children

Since the beginning of packaged and marketed cereals, there's been debate about the health (or lack thereof) benefits of the breakfast staple - especially in regards to those brands primarily targeted at children.  Nutritionists bemoan the high amounts of sugar, while the manufacturers say that without a sweet taste, the kids won't eat it;  Those food companies suggest that it's better for kids to

It appears that children with same-sex parents occasionally turn out significantly worse than those children that come from stable married heterosexual parents. That’s the word from a new, controversial study out of the University of Texas.

We have all seen the horrifying outcome of parents who spoil their children. The tyranny these little monsters yield can sometimes wreak the same twisted havoc as a lone wild animal searching for its next meal.

“LA’s Friendliest Gentlemen’s Club”, the Jet Strip Cabaret, almost justified their slogan recently when they tried to donate $1,200 to save the Lennox Little League’s season.

I'm a parent, so I'm sympathetic to the the mood-swings of children;  I fully understand that sometimes kids aren't happy and that at their age, they're not as experienced at understanding the need to sometimes suppress their true feelings in return for social etiquette...

Teen truancy is a real problem for a lot of schools, but especially so for the Dohn Community High School in Cincinnati. It only has a 14% graduation rate and has been deemed an “academic emergency” by the state of Ohio. So the school is trying out a novel approach: it’s paying students to show up and behave themselves.

A boy in Cleveland, OH, who weighs more than 200 pounds, was taken from his mother by authorities last week. Officials were forced to remove the third-grader from his home when caseworkers decided that his mother’s inability to reduce his weight constituted medical neglect.

While many college grads are only too happy to fly their parents’ nest and get a place of their own, the dip in the economy has meant some can’t — or won’t — until they feel more financially able to do so comfortably. What does this mean for the economy? Unfortunately, nothing good.

A recent research study focused on the marketing tactics of the soft drink industry.  The data demonstrated how the beverage companies focus their marketing on children. The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale found that from 2006 to 2008, the number of advertisements children and teens saw for regular soda doubled...

So, researchers have linked the rise in acceptable profanity on television to the increased use of these words by kids.  Do you think? Children are very impressionable.  They watch, listen, and soak up everything that they're exposed to...

Kids always look forward to trick-or-treating on Halloween, but a new study from the Centers for Disease and Prevention may give some parents pause. The CDC reports children are four times more likely to be hit by cars on October 31 than on any other day of the year — probably not terribly surprising, given the increase in the number of kids who are out and about on Halloween.

Don't tell Squidward:  Researchers are claiming that television programs like Spongebob Squarepants squash the ability for young minds to think clearly and focus on information. Psychologists have now found that a brief exposure to SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward and the rest of the crew also appears to dampen preschoolers' brain power...