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Study after study has confirmed what parents across the country long suspected: the coronavirus pandemic — not just the disease itself, but the lockdowns and restrictions that governments enforced to combat it — has had a devastating impact on children’s physical and mental health. “Now we’re seeing the fallout,” pediatrician Dr. Nina L.…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A group of children from the Crestwood neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, are helping other children they’ll probably never meet with a holiday tradition of building gingerbread houses. Organizers of the annual Holidays in Crestwood event will auction the kids’ houses along with houses done by…
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When it comes to kids being healthy, parents want the best for them. If they notice that their children are putting on weight, the instinct is to help them get the extra weight off to save them from ridicule and from any health problems that come from being overweight or…
North Carolina contracts with several psychiatric residential treatment facilities to take in kids, many in foster care, who have severe mental health and behavioral problems. These facilities are supposed to provide treatment. Often, kids leave with more trauma because of the physical and sexual abuse they receive, according to an…
Parents know that winter is the season of sickness. Your kid will have approximately infinite colds. You, too, will have approximately infinite colds. Last winter, COVID precautions kept sickness at bay. But this year, school is in session, day-care colds are spreading fast, and the only cohort of people in…
Cases of COVID-19 among children are increasing far faster than all other age groups in Maine, creating concerns among pediatricians that children are spreading the virus to older and more at-risk residents while facing risks to their own health, as well. Over the last month, Maine’s overall seven-day case average…