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AFP - Children under the age of five who don't get enough sleep at night are more likely than kids who do get their 40 winks to become obese at a young age, a study published Monday showed.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- For HIV-infected children in the developing world, treatment choices have been limited by concerns over the possible development of resistance to drugs they received as infants during failed attempts t...
AFP - Taiwanese authorities are to offer subsidised babysitting in a bid to boost the island's dwindling birth rate, one of the world's lowest, an official said Tuesday.
Reuters - Wearing a programmable wristwatch could help children manage their daytime bladder control problems, a new study suggests.
Reuters - Pakistan's displaced flood victims say a lack of clean water and high temperatures are causing illnesses sweeping through relief camps with children most at risk.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease experience more life-threatening complications from the H1N1 swine flu than from seasonal flu, a new study has found.
AFP - Exposure to chemicals used to make non-stick cookware and which are found in microwave popcorn may raise blood cholesterol levels in children, a study says.
LiveScience.com - As schools start back into session around the country, some parents of young children face a difficult question: Send their little ones to kindergarten as soon as they become age-eligible, or hold them back in hopes that an addition...
HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- When given the choice to gaze at geometric patterns or children dancing and playing, toddlers with autism spent more time looking at the patterns while typically developing toddlers preferred to look at...
Reuters - An estimated five million uninsured children in the United States were eligible for Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) but were not enrolled in either plan, according to a new report.
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Resources For Parents
- Go For Your Goals: Goal Setting for Kids -
Goal Setting & Visualization for Kids - Designed to Help You Guide Your Kids to Achieve Great Success in Life. Improves self-esteem and achievement motivation.
- Being A Happy Effective Parent (CD) -
Parenting can be one of the most enjoyable, rewarding, and challenging roles of our lives. This audio program will help you make the most of this opportunity. You will learn how you can help your children become more happy, independent and successful.
- Better Behavior Wheel Parenting Tool -
A unique soft-ware program based on proven behavior modification principles that makes providing appropriate consequences for behavior easy and actually fun for parents and kids.
- Talking to Toddlers -
An audio course for parents that teaches parents how to encourage appropriate behavior, teach emotional control and develop a positive attitude to prepare them for school and for life.
- Discipline Your Kid The Right Way Without Shouting or Spanking -
The road to good discipline begins with you and your child, and your commitment to a better way! This Parent Education Module will show you how to break your old habits, stop spanking and yelling, and learn new techniques that will make you and your children happier and make your relationship more rewarding!
- Child Anger Management for Parents -
An effective, simple, easy to use solution for handling anger and temper tantrums. Uses positive discipline approach based on proven behavior modification principles.
- Instant Baby Sleep -
Audio soundtrack developed by a sound engineer based on acoustic and neuropsychological research that can produce sleep in a matter of minutes. Plus parent guide that provides tips and directions for use.
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