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Detecting Learning Disabilities
A learning disability is a problem that affects how a person receives and processes information. People with learning disabilities may have trouble with any of the following: Reading, Writing, Doing math, Understanding directions. Learning disabilities are common. Between 8% and 10% of children under age 18 in the U.S. may have some type of learning disability. Learning disabilities have nothing to do with how smart a person is. Rather, a person with a learning disability may just see, hear, or understand things differently.
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Child Psychologists Are Begging Parents to Never Turn a Blind Eye
To These 12 Behaviors
While it’s true that children’s behaviors can be ignored from time-to-time by their loved ones, there are a few things that parents and grandparents should never turn a blind eye to. 1. Hitting/Physical Aggression: If a child’s behavior is putting someone at risk of getting hurt, or injured, and it is a safety issue, this should never be ignored and needs to be addressed immediately. 2. Name-calling/Mean Language: Words can be incredibly painful to others.
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Nutrition for kids: Guidelines
For a healthy diet
Nutrition for kids is based on the same ideas as nutrition for adults. Everyone needs the same types of things, such as vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, protein and fat. These are called nutrients. Children need different amounts of specific nutrients at different ages. The best eating pattern for a child's growth and development considers the child's age, activity level and other characteristics. Check out these nutrition basics for kids, based on the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
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Understanding Anxiety in
Kids and Teens
Just like adults, kids can feel anxiety about a number of different things, from common activities and experiences (public speaking) to social situations or specific fears (a fear of heights). It’s important to recognize that sometimes anxiety can be helpful: When kids feel anxious about an upcoming test, game, or presentation, anxiety can help motivate them to study, practice, or prepare. Anxiety about getting to school on time motivates to set an alarm and wake up at the same time each morning.
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Five Great Reasons to
Cook with Your Kids
When it comes to raising an adventurous eater, it is not just about coaxing kids to eat their veggies. Bringing up a child who can enjoy a cantaloupe as much as a cupcake takes patience and persistence, but it does not have to feel like a chore. Kids may need to have frequent joyful experiences involving food to overcome the anxiety they may have around tasting the unfamiliar. Over time, cooking with your children can help build that confidence—and provide rich sensory experiences.
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Physically inactive children have higher rates of depression and anxiety, study finds
An analysis of data from the National Survey of Children’s Health has found that physically inactive children exhibit higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to their physically active peers, especially pronounced in children with autism and ADHD, who had significantly higher prevalence rates of these disorders than their healthy peers, regardless of physical activity levels, according to the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
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