Prepare children for new rules at school
Parents can help children understand how to stay healthy at school amid the COVID-19 pandemic as they prepare for the start of the academic year.
Surgeon General: Youth vaping a public health threat
The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation’s youth.
Kids spend summer playing outside, reading at Sim Scott Park Community Center
“Kids these days.”
It’s a familiar refrain from adults that children today spend too much time playing video games or connected to tablets and iPhones and not enough time reading, playing board games or exercising.
Kids cook: Culinary campers prove you’re never too young to learn
Rapheal Skinner of Macon may be only 10 years old, but he thinks he has a pretty good idea of what he’d like to do later in life.
Report: Nationwide, too many foster kids in group homes
A national report published Tuesday finds that 57,000 of the 400,000 American children in the child welfare system live in group homes.
Dad acquitted in slaying of driver who killed sons
A southeast Texas man says that despite his acquittal Wednesday for the shooting death of the drunken driver who caused a crash that killed his two sons, there are no winners.
Prosecutor: Killing of drunk driver an ‘execution’
A drunk driver did not deserve “execution” by a Texas father accused of taking the law into his own hands in a fit of rage over the killing of his two sons in a wreck, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday.
Poor teens’ health may benefit from top schools
Disadvantaged teens may get more than an academic boost by attending top-notch high schools — their health may also benefit, a study suggests.
Kids learn stroke signs in class through imitation
Andrea Esteban tried to smile with half her face, crossing her eyes in the process, and her third-grade classmates giggled. Matthew Velez struggled to speak, “Luh, luh, uh, gronk,” and the kids erupted in laughter.
Mom accused of driving into surf goes before judge
A pregnant South Carolina woman pointed to the ocean, locked the doors and rolled up the windows, telling her three children she was “trying to take them to a better place” as she drove her minivan into the surf, authorities said.
Police: Children in car while mom smokes pot
Baton Rouge police have arrested a 30-year-old Mississippi woman after they found her smoking marijuana in the car with her two young children, then leaving them in the car while she went shopping in Cortana Mall.
Government: Cut out school junk food ads
It’s not just about what America’s kids are getting in the lunch line.
The Obama administration is moving to phase out junk food advertising on football scoreboards and elsewhere on school grounds — part of a broad effort to combat child obesity and create what Michelle Obama calls “a new norm” for today’s schoolchildren and future generations.
Study: Kids’ obesity risk starts before school age
Those efforts to fight obesity in schools? Think younger. A new study finds that much of a child’s “weight fate” is set by age 5, and that nearly half of kids who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.
Prosecutors join forces to eye Monster energy drinks
The San Francisco city attorney and New York state attorney general have joined forces to investigate whether Monster Beverage Corp. is marketing its highly caffeinated drinks to children.
Tablets a hit with kids, but experts worry
Tablet computers are so easy to use that even a 3-year-old can master them.
And that has some pediatricians and other health experts worried.
Art contest winners, Santa to serve as parade marshals
Six local boys and girls will be the junior marshals in Columbus’ annual Christmas parade on Dec. 14.
The junior marshals were selected based on their entries in a holiday art contest sponsored by Main Street Columbus.
Study: Kids less fit than their parents were
DALLAS — Today’s kids can’t keep up with their parents. An analysis of studies on millions of children around the world finds they don’t run
‘Good guys’: Good Sam members give police officers another tool for the job
Rufus Beason eats breakfast almost every morning at Hardee’s in North Columbus with a group of other retired men. One particular morning, Beason saw Columbus Police Department Patrol Officer Canyon Boykin come into the restaurant. He has known Boykin for years; the policeman is a longtime friend of Beason’s grandson.
Docs: Limit kids’ texts, tweets, online
CHICAGO — Doctors 2 parents: Limit kids’ tweeting, texting & keep smartphones, laptops out of bedrooms. #goodluckwiththat. The recommendations are bound to prompt eye-rolling and
It all starts with that first book: One Columbus group is on a mission to make First Book a household name in the battle against illiteracy
A troop of zany aliens is headed to Earth, but not to take over the planet, oh no. They’re just out to steal underwear — from woolly long johns to pink frillies. And what do you call a grandpa who drags his grandson to a monster truck show in the middle of a tornado? Awesome, that’s what.