Noteworthy 1.0
Noteworthy stuff that has crossed my desk in recent days: - It’s all about the nicotine: Efforts to reduce the health impact of tobacco use have historically concentrated on two key strategies:...
View ArticleDeceptive little pills
One Sunday afternoon several years ago, my then preschool-aged niece decided to host a tea party for her dolls and stuffed animals. The beverage: thimble-sized sips of flavored cough syrup. Her parents...
View ArticleThe summer of being unscheduled
Back in March, Pamela Cytrynbaum, who blogs at Family Goes Strong, started receiving all the brochures for music camp, science camp, soccer camp, art camp, theater camp, swimming lessons and the 1,001...
View ArticleTaking concussions more seriously
In the past five years, brain experts have learned more about concussions than in all the previous years put together. It’s now known that a concussion is actually a mild form of brain injury, with...
View ArticleFree-range kids
Do kids fare better emotionally, socially and physically when they’re allowed plenty of unstructured time to play? Children don’t benefit from being overly programmed, researchers contend in a series...
View ArticleSalad days in school
I don’t remember much about school lunches back when I was in grade school and junior high, other than that the fare generally consisted of canned vegetables, some form of meat and lots of...
View ArticleThe kids are going vegan
Children’s books aren’t usually known for being controversial, but a new book about kids and veganism has touched off a storm of debate about everything from hunger to animal cruelty to large-scale...
View ArticleFor better health, give a child a book
Years ago, when I was in grade school, a relative mailed us a boxful of books one summer. They were the Dr. Seuss classics – “The Cat in the Hat,” “Horton Hears a Who,” “If I Ran the Circus,” “The …...
View ArticleParents, overweight kids and a minefield of blame and judgment
When Dara-Lynn Weiss wrote an article for Vogue magazine last year about putting her then 7-year-old daughter on a diet, she created a firestorm of controversy. “One of the most (bleeped) up, selfish...
View ArticleThe hard life of kids
Alec Fischer’s documentary about bullying in Minnesota’s schools is only 45 minutes long but it clearly packs an emotional punch, as a local audience saw for itself last week. During a showing of the...
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