Source: Children’s Aid Society   Does your family spend too much time watching TV and not enough time taking walks? Does your family have a history of diabetes or heart disease? A recent report from the Surgeon General states that between 15 and 25 percent of school children in the United States is overweight, placing them… Read more

Parents Magazine by Kristen Kemp I know a 3-year-old boy who won’t eat pasta of any kind, not even mac and cheese. I know another 2-year-old girl who will hardly eat anything else. Getting kids to eat healthy, varied and normal food can be like trying to tie your shoe with your teeth. It’s completely impossible–and totally gross. I’ll… Read more

Time Magazine for Kids The FDA releases two new requirements for improving food safety By Cameron Keady with TIME Reporting Proper washing and treatment of produce like spinach, shown here, helps reduce the spread of bacteria and food-borne illnesses. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two proposals to improve food safety. The… Read more

These simple ideas teach your children to be nice, generous people, one good deed at a time. By Kristine Breese from Parents Magazine Happy to Help Great thinkers from Martin Luther King Jr. to the Dalai Lama to my daughter, Addison, all have had something to say about the importance of helping others. The civil-rights leader stated,… Read more

By Shawn Bean, Parenting.com   (Parenting.com) — Timber Branagan preferred the orange light. No wait, the green light. Oh, and the red too. “I loved all of them!” the 6-year-old says enthusiastically. Choosing a custom color for her hospital room was one of Timber’s favorite perks at Nemours Children’s Hospital, the new 60-acre health campus outside Orlando…. Read more

The Health and Wellness Blog by Daniela Payne September, 14, 2011 So everyone’s back in the swing of things, right? The kids are back at school and and they’re starting to get used to heading out the door in the morning for a fun-filled day of learning. Did you know there’s a bunch of delicious foods… Read more

Huffington Post By Lisa Belkin When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you are a parent, everything sounds like a parenting message. We notice it first about the news — new parents realize they will never watch a story about an injured child with the same eyes. Then we widen our… Read more

Health Magazine By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) — The notion that something is “easier said than done” could have been conceived for the task of getting kids to eat healthy foods. But health experts warn that the consequences can be dire if kids don’t learn to love fresh spinach, for… Read more