- Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 16:18
- Celebrities
Extra worries, extra arrangements, but extra fun! Still thinking twins is something extraordinary? Not in Hollywood! Geniuspregnancy.com tells you about celebrity parents of twins.
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- Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 11:45
- News
Increased direct TV exposure and household TV use can damage a positive childhood development and interaction with parents. The research conducted by scientists from Tulane University is one of the few to look at the link between TV exposure and aggression in young children.
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- Monday, November 9, 2009, 5:28
- Health
Exhausted by sleepless nights, mothers often take their babies to sleep with them in bed, thinking this is a safe practice. The data, however, shows that 50 percent of babies who died from sudden death syndrome were in bed with their parents.
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- Friday, November 6, 2009, 8:57
- Diet & Nutrition
British scientists say that parents may keep their children out of troubles by allowing them to drink some alcohol at home. Teenagers who try to fetch alcohol by themselves are more likely to engage in violence-related situations or other forms of illegal behavior.
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- Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 13:25
- News
Parents who have babies should cut down on
watching TV because it's bad for the language development in their babies, recent study says. With the TV turned on, parents talk to their babies less, so babies get worse at acquiring speaking skills.
Researches studied how the TV influences the babies aged from two months to four years old and found that every extra hour of a TV turned on slashed the number of words the parents told to their babies by 500-1000.
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- Friday, August 7, 2009, 14:53
- News
Swedish economists have calculated how much parents spend on their children from the moment they are born until the graduation exam (Swedish students graduate at 19). According to their calculations, average parents spend 100 thousand Euro per child. If there are two children in the family, then expenses fall a little bit and average to 90 thousand Euros ($144 thousand).
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- Friday, July 24, 2009, 12:29
- Health
Mother-to-daughter and father-to-son links in a study of child obesity are discovered by medical scientists, BBC reports. Researchers say that genetics is unlikely to be playing a role in the issue. Instead, they insist on psychological factors. Scientists from Plymouth Medical School, U.S. have put forward this conclusion as a result of their study of 226 families, where it was discovered that obese mothers were 10 times more likely to have obese daughters, and for fathers and sons, there was a six-fold rise.
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