By Anna M. Phillips Many California school districts offer their staff little or no guidance on when police should be called to control student behavior, according to a new study that comes as districts face increased pressure to redefine law enforcement’s role in public […]
David K. Li, New York Post You’re getting sleepy. Now go do your homework! A professional hypnotist claims she can use her powers of persuasion to make even the worst-behaved kids act like angels. “Hypnosis and parenting is a natural […]
Jesse Singal, New York Magazine It is a stressful time to be a parent. Amidst an explosion of oft-conflicting advice on how to help your kids flourish — or at least not screw them up too badly — parents could […]
Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Within a day of the Dec. 2 terrorist attacks that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., bomb-detecting dogs swept through local public schools that attacker Syed Farook had visited in recent weeks, a district official […]
United Nations Report 30 November 2015 – Nearly three years after the “devastating” conflict began in the Central African Republic (CAR), an estimated 1.2 million children are now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, said the United Nations Children’s Fund […]
Maggie Fox, NBC News American kids are being hurt and killed by the spread of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” pediatricians said Monday. The World Health Organization cautioned that people around the world still don’t understand much about antibiotic resistance, what it means […]
Josh Barro, The New York Times According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth in the United States was 78.8 years in 2013 — 76.4 years for men, 81.2 years for women. But I have […]
Maggie Fox, NBC News Obese kids as young as 8 years old already have dangerous damage to their hearts, researchers reported on Tuesday. Imaging scans of their hearts show a thickening of the muscle — a sign of strain that […]
Ruchika Tulshyan, Forbes Offering paid maternity and paternity leave is one part of advancing women at work. The larger challenge is to make it culturally acceptable–to not penalize employees– for taking it. Amazon just announced a monumental shift in its […]
Carina Storrs, CNN Food companies have been increasing their advertising to children for chips and other junk foods, even as marketing of healthy snacks such as yogurt has not kept pace, according to a report released on Monday. About 40% […]
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