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Introducing the Candy Diet!
Feeling guilty about the amount of candy you allow your children to eat? Not anymore. If anything, you aren’t feeding them enough! Or, at least that’s what the research seems to suggest …. Indulging...
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Law Requiring Schools to Weigh Students Must Be Repealed
You have got to be kidding me! How can so-called intelligent adults pass a law so downright cruel? Sometimes I think adults take advantage of the resilience of children. They think they can impose...
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Healthy Eating May Help ADHD Kids: Don’t Tell the Doctors
I find the ADHD trends highly frustrating. I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind so it’s not for me to speculate whether or not ADHD exists. What bothers me, is the rapid increases in...
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6 Strategies for Promoting Healthy Food to Kids
It is very difficult task to ensure that your child is eating the right foods and is not overdosing on unhealthy, preservative ridden rubbish. It can make me feel quite despondent when my daughter’s...
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ADHD Diagnosis a “Convenient Out For Lazy Teachers”: Dunham
I commend Deborah Dunham for her courageous piece on the rising rates of ADD and ADHD diagnosis. Ms, Durham refuses to pull punches, raising a view I have been quite vocal about – the dubious role of...
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Kids Deserve Some Credit for their Dietry Choices
There is a misnomer that children today eat worse today than than ever before. This is not my experience. For starters, in my day it was unheard of for children to be drinking water of their own...
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Getting Kids to Eat Healthy Food
Amber Dusick uses cartoon illustrations to provide us with a strategy that uses reverse psychology to get kids to eat healthy foods. Click on the link to read my post on A Long School Day With No Time...
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Exercising Wont Help Overweight Children: Study
A recent study suggests that we forget about getting overweight children to engage in physical activity and instead focus on healthier eating. Eating less, not forcing children to do more exercise is...
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10 Tips for Promoting Kids’ Healthy Eating
Courtesy of livescience.com: Don’t Ban Junk Food Outright Once kids get their first taste of crunchy, sweet or salty foods, it’s hard to get them unhooked, according to pediatric psychologist Eileen...
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6 Tips for Kids Who Worry Too Much
Courtesy of psychologist Daniel B. Peters, Ph.D.: 1. Make a worry list. Have your child make a list of all his or her worries and fears, both small and large. Just the act of recognizing and...
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Invaluable Rules for Getting Kids to Heat Healthy Food
Courtesy of Charity Curley Mathews: 1. Everyone (over the age of 2) eats the same meal. No special requests, no substitutes for anyone who has all of her teeth. I do try to be fair (and stack the...
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Is “Bubble Wrapping” Your Child Really Worthwhile?
We all do it. Too afraid to risk a serious injury to your precious child we say, “Steer clear of that” or “Get off that ledge”. Nobody wants to see their child break a bone or scream in pain. As a...
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Tips to Get Kids to Eat More Fruit
A well compiled list on a very real challenge courtesy of The Times: 1. Serve children the fruits they like, even if it is at the expense of variety. There is no reason why kids who love...
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