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• Ear infections and antibiotics

  
  News Moms Need — Authority: 127
  Bacteria have been around for more than 3 billion years and have plenty of practice in fighting antibiotics. That’s why the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians issued treatment guidelines for middle ear infections that include, in certain cases, delaying prescriptions for ...
  3 days ago

• Disturbing: Obesity Rate For 2 To 5 Yr. Olds Between 8.5% And 13.4%

  
  BASIL & SPICE--WEIGHT LOSS! — Authority: 107
  Carole Carson: National Coach for the AARP Fat to Fit Community Challenge, An Interview With Dr. Robert Murray, Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on School Health By Carole Carson Public Health Enemy Number One: Childhood Obesity? Dr. Robert Murray is not the kind of person given ...
  4 days ago

• All-Terrain Vehicle Injuries Pose Major Health Risk to Children

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 483
  The Injury Prevention Center at Phoenix Children’s Hospital Offers Safety TipsPHOENIX, AZ  – With fall temperatures and cool weather arriving in Phoenix, the Arizona Department of Health Services... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you ...
  1 week ago

• Are Your Kids Hooked on TV?

  
  Nourishing Relationships — Authority: 124
  The latest Nielsen figures indicate that children are watching more television than ever - those aged 2 to 5 are watching more than 32 hours a week while for those 6 to 11, it drops slightly, probably due to school hours, to more than 28 hours a week. Thats still, on the average, more than 4 hours a day. These ...
  1 week ago

• TV and toddlers

  
  News Moms Need — Authority: 127
  It may be tempting to put your infant or toddler in front of the television, especially to watch shows created just for children under age two. But the American Academy of Pediatrics says: Don’t do it! These early years are crucial in a child’s development. The Academy is concerned about the impact of television ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smart or harmful – Baby Einstein refunds

  
  PIC Current — Authority: 122
  Courtesy of Eugenia y Julian (via Flickr) The Disney Company is changing some of their labels and extending refunds on “Baby Einstein” videos for toddlers. While fairly popular with both parents and babies, the videos educational claims may be less than true. Should you get your money back? Child ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disney Offers “Baby Einstein” Refunds

  
  Disney Dreaming — Authority: 540
  Disney will be offering refunds to parents who have purchased “Baby Einstein” videos. If a parent believes that their child was not made smarter by the video they can contact Disney for a refund. The American Academy of Pediatrics threatened to send a class-action lawsuit Disney’s way for ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Studies on Appropriate Car Seat Use

  
  Babies Online The Blog — Authority: 424
  Booster Seats Are Safer The journal “Pediatrics” published the results of a study , conducted by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia’s Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, confirming previous reports that it’s safer to keep children aged ...
  2 weeks ago

• Post suitable for ages two and up

  
  inmedia Public Relations Inc. - High tech public relations — Authority: 117
  This past week, there’s been a lot of brouhaha in the media about Baby Einstein and the refund that Disney , the parent company of Baby Einstein, is offering. The New York Times called the refund offer “ a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect,” a damning admission and a triumphant ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exclusive: Anti-kid vid group ponders forcing name change for all Baby Einstein videos

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 721
  Filed under: Kids and Money , Consumer Complaints Call it the E = MC squareoff. Bolstered by its successful anti-screen media campaign that led Baby Einstein to offer a refund for its kid videos , leaders at a Boston-Based non-profit are weighing whether to fight on -- and demand that Walt Disney Company drop ...
  3 weeks ago

• Experts: It’s okay for MDs to ‘fire’ patients who decline vaccines

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  From ABC News:Medical experts at the annual American Academy of Pediatrics meeting said there are cases when it’s ethical and legal for pediatricians to ‘fire’ a patient who refuses vaccines.Experts said pediatricians struggle to cope with a growing number of parents who fear a link between autism and vaccines ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pediatrics call video game violence a threat to children

  
  The Tanooki — Authority: 515
  The American Academy of Pediatrics has concluded that media violence is a clear factor in aggression in children – it could lead to a teenager carrying a weapon! The correlation between kids spending time with violent video games and displaying violent or aggressive behavior such as bullying is apparently as high as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baby Einstein Refund Program Expanded by Disney

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  The Walt Disney Co. announced that it will expand its Baby Einstein refund program by offering cash refunds on any DVDs bought from June 5, 2004, to September 4, 2009. The company has been under scrutiny concerning the educational aspect of the Baby Einstein products.  Customers are given the option of exchanging ...
  3 weeks ago

• American College of Pediatricians: A Useful Prop for Desperate Anti-Gay Bigots in Maine and Everywhere

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  I just finished getting the kids down to sleep tonight and pulled out my local paper, the Herald Gazette of Knox County, and this letter to the editor popped right out at me: Is it good for children to be raised by two mothers or two fathers? Definitely not, according to the American College of Pediatricians. What ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baby Einstein Videos: Not a Ticket to Harvard

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 135
  We’ve taken a lot of heat for not embracing baby videos.  When the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with their recommendation against videos for kids under the age of 2– we were delighted (and quite frankly it made it possible for us to continue excluding these videos from our television segments ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does infant video dependence cause autism?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  New research has once again upped the ante on autism. A study published this October in the journal Pediatrics found that autism now occurs in more than one percent of children (1 in 100).  In 1980, 1 in 10,000 children was diagnosed with autism.  The autism rate has risen about 10 percent each year since. As to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baby Einstein DVD customers are offered refund by Disney

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  Disney is giving customers who purchased Baby Einstein DVDs their money back, in a victory claimed for parents by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, “who mistakenly thought baby videos were educational”. To all appeareances this seems to be an admission by Disney that they did not increase infant ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kids who suck their thumbs

  
  NEWS ANCHOR MOM: child health, child safety, toxic toys, autism, etc. for busy moms — Authority: 124
  FROM NBC: Kids who suck their thumbs or use a pacifier for more than three years may end up with speech problems. The new study is based on observations of 128 preschoolers in Chile. researchers there say those who used the paci or sucked their thumbs past their third birthday were three times more likely to ...
  3 weeks ago

• A voice for kids

  
  insider - UF College of Medicine News Resource - University of Florida — Authority: 421
  When a baby is born, new parents are bound to agonize over every question: How often should the baby dirty its diaper? What happens if the baby bleeds when the umbilical cord falls off? What is considered a fever in a baby? The list could go on. But while these common questions are important, they’re not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spanking: Kids Are Struck Dumb With Lower IQs

  
  Ethic Soup — Authority: 120
    The sound of being spanked is both "OUCH!" and "DUH!" Anyone who has been spanked knows that it hurts. But did you know that corporal punishment leaves a long-lasting mark -- lower IQ?  New research presented at the International Conference of Violence, Abuse and Trauma,  in San Diego, links being ...
  6 weeks ago

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