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Confused About Early Childhood Development Milestones?
Confused About Early Childhood Development Milestones?
Early childhood development is the foundation to everyone’s life. Nevertheless, each child has their own personalities and ways about them as well as similarities such as meeting developmental milestones in a relatively similar time in their lives from talking to walking.
Doctors tell parents not to compare their child with other children according to their early childhood development. One child might start walking at nine months and one might be 14 months. Both could be healthy yet have their own time schedule. Often children are around a year old when they are walking or …
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has made it clear that television viewing by children under the age of two is not recommended. Tell that to parents who are the targets of marketers promoting DVDs and television programming claiming to transform babies into geniuses! However, AAP continues to assert its opinion that TV may adversely affect a child’s development during these critical early years. So, what’s better than so-called “genius” videos? That’s easy! There are plenty of activities for parents and their little ones that will help to enrich their baby’s mind, …
I confess right up front that the following information represents a totally informal, and unscientific survey. However, as of this past week I’ve finally finished surveying exactly 100 physical education teachers, some by the phone, some in person, and I asked the following six questions.
Well, just like many of you I have been dreading this day, October 29th, today.
Somewhere along my journey through life I lost my imagination. I don’t know if there’s some mystic lost and found box somewhere that you have to go and pick it up again after a certain age or if your mind locks it up after you get and job and experience the “real world”. Maybe it’s more simple than that, like it just silently creeps out of your ear while you are sleeping. In any case all I know is that mine is lost.
Although all parts of the human body need care and upkeep in order to work at their peak potential, teeth require a bit more attention than most. A person’s teeth experience a great deal of wear and tear throughout his life, and though they’re designed to be permanent and function with a minimal amount of problems, teeth that are improperly cared for can cause a whole host of difficulties.
Almost one out of five children become obese in their growing years. The percentage of children who has become overweight has doubled since the 70’s. No thanks to the food advertisements being shown in national television.
It’s not unusual for children to run away from home. In fact, they’ve been doing it for hundreds of years. I’ve done it myself – not once, but three times. Like many children who run away, I came back within a few hours the first time. As child abuse articles often discuss, running away is often impulsive and unplanned. Some children might even look for fun or adventure by running away with a friend, in some cases more than once.
Childhood obesity is among the biggest problems faced by American kids today, not only making children to look over sized but causing several other health problems. According to Dr Jonathan Mac Clements nearly 40% of all fourth grade kids have been determined to be clinically obese suggesting a major increase in the number of heart related patients and diabetes problems over the years.
Since 1975 cancer in has increased in American Children especially childhood leukemia and brain cancer. At the same time, approximately 80,000 chemicals have been produced in the U.S. to create commonly-used products. These include known carcinogens such as asbestos, formaldehyde, lead, cadmium, trichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride, with practically no government oversight.