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...already a tough decision for any parent, but opting for child care may have just become an even weightier issue. Researchers at the University of Illinois and the Harvard School of Public Health report that toddlers who spend time in day care tend to gain more weight than those who are cared for by their parents at home...
...people other than their parents - in other words, relatives or professionals at a child-care facility. Half of those children were in full-time day care, 40% of them beginning at younger than three months of age. The researchers found that the babies who received day care gained, on average, 175 g (about 0.4 lb) more over nine months than babies being raised exclusively by their parents. In addition to being heavier, these infants also started eating solid foods earlier than babies under parental care. "We were surprised by the quantity of weight gain," says Kim, a kinesiologist at University...
Kagan’s success at poaching professors from other schools left the Law School's student newspaper guessing at other things she might be able to steal for Harvard's gain: a ferris wheel, the John Hancock building, and a T-Rex skeleton...
...idea, Cousteau says, is to give children the opportunity to "gain environmental knowledge and respect for nature, as well as an understanding of how to live more sustainably back home." The workshops at Cape Sounio - which start from $87 for a three-hour session - include inventive games and activities ranging from underwater photography safaris to playing with solar power: kids are shown how to use the sun to run machines, make paper and even cook Greek pizza...
...Unwed teenage mothers need all the support they can get, and they should be integrated with peers so they can stay in school despite the huge responsibility of raising a child. Another reason to be integrated? So that peers who judge them, as Kingsbury seems to, will perhaps gain some empathy and embrace the concept of community. Anna Moore, CHICO, CALIF...