Category: children

Busting Summer Boredom

Ah, summer. It’s finally time for sunshine and relaxation. If you’re a parent, though, you know what’s coming. After the initial ice cream celebration and that first joyful swim, and likely just around the time you’ve poured yourself a cold glass of lemonade and are about to crack open the book you’ve been trying to…


Theories Emerge for Mysterious Liver Illnesses in Children

NEW YORK—Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn’t known to cause liver problems in otherwise healthy children. That virus was detected in the the blood of stricken children but—oddly—it has…


Better School Lunches Blunt U.S. Kids’ Weight Gain

America’s kids have a weight problem, but regulations that boosted the nutritional standards for school meals may have helped slowed down weight gain among low-income students, a new study finds. For decades, the National School Lunch Program has provided free or low-cost meals to U.S. schoolchildren. As of 2016, more than 30 million students nationwide were participating,…


Canada Reports Three New Mysterious Cases of Acute Severe Hepatitis in Children

Three new cases of acute severe hepatitis in children not caused by known hepatitis viruses have been reported, adding up to a total of 10 cases confirmed in the country as of May 20, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Hepatitis is a disease that leads to liver inflammation and is most commonly caused…


Could Omega-3 Fatty Acids Fight Acne?

As many as 50 million Americans deal with acne. The blemishes can be painful and, for some, embarrassing. Now, researchers may have found a new weapon to fight acne, one without harsh side effects. A study in Germany has pinpointed omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil, wild salmon, nuts and seeds — as a…


Homemade Baby Formula and Other Whole Foods for Baby (+Recipe)

Given the current shortage of commercial baby formula, I would like to share my experience making my own (spoiler alert: my child is thriving), as well as what I feed my infants what I would do if I was in a position of feeding a very young child without adequate breast milk or formula. I…


Young Girls Are Over-Prescribed Birth Control Pills

Some 14 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 are currently taking hormonal birth control pills in America, according to government data. That’s more than 10 million people, about the equivalent of the entire population of Portugal. According to a 2019 United Nations report, about 151 million women take the pill worldwide….


Kids, Soda, and Obesity

Soda addiction has long been a problem in our nation’s schools. Every day for years, many kids have lined up at vending machines to buy their 20-ounce bottles of sugar and carbonated water before they go off to study important subjects like history, math, and, yes, nutrition. Kids love soda, but they aren’t the only…


A Better Way to Discipline Kids? The Results Suggest ‘Yes’ (Part 2)

Can a relatively simple, no-cost, no-tech, no-pain method of discipline really remold student behavior? As we discussed last time, the answer so far seems to be a very promising “yes” in the case of what’s called “Collaborative & Proactive Solutions” (or CPS). The approach is the brainchild of Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., and is described…


Child Sacrifice, WEF/WHO Power Grab

Reprinted from Liberty Counsel FDA Approves Pfizer Booster COVID Shot for Children WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) and authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shot for children 5 through 11 years of age. The booster shot is 10 micrograms, which is the same dosage for this age group…