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Expert tips on how nursing mothers can help protect their babies from food allergies
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- August 8, 2018
“Even for women who aren’t going to be able to breastfeed on a regular basis, really try to do so right after birth. It’s different from the milk produced even a few days later, because it’s packed with a lot of factors that get the baby’s immune system off to a good start.”
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Limit screen time to protect your child’s heart, American Heart Association says
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- August 8, 2018
“Screen time is associated with being overweight and obese which is associated with high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Once those risk factors, such as obesity, are in play in childhood, they tend to continue into adulthood.”
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Maternal mortality: An American crisis
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- August 7, 2018
“If you have a C-section in 2018, you have a 90 percent chance of having a C-section the second time. But the second time it’s a more complicated surgery. And the third time, it can be like operating on a melted box of crayons. And in those cases, women can bleed to death.”
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UCI awarded $9 million grant to determine the long-term effects of cannabis on adolescents
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- August 6, 2018
“Studies suggest that adolescents who are exposed to cannabis are at risk for development of various neuropsychiatric disorders later in life, but there is much research still needed.”
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3 in 5 babies not breastfed in the first hour of life
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- August 2, 2018
“Breastfeeding gives children the best possible start in life. We must urgently scale up support to mothers – be it from family members, health care workers, employers and governments, so they can give their children the start they deserve.”
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Cellphones in classrooms contribute to failing grades: Study
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- July 30, 2018
“I was always interested in using technology in the classroom before it existed, but when it became apparent that it was affecting the classroom, it raised the question (of) what effect it was having.”
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Chemicals in Food May Harm Children, Pediatricians’ Group Says
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- July 27, 2018
“The good news is there are safe and simple steps people can take right now to limit exposures, and they don’t have to break the bank.”
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Abuse, neglect & a system that failed
- Home & Family
- July 18, 2018
“In our system, once a child is adopted, we equate it with success & there is very little followup. We actually know very little about the well-being of how kids from foster care do after being adopted.” Vivek Sankaram. U. of Michigan law professor
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Social media, the scourge of adolescence
- Home & Family
- July 15, 2018
“I think it’s training our brains to be fine with being overstimulated. Like it is severely lowering our attention spans.”
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Love for a Mother Outshines All: Call Her with Gratitude
- Family & Kids, Home & Family
- May 16, 2018
The love for one’s mother is a unique dance of growth and occasional hurt feelings. Being the recipient of such thoughtfulness, such a beautiful display of daily affection in the every day and is often spurned by children who do not recognize the purity of a mother’s actions. But as we age and begin to
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Is your child’s use of electronics an addiction or a bad habit?
- Featured, Home & Family
- January 16, 2018
“Thomas just wouldn’t do anything other than play on his computer and phone. I’d lock digital devices in my safe, but he would outsmart me.”
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Parent Acts: Why is it so hard to let our kids fail?
- Home & Family
- July 19, 2016
No parent wants their child to ever fail or fall down. But can you unwittingly hurt your child in the long run by repeatedly being too quick to intervene? As a parent, Kelly Wallace, CNN’s Digital correspondent, admits to grappling with that question. Here is some expert advice that she has found particularly helpful.
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Stress is contagious in the classroom
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- June 27, 2016
That’s the finding from a University of British Columbia study recently published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
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The Skills That Make Kids More Likely to Grow Up to Be Successful
- Featured, Home & Family
- July 22, 2015
What can you do now to ensure that your children will one day succeed as adults? Could it be as simple as teaching them to be kind, cooperative and helpful to others?
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AAA: Distracted driving a huge factor in teen driver crashes
- Home & Family
- July 15, 2015
Texting while driving is downright dangerous. But that doesn’t stop countless adults and teens alike from doing it. Parents may want to keep this in mind the next time they’re tempted to reach for their phone while behind the wheel. Your children may very well follow your example with potentially deadly consequences.
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