Home & Family

Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
- Home & Family
- March 21, 2025
“These are kids who spent most of their formative years – kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, when you’re supposed to be learning social skills – not learning them. They don’t have those social skills,” Wendy Gonzalez, an elementary school teacher in Richmond, CA. said that as a result of remote learning during the pandemic, many of her students didn’t “know how to talk to each other.”
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Secret Santa gives out thousands of dollars to North Carolina residents devastated by Hurricane Helene
- Home & Family
- December 17, 2024
“I think when people go through tragedy, they can lose their house — all their belongings. But what they can’t lose is hope. And maybe we can give a little hope.”
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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’
- Home & Family
- November 18, 2024
“I can’t underscore just how powerful it is to have a few moments of authentic interaction with somebody where you can hear their voice and see their face. There is tremendous benefit that comes to each of us from being able to show up for each other.” Dr. Murphy has even previously cited loneliness as an epidemic in our society.
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Baby Walkers Have Caused Injuries and Deaths—So Why Are They Banned in Canada But Not in the U.S.?
- Consumer Alerts, Featured, Home & Family
- October 15, 2024
Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) favors a ban on the manufacture and sale of sit-in baby walkers—maintaining they don’t help, but hurt infants learning to walk?
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Nearly two-thirds of supermarket baby foods are unhealthy, study finds
- Home & Family
- August 23, 2024
Don’t count on the baby food aisle at your local supermarket to provide healthy nutritious foods for your child. That’s the takeaway of a new study.
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No TikTok? No problem. Here’s why you shouldn’t rush to buy your child a phone.
- Home & Family
- May 24, 2024
Carli Pierson writing in USA Today with some thoughtful advice to parents: “Phones and kids should be an ongoing conversation in our homes. We should be talking about the dangers of addiction. We need to teach them that obsessing over other people’s lives, or comparing themselves with another person they may or may not know,
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Inactivity and screen time among children linked to heart damage by young adulthood
- Home & Family
- September 5, 2023
Study Finds: “Allowing children to consistently watch TV for extended periods can lead to heart-related issues years later, a new study warns. Researchers discovered that being inactive from childhood through young adulthood displays a link to heart damage, independent of factors like weight and blood pressure.”
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Screen-time warning: Toddlers given tablets, phones to play with can suffer lasting brain damage
- Featured, Home & Family
- September 5, 2023
“Sitting toddlers down in front of a screen all day can do lasting damage to their brains, a new study warns. Scientists in Singapore add that the harm to screen-watching infants persists into late childhood, even beyond the age of eight.
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Is the baby product recall process failing parents? Some experts say yes
- Home & Family
- September 5, 2023
“Every parent wants their baby to be safe, but once the market is flooded with an unsafe product, it’s hard to bring it back. They’re in thrift stores. They’re in daycares. They’re being handed down from sister to brother. They’re everywhere. The impetus should not be on brand-new parents. The impetus should be on the company to make sure that the product is safe in the first place.”
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Cannabis use in adolescent years may create reproductive complications in women, according to new study
- Health & Healing, Home & Family
- September 5, 2023
“In a new study, University of California, Irvine researchers found that exposure to the compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, a component of cannabis) at a young age could lead to depleted ovarian follicles and matured eggs in adulthood by nearly 50 percent.”
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New Pfizer data kills the case for universal child Covid vaccines
- Health & Healing, Home & Family
- March 16, 2022
For the younger kids, it dropped from 65% in the first two weeks to negative efficacy: -41% a month later. In other words, the vaccinated young kids were actually more likely to be infected than unvaccinated kids a month and a half after vaccination.
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What Every Parent Should Know Before Introducing Their Young Child to Technology
- Featured, Home & Family
- April 21, 2021
You might want to think twice before handing your toddler your smartphone. Check out our Good for You Conversation with Dr. Gail Saltz on what you need to know about children, technology and how it impacts their development.
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A Reason to Think Twice About Your Child’s ADHD Diagnosis
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- December 28, 2018
“Something is fundamentally wrong with the way ADHD is diagnosed. There’s a whole list of things that have nothing to do with the chemistry of the brain that increases your risk of being diagnosed with ADHD.” Dr. Martin Whitely, researcher & 1st author of a new study
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For Halloween, There’s Nothing Scarier Than a Fickle Toddler
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- October 17, 2018
“I’m Batman.” One week later. “No, Spiderman.”
For parents, yearly challenge is buying right Halloween Costume.
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Hilary Swank’s perspective on life, love changed after caring for ailing father
- Headlines & Highlights, Home & Family
- October 16, 2018
“It’s almost a great way to weed out people. ‘Wait, you live with your dad.’ The reaction to that helps you move through things faster.”
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