Oct 10, 2021
Medical X-Press – Patti Verbanas
According to the Pew Research Center, about 30 percent of Americans are almost constantly online, and health officials are concerned about the amount of time children and adults spend with technology. China recently banned children from playing online games for more than three hours a week, internet addiction centers have been opening in the United States and Facebook has come under fire for teenagers’ obsessive use of its Instagram app.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-addicted-technology.html
Oct 10, 2021
Moms – Ashley Wehrli
A new report is showing that more than one-third of children are sleeping less than what is recommended for their age group. Sleep is incredibly important for everyone, and lack of sleep can have a large impact on a person’s physical and mental health. Children need a lot of sleep because a lot of their growth and development happens when they are sleeping. A child who is not getting enough sleep can have a hard time focusing in class may get sick more often and their wellbeing is just generally not well. It should be a priority for all parents to make sure that their child is getting all the sleep they need.
Read More: https://www.moms.com/more-than-one-third-of-children-sleep-less-than-recommended/
Oct 9, 2021
Moms – Ashley Wehrli
A new survey is showing that 4 in 5 parents think that digital devices are making it harder to parent than ever. Motherhood and parenting were never promised to be easy, and a lot of mothers find out the hard way that being a mom was not exactly what they had pictured when they were either growing up or pregnant with their first baby. A lot of moms try and find ways to make parenting easier, but it just seems to be getting harder and harder. This means that we need to start looking at what specifically is making it harder to see if there is anything to be done about lifting the burden.
Read More: https://www.moms.com/most-parents-think-digital-devices-make-parenting-harder/
Oct 9, 2021
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the study is the first to investigate whether children with autism can recognize when one emotion is masking a different feeling that can only be identified from contextual cues, for example a crying man being happy rather than sad because he is at his daughter’s wedding.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-autistic-children-struggle-hidden-emotions.html
Oct 8, 2021
Moms – Jessica Tucker
Healthy eating reduces cardiovascular risks in overweight and obese kids, according to a new study. And while the news regarding this is not groundbreaking, it does show that when kids and their parents are given the tools with which to nutritionally navigate, they are healthier as a result.
Read More: https://www.moms.com/healthy-eating-reduces-cardiovascular-risks-in-overweight-kids/
