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...bulk of past research on the matter involved primary-school-age children, says Michel Boivin, a psychologist at Université Laval in Québec, Canada, and a co-author of the study; the new research tracks behavior in very young kids - as early as those in pre-preschool, when children first begin interacting with one another socially...
Those periodic interviews, Boivin said, allowed researchers to identify three "trajectories" of victimization risk that children tended to follow as they moved from preschool into kindergarten. Most kids (71%) fell into the low-trajectory camp; about a quarter fell into the moderate category. But "there was 4% - mostly boys - who are chronically, highly victimized," Boivin says...
...Academy of Pediatrics. What's more, instituting a technique such as reading to promote weight loss would be fairly easy. Already, the Reach Out and Read Program, a nationwide non-profit literacy effort begun by pediatricians at the Boston Medical Center in 1989, encourages reading by providing books to preschool children each time they visit the doctor's office. Why not piggyback messages about healthy lifestyle habits on this existing reading framework? "This study makes me wonder if we could do that with older kids as well," says Hassink. "We are already thinking at our hospital about mixing in positive...
...face several daily battles to keep junk food out of my 3-year-old daughter's mouth, and she's not the only one I'm battling. The prevailing attitude seems to be that children cannot go longer than half an hour without eating. Everywhere my daughter goes, from preschool to library story time to gymnastics class, she is bombarded with sweets, prepackaged snacks and "juice" boxes containing nothing but empty and unhealthy calories. When society makes it so difficult to limit unhealthy foods, it's no wonder that we are facing an obesity epidemic among children. Kimberly Muschong, Mason...
...junk food out of my 3-year-old daughter's mouth, and she's not the only one I'm battling. The prevailing attitude, at least in my Midwestern community, seems to be that children cannot go longer than half an hour without eating. Everywhere my daughter goes, from preschool to library story time to gymnastics class, she is bombarded with sweets, snacks and "juice" boxes containing nothing but empty calories. When society at large makes it so difficult to limit unhealthy foods, it's no wonder that we are facing an epidemic. Kimberly Muschong, MASON, MICH...