I sat on the park bench watching my niece as she guarded her 4 year old son who clambered like a monkey over the jungle gym. Happy shouts and laughter filled the air and I found myself transported back to the time when I first met my niece. Despite the fact that this beautiful young woman was a niece by […]
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“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” – Fran Lebowitz
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Russian orphanages are a scandal, said Jennifer Rankin. State institutions house nearly 400,000 children, a population larger than many cities. But less than one third of these children are actually orphans. Many “fall into the system when their parents, often fighting a losing battle with alcohol or drugs,” lose their parental rights. Even more of them—nearly half the total—have disabilities, […]
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Researchers have found that when there is only one parent in the home the children have a tendency to smoke or drink alcohol. The study examined 11,000 children and found that when they were under the age of 7 when the parent left, they were at risk before the teenage years. The children find it difficult to cope with the […]
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“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.” – Phyllis Diller
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“All children are artists. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
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A major new study shows more American children than ever are struggling with myopia, or near-sightedness. A problem pediatric ophthalmologist Dr. Phoebe Lenhart at the Emory Eye Center says they typically see in adults, but not kids. “Myopia or near-sightedness is a condition where you can see things clearly up close but you have trouble seeing at a distance,” says […]
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