Category: child

Using Meditation in Pediatric Medicine

Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering, and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of people younger than 18 years old. Over-activity in this collection of brain regions, known as the default mode network, is thought to be involved in the generation of negative…


The Painted Desert (1931)

Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child, resulting in lifelong rivalry. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media:…


Child With Lighter May Have Started Deadly Alabama Fire

IRVINGTON, Ala.—Authorities believe a child playing with a cigarette lighter started a mobile home fire in south Alabama that killed the young boy and a sibling, the sheriff’s office investigating the fire said Monday. Investigators found the butane lighter next to a mattress that caught fire in the children’s bedroom, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office…


Oklahoma Pair Arrested in Child’s Death, Body Was Burned

SEMINOLE, Okla.—An Oklahoma man and a woman described as his girlfriend were arrested for the death of a young child whose burned body was found in central Oklahoma, authorities said. Police in Seminole, about 50 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, found the child’s burned body Wednesday after receiving a tip, the Oklahoma State Bureau of…


Child Allegedly Taken From Toronto Subway Station Found Safe, Police Say

Toronto police say they’ve found a man and a toddler he’s alleged to have taken from an east-end subway station. Investigators say no injuries have been reported. Police previously said a man had taken a stroller with a toddler in it around 5 p.m. at Victoria Park station. They said the pair had last been…


Group Warns of Online Child Luring Surge After Edmonton Teen’s Alleged Kidnapping

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says it is seeing an alarming increase in reports of children being lured online as an American man accused of kidnapping a teenage girl from Edmonton was set to appear in court Tuesday. The 13-year-old girl was missing more than a week before she was found in Oregon on…


Momma Bear Struggles With Cubs

As a single mom, raising quadruplets makes her a superhero! …


Girl Born With Heart Outside Her Chest Defies All Odds

She’s now a beautiful teenager, and literally a one-in-a-million! (Video courtesy of Dari Borun) …


Every Child Needs a Mrs. Patton: Teacher Helps Boy With Brain-Based Delays Excel Academically

Every child needs a Mrs. Patton in life. That’s what Tracy Ross, mother and novelist from Cincinnati, Ohio, thinks. Her son, Kamran, 17, was born with brain-based developmental delays. However, he had a Mrs. Patton—a loving, nurturing, and giving teacher—and it altered the course of Kamran’s life. Under the selfless care of Mrs. Patton, Kamran…


Raising a Special Needs Child: An Expert Offers Guidance

Parents of children with special needs face a number of challenges, so here’s some advice from an expert. “Raising children is an adventure for any parent, but the journey for parents of children with special needs often has a few more twists and turns,” said Dr. Thomas Challman, medical director of the Geisinger Autism & Developmental Medicine…