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Focus on kids' mental health: report

The nation's first-ever national mental-health strategy is expected to call for an overhaul of services for children and youth - an under-resourced and fragmented system Canada's former mental-health commissioner says is in " [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Parents wire kids to prove teachers' verbal abuse

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Teachers hurled insults like "bastard," ''tard," ''damn dumb" and "a hippo in a ballerina suit." A bus driver threatened to slap one child, while a bus monitor t [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Kids use sight, sound in Easter egg hunt?

Every time a blind or visually impaired child comes upon one of Dick Franks’ beeping eggs at Friday’s annual chasing down of the colorful plastic orbs, his or her holiday will be just a little bit brighter. Thanks to longtime [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Keep the Kids Busy During Spring Break

Spring break is days away. What are you planning? I’ve got some ideas that will keep the kids busy while school is out. Some "must dos" on my family’s list include sleeping in, shopping, movies, and going out to dinn [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

CDC: US kids with autism up 78% in past decade

The number of children with autism in the United States continues to rise, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest data estimate that 1 in 88 American children has some for [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2012 | Comments : 0

Kids 'used as slave labour for drug crop'

Michael Bennett Gardner Sr forced the teenage children to sow and weed thousands of plants when they should have been at school, and beat them to make them work harder, the Supreme Court in Brisbane heard on Wednesday. He also tortured [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

More UK kids living with serious diseases: study

Researchers say that more kids are now living longer with serious ills, which has led to ?life-limiting" conditions becoming more widespread -- along with a need for special care of these children. The conditions include life-thre [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Lasting symptoms possible after kids' concussions: study

Concussion is by far the most common form of brain injury and has received increasing attention in the media, and millions of U.S. children get a concussion every year -- but many don't go to the hospital, said Keith Yeates at Nationw [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Doctors, parents, teachers, kids agree on limiting internet ...

NAGPUR: The present age is frequently referred to as the ICE (information, communication, entertainment) age, but most grown ups believe this makes for over exposure of kids to media. Sunday saw several doctors, parents and teachers discu [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

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

Georgia Receives Performance Bonus for Enrolling Kids in Chi...

Today 23 states were awarded federal funding for improving how they enroll children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.Georgia for the first time will receive a bonus. As WABE's Rose Scott reports, the money i [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Bubble-wrapping them for safety will breed anxious, fearful ...

One of Canada’s esteemed educators has taken swift action on a very serious issue. Anarchy had taken over the schoolyard at Earl Beatty Junior and Senior Public Schools in Toronto. Ball-playing kids were out of control. Hitting one [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Kids can’t be expected to just shrug off bullies

I was disappointed to see Susan Bird Charnley’s Oct. 12 letter responding to Robert Friedman’s Oct. 10 Local Opinions piece on bullying. “Grow a backbone and deal”? Being bullied for anything that makes a child fee [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Parents clueless about kids’ prescription drug abuse, state ...

More than half of parents say their kids have access to the parents’ prescription drugs, and one in seven say they’ve given their children prescription pain medication that wasn’t prescribed to the kids. That’s acc [...]