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- December 15, 2010
At Friends School Haverford in Pennsylvania, teachers are using Chile peppers and chickens to teach students life lessons. Teachers are giving their students hands-on lessons in sustainability and the environment, and the kids seem to be learning and loving it. ABC Local, 11/3/2011
READ MOREIs your 5-year-old overweight? Kids who are obese in kindergarten are four times more likely to be obese later on in childhood. “The biggest risk of developing new obesity from ages 5 to 14 is really driven by kids entering kindergarten overweight. Those children who were born large or are overweight at age 5, something is happening very early in life which sets the pathway to obesity,” explains Dr. Venkat Narayan, lead author of a new study by Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
READ MOREA new study, released on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, is the first to check the safety of kids' packed lunches about an hour and a half before lunchtime. Although 45 percent of the packed lunches in the study included an ice pack, and 12 percent were kept in refrigerators, nearly all of the perishable
READ MOREDo you limit how much television your children can watch, but then let yourself watch as much as you want? “If the parents watch TV in their free time, the kids are being socialized to watch TV in their free time,” says senior research scientist Amy Bleakley, who led a recent study by the Annenberg
READ MOREAccording to new research, a child can directly influence the attitude and behavior of their parents towards the environment without them even knowing it. Science Daily, 2/13/2013
READ MOREDespite the ocean of worry brought on by superstorm Sandy, some children are able to look at the bright side. Some kids have reported a renewed appreciation for their parents, for example. Matthew Hill, 16, says, "Actually, it's changed me a lot. It makes me look at life differently — what I have, you know?" CBS News,
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