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Raising a Green Child

The first step to going GREEN is to have your child experience the great outdoors and appreciate the environment. Outdoor play is becoming increasingly rare among children both in the U.S., even in rural areas. Children are intimately familiar with complex virtual worlds and all their characters, yet no longer learn the names of the creatures that inhabit their back yards. This has far-reaching implications for emotional and physical development and for family life.
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Dropping off your wide-eyed 18-year-old on campus for the first time? Here's what college health officials say students and their parents need to keep in mind for a healthy school year.


Scientists have long known about the link between severely premature birth and cerebral palsy, a condition that limits mobility and movement.  But a new study shows that children born just two or three weeks before term also have a higher risk of the condition.


The latest snapshot of how women give birth in the United States is sobering. Almost a third of women giving birth for the first time have C-sections. In the late '90s, about 1 in 5 of all deliveries were by cesarean.


A new study in the journal Pediatrics shows a dramatic increase in the number of sports-related concussions for child athletes. NPR's Melissa Block talks to Dr. Lisa Bakhos, the lead author of the study.
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For Parents of Toddlers: Toddlers, as a group, give you many feelings of uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to parenting. Spending most of the time with your toddler doesn't guarantee a good child-parent relationship, anymore than spending many hours apart if you are a parent that works full-time outside the home. When you are with your toddler just make the most of the time you spend with him instead of worrying about how much time you are spending with him.

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