Toddler Childcare
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Learning Junk Food in School: Advertising to Kids
About half of all middle schools and high schools in the US permit advertising of candy, fast-food restaurants, and/or sodas at school! This practice is most common in Ohio (nearly 70 percent of schoo…
Touchdowns, Take-downs, and Toddler Tussles
A contagious skin infection that was once thought of as primarily limited to hospitals, prisons, and nursing homes is now showing up in healthy children, according to the Centers for Disease Control a…
Day Care and Colds — Good News!
On average, kids in day care during the first three years of their lives get about twice as many colds as their peers during those years. But each time a child fights off a cold, she develops immunity…
When Are Kids Too Sick to Attend Daycare?
"I'm sorry, but your child can't come back to daycare until she starts antibiotics." Statements like this led to a study that was published in the February 2000 issue of Archives of Pediatric and Adol…
Knowing When a Child Should be Picked up from Day Care
As a parent, when you get a call saying that you need to leave work to pick up a sick child, you are put in a tough spot. You don't want to use your vacation to stay home with a miserable child (that'…