Blogs Posts in Kids category; 499 blog posts

Asthma Linked to Poorer Childhood Diabetes Control

Children with both asthma and diabetes seem to have a harder time keeping their blood sugar under control, a new study released Monday suggests. According to Reuters, researchers found that among 2,000 3- to 21-year-olds with diabetes, 11 [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Callout for kids art work

With autumn officially here, KidsPost really needs some fall-themed weather art to be featured in the upper right-hand corner of our page Monday through Thursday. So get out your markers, crayons and pencils and think falling leaves, pump [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Health coverage for Arizona children among lowest in nation

Children were less likely to have health insurance in Arizona than in any state except Texas or Nevada, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau. It said 12.58 percent of children in the state – roughly one of every [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Monday Teeny Poll

Last week I wanted to know if you read tabloid newspapers, and zero of you felt you were addicted. However, not quite the same when applied to gossip news sites on the internets, where 40% of you often find yourself reading about th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Talk therapy may ease OCD in kids

Medications such as fluoxetine (Prozac) or sertraline (Zoloft) are often the first-line treatment for kids who have OCD. However, "Most kids on medication still have symptoms," said John Piacentini, head of the Child OCD, Anx [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids must be in a booster seat

Law officers are stressing the need for parents to follow Georgia's new child safety seat law. According to a AAA survey, 25% of you don't think a booster seat is necessary after a child outgrows a car seat. But the law changed in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

For Boys & Girls Club exec, every day's a chance to help kid...

Ken Rubeli didn't want to forge his identity as the son of a casino boss. His father, Paul, is a former chief executive officer of Aztar Corp., which once owned the Tropicana hotel-casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas and riverboats [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids may not be drinking enough low-fat milk, the CDC report...

Children may be coming up short when it comes to drinking low-fat milk, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. A recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics finds that, although milk and milk products [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Cycle of 'compulsive consumerism' leaves British family life...

The report by Unicef, the UN children's agency, warns that materialism has come to dominate family life in Britain as parents "pointlessly" amass goods for their children to compensate for their long working hours. While [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Winnipeg kids get Nash time

Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash was in Winnipeg on Monday to receive the St. Boniface Hospital Foundation’s International Award to recognize his humanitarian activities through the Steve Nash Foundation at a fundraising dinner held at t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

DVF: New Kids on the Catwalk

There was a big surprise at Diane Von Furstenberg this afternoon when both Oscar de la Renta and Valentino, fashion’s singing designers, turned up the front row. And they were wearing almost the same thing. It wasn’t quit [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

More to worry about than wedded bliss

It dawned on Paul Watson after his bucks party that of the nine mates in attendance eight had children but only one was married. ''That's why there wasn't much talk of weddings,'' he recalls. The 31-year-old data e [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids not learning 'Twins Way'

There have been many afternoons this summer when a major league ballpark has been turned into a classroom for Twins manager Ron Gardenhire and his staff. As the losses have mounted, the coaching staff has had to go over fundamentals ag [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids around smokers miss more school, study finds

Smoking doesn't just harm children's health — it also may lower their performance in school and cost their families money. That's because children who live in homes where at least one person smokes inside the house miss [...]