When it comes to sports these days, anything a boy can do a girl can do too. Seems like every high school football season there are more and more stories about girls playing football and playing it well.
A new review of previous research indicates that there could be a correlation between the amount of time children spend outside and nearsightedness.
Researchers analyzed the results of eight different studies, involving more than 10,000 participants, and found that children who are nearsighted spend an average of 3.7 fewer hours a week outside than children with normal vision.
When Patrick Myshrall scored a touchdown during a Massachusetts high school football game, a win for his team was already impossible. But the touchdown signaled a different sort of victory for Myshrall since he has Down Syndrome.
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: Your toddler would rather go exploring than stay in the safe confines of his crib. So he does. Over and over and over.
October 20, 2011 I had the nicest visit this morning with three lovely young ladies from the Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma.
Students at Evergreen Park High School in Illinois may be well-advised to avoid excessive water intake — or find themselves with longer school days.
Some teachers there have implemented a policy of allowing each student only three bathroom visits during class each semester. Any subsequent visits require students to make up the class time later in the day.
Dubstep is the hot new dance trend that’s sweeping the internet.
The most popular video, featuring Marquese Scott dancing to a dubstep remix of Foster the People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks,’ has close to nine million views on YouTube. And kids just can’t get enough of it.
Xavier Lamb, the brave six-year-old who was caught by a firefighter on Monday after being dropped from the window of a burning building, offered thanks to his rescuer on ‘Today.’
Pediatricians and development experts have strongly urged parents, once again, to limit the amount of television their young children watch.
The American Academy of Pediatrics released a recommendation to all parents of children under 2 years old Tuesday. It stressed that any time spent in front of a video screen provides no educational benefits for children under age 2 and can even delay development by leaving less time for important interaction and play.
A selfless mother has died to save her unborn baby.
The woman was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of cancer and refused chemotherapy so that her child could be born, even though it meant she would die.
In its latest guidelines for doctors, the American Academy of Pediatrics is advising against the usage of bumper pads in cribs, saying they may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
Naming a child is usually the first big decision a new parent makes, and one that almost one and ten would like to do be able to do again.
