up)
How new fathers see themselves in child’s early years seems to be most influential on kids’ later life (read more)
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Motocross Kids Get Injured Often – End This Madness!
Study finds youth motocross racing injuries severe despite required safety gear (read more)
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Parents’ Terror at Physical Activity Guidelines for Kids
Many parents lack the confidence to get their kids to exercise (read more)
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The Right Kind of Screen Zombie: iPads For Child Sedation
iPads are as effective as sedatives for children before operations (read more)
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Absolut-ly Shocking. Children, and the Impact of Alcohol Advertising
Middle-school kids see several alcohol ads a day (read more)
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Sick of Screen Time Tantrums? Blame the Gadget
Two-minute warnings make kids’ ‘screen time’ tantrums worse (read more)
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Return of the Little Matchgirl: How Tory Cuts Will Affect Children’s Health
Poor children will be hit hardest by government welfare cuts, warn experts (read more)
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Smartmouthed Kids get the Grades: Vocabulary & Academic Achievement
Two-year-old children with larger oral vocabularies enter U.S. kindergarten classrooms better at reading and mathematics (read more)
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Too Much Telly Gets Your Toddler… Bullied?!
The toddler ‘s TV watching habits were reported by their parents and their victimization in grade 6 was self-reported by the children themselves. (read more)
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Child Safety? There’s an App for That
Health professionals can and should unite with industry to optimize children’s already frequent use of mobile devices to help promote their health and well-being (read more)
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Piling it On : Television and Obese Children
Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese (read more)
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Kids’ Play Needs No Goals
Children’s perspectives are rarely taken into account within public health, although they have social and scientific value. (read more)
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For Sale: Future Trophy Wife
Parents to clamp down on the sexy child market.
The UK Government is setting up a governing body to assess and prevent over-sexualisation of children in marketing, advertising and product sales. Citing examples of children’s lap-dancing kits, playboy pencil cases and t-shirts in preteen sizes featuring the slogans such ‘future trophy wife’ it is claimed that children are being sexualised inappropriately for their age. (read more)