Obese children are more prone to becoming overweight adults and increase their risks of developing heart disease, cancers, diabetes.
Behaviour
Parents who want their kids to eat vegetables can try a new tactic. A study found that kids were four times more likely to so if they grew the vegetables.
Want kids to eat vegetables? Grow your own!
Bullying has a strong negative effect on children's self-esteem and mental well-being that can take years to overcome
Peer bullying perhaps more harmful than abuse by adults
It's not just adults, even children can be depressed. Learn more about the signs of childhood depression.
Signs of childhood depression
Bad habits are hard to break. Being honest with your children about yours while still enforcing good habits may be beneficial in the long run.
Teach kids about bad habits the good way
Young women use social media to look at themselves as objects and compare their appearance to their friends and peers. This is not healthy for their self esteem. Click to read more.
Facebook can be unhealty for young womens’ self esteem
Kids don't need all their problems solved for them. Rather, parents need to coach them on how to deal with problems and learn to be self reliant. Click to read more.
Step back in order to raise a self-reliant child
In an online fundraising drive that was nothing like a swayamvar, men still competed to appear more generous, especially if the person receiving the money was an attractive female. Men are creatures of evolution.
No surprise: men compete to impress attractive women
Dealing with trauma or conflict is something that everyone has to go through some time. However, it can be overwhelming for children. Click to read more.
Helping children cope with trauma
In a stunning finding, researchers report that couples who had more sex for the purposes of an experiment didn't become happier. Click to read more.
Having more sex for science isn’t satisfying says science
When one restaurant replaced unhealthy items with healthier options, orders of healthy foods increased and the restaurant's revenue continued to grow.
Kids eat healthy food if it’s on the kids menu
As you worry about the perfect cot or chew sticks, don'f forget that you also need to train your puppy. The sooner you start the easier it will be.
Train your puppy from the first day
A Canadian woman got the shock of her life on a flight to Japan when she gave surprise birth to a baby while flying over the Pacific Ocean. Click to read more.
When “gas” turns out to be a baby
Study says sleepwalking in children is seven times more likely if both the parents have a history of it. Click to read more.
Sleepwalking in children could be genetic
Indulging your appetite on a short holiday may not seem like a big deal. However, binge eating on high-fat food can disrupt your metabolism. Click to read more.
Holiday high-fat binge eating can wreck your metabolism
Children's reading skills drop over summer holidays, even though they are assigned books to read. But kids who choose their books improve reading skills. Click to learn more.
Given book choice, kids improve reading skills
Getting children to pay attention in class for long periods is a challenge for any teacher, but giving them standing desks seems to help. Click to read more.
Standing desks get kids’ attention
Experiences that incite awe in us can benefit our health and friendships. Click to be amazed!
Awesome is good for health and friendship
New research indicates that a daily dose of omega-3 fatty acids, like in fish oil, can help children control their outbursts. Click to read more.
Fish-oil may even help with behaviour problems
There was time in human evolution when a mother's older children started helping raise their younger siblings, which continues to present day.
Evolution led to older children helping raise siblings
If your pre-teen or adolescent is rude to you and argues about everything you say, your work in guiding them to adulthood is just beginning. Click to read more.