Sep 28, 2019
Moms – Julian Jamie Alessandroni
Going from one to two is incredibly challenging. Between managing meal times to differing sleep schedules, there’s a lot that goes into parenting more than one small child. Whether you work full-time outside of the home, from the home, or are a stay-at-home-parent, you’re likely to experience the often occurrence of two little people arguing, taking toys away from one another or simply disagreeing on God knows what.
https://www.moms.com/children-play-well-together-tips-tricks/
Sep 27, 2019
Ag Net – Cathy Isom
A couple of 4 x 4 beds allow your kids to have a select space to garden on their own, and the small size is perfect for them. Consider planting some of these kid-friendly veggies to introduce the youngster in your life to growing their very own food. The traditional carrot variety, Danvers, is rich in antioxidants and kids enjoy pulling them out of the dirt during harvest season. The purple variety called Purple Dragon is also fun to grow because it’s such a fun color. Kids will love to grow grape and cherry tomatoes, too. Cucumbers is another fun one. Even if you’re kids don’t like eating them, they may enjoy pickles!
http://agnetwest.com/raised-bed-gardening-kid-friendly-veggies/
Sep 27, 2019
RTE – Claire Byrne
The sky is dark, it’s bucketing down, a wind blows sideways, forcing the rain drops into your eyes and down your face. You’re collecting the children from school and they’re tired, hungry and soaked through. The priorities for the rest of the afternoon are food, homework and a bit of downtime. But what about the vigorous physical activity? Have you scheduled in the 60 minutes of exercise at a minimum, that every child needs?
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0927/1078683-cbyrne-physical-activity/
Sep 26, 2019
Treehugger – Katherine Martinko
Feeding kids can be a tricky business at the best of times, but what if that kid is also an athlete? Their body is performing physical feats in addition to growing, and good nutrition is a crucial component of that. The problem is, there tends to be a lack of solid nutritional research when it comes to kids. Brian Timmons, research director of the Child Health and Exercise Medicine Program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, told Outside Online that this is partly because kids grow so fast (they outgrow their test periods) and partly because it’s ethically questionable to use them as test subjects if their eating habits are poor.
https://www.treehugger.com/health/advice-feeding-athletic-child.html
Sep 26, 2019
Reuters – Lisa Rapaport
When young people with asthma have anxiety, depression or both, they’re more likely to visit the emergency room than if they didn’t have these mood disorders, a new study suggests. Compared to young people with asthma but without either mood disorder, those with anxiety were 22% more likely to visit the emergency room for an asthma attack, and those with depression were 43% more likely to go to the ER for asthma flares. And when kids had both anxiety and depression, they were 80% more likely to visit the ER for asthma.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-asthma/anxiety-depression-tied-to-more-er-visits-with-childhood-asthma-idUSKBN1WA2V6
