Blogs Posts in Kids category; 466 blog posts

Indigenous kids excluded from survey tests

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) official were asked today during a senate estimates hearing about a decision to exclude Aboriginal children from the voluntary bio-medical testing element of the survey. "I'm trying to und [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

FDA: Shortage of kids' cancer drug can be averted

The Food and Drug Administration has managed to avert a "crisis" for children with cancer by preventing a looming shortage of a lifesaving drug, officials announced Tuesday. The shortage of methotrexate — a mainstay of tre [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Shhh! The Kids Need More Sleep -- Or Do They?

Kids don't get the recommended amount of sleep -- and they never have. That's the conclusion of Australian researchers who tracked changes in sleep recommendations, and what was known about actual sleep time, over more than a cent [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Bilingual kids gain benefits in literacy skills

Bilingual children score higher on some cognitive tests than children who speak only English, a new Toronto study found. It's known that children who grow up speaking two languages tend to be slower in picking up each language than ch [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Kids can be encouraged to start cooking at early age

We're all for parenting advice that extols the virtues of less work. Which is why we love the idea of handing off meal prep to the kids. "One way to help a child feel needed, important and valued in the family is to put him or [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Parents urged to talk to kids after sex grooming sting

New Zealand's internet watchdog is telling parents to warn their children about online dangers after TV ONE's Close Up tracked down men preying on a fictitious 14-year-old girl for sex. A Close Up reporter confronted men in par [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Kids may have higher obesity risk if dad is overweight, stud...

Kids might be at higher risk for obesity if dad is overweight, a study suggests.Other studies have shown an association between two overweight parents and higher weight in their children, and weight relationships between fathers and sons [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Kids' weight gains not due to junk food at schools

The junk food sold at schools does not appear to contribute to middle schoolers' weight gains, a new study says. In the study, no link was found between children's weight gain and the amount of time between fifth and eighth grade [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Parents dumping kids at play centres

Parents are dumping their children at indoor play centres so they can go shopping or to avoid the soaring cost of day care, according to a Herald Sun investigation. The paper says police are being called in every week after children were [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Half of Class 5 kids can’t read Class 2 texts

An authoritative annual report on the status of school education in India has confirmed the bad news from the international PISA ratings last month. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2011, prepared by the NGO Pratham, shows tha [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Study: Breastfed babies tend to cry more

Breastfeeding babies could be crankier than bottle-fed babies, and new mothers should be informed this heightened irritability is natural, a new study by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge, England suggested. In the MRC Ep [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

How to teach your kids math and reading through everyday act...

Most Canadian parents want to devote more time to helping educate their children, but many aren’t taking advantage of moments during routine tasks to share their knowledge, a new poll suggests. The Ipsos Reid survey conducted on beh [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Kids won't have any problems outwitting the parental control...

Lenovo is to launch a TV built on the Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ platform. One of the cool features that this TV will offer is a parental control mechanism that relies on facial recognition. This is a feature that the ki [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Sugary drinks tied to breastfed kids' weight

The research, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is one of the first looks at the combined effects of breastfeeding and how many sugary drinks, like soda and juice drinks, children consume in the first few years of t [...]