How Parents Can Help Kids Make Healthy Choices: Advice from Children (P04-006-19)

Can Parents Make Well - Informed School Choices ?

How parents can help children cope with procedures and pain.

S ometimes when a child is sick or hurt, it is necessary for physicians to do a procedure. The purpose of some procedures is to get more medical information; examples include doing a blood draw using a needle or collecting urine through a plastic tube called a catheter that goes into your child’s urethra. The purpose of other procedures is for a treatment, such as putting in stitches for a cut ...

Can Analogy Help Children Make Transitive Inference?

This paper is exploring whether analogy-making as an early developing ability could potentially help children to develop deductive reasoning ability and in particular, transitive inference. Two experiments are presented. In the first one transitive mapping is explored further to make sure children at the age of 4 can do the transitive mapping task even when all three objects are hidden and no p...

Label reading 101. Can reading labels help children make healthier food choices?

n a position paper of the American Dietetic Association, dietary guidance is given for healthy children aged 2 to 11 years. The paper states: " It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that children ages 2 to 11 years should achieve optimal physical and cognitive development , attain a healthy weight, enjoy food and reduce risk of chronic disease through appropriate eating habits...

How Can Parents Understand Their Children?

met sufficiently by the courses in home economics that are at present so much in vogue? Or has the work been accomplished by the mothers' clubs and social-center work that is being pushed by our ardent social workers? How can the art of understanding and awakening intellect and providing for its further development be taught? Many courses have been introduced, looking to the physical comfort of...