Yvette Brazier, Medical News Today Lazy eye, also called amblyopia, remains the most common cause of visual impairment in children. Amblyopia is poor vision in an eye that did not develop normally during early childhood. It can occur when one […]
Jill Robins, Yahoo Parenting Playdates and birthday parties: things that make me cringe. My two kids make enough mess and noise all by themselves. Then there are the parents, who I may or may not jell with, and the complex […]
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 […]
Drew Wood, Fatherly Ever look at your kid’s morning bowl of Cheerios (or their charred Pop Tart, no one’s judging you) and wonder what parents around the world feed their own kids for breakfast? It turns out, all sorts of […]
Aarti Shahani, WNYC Before age 1 (ONE!), nearly half of kids play games or watch videos on a mobile device. That’s according to one recent study of families with young children published in the journal Pediatrics. By the time they’re […]
Emma Brown, The Washington Post The violent arrest of a South Carolina high school student in class last month has triggered new scrutiny of the nation’s school resource officers, whose numbers have increased in recent decades alongside concerns about school […]
Lindsay Carlton, Fox News Most parents would agree that raising happy children is often easier said than done. Are you praising them too much or too little? Are you disciplining them enough? Teaching them the right skills? Trying to find […]
Matthew M Leahy, PhD, Psych Central The mental health community has come to understand that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be as common in children as in adults. What began as a disorder mostly of combat veterans has been shown […]
Quartz If you’re trying to eliminate pesticides from your children’s lives through a strictly organic diet, new research might make those efforts feel futile. A study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that an organic-only diet led to […]
Kadakkal Radhakrishnan, M.D., U.S. News & World Report Vitamin D is not only crucial for your child’s development, it’s also necessary for overall good health. But if you think your child is get is getting enough vitamin D, you could […]
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