SNOO is the first FDA-approved device that keeps babies sleeping on their backs Parents of infants will try just about anything to get their baby to sleep, but it’s crucial to prioritize safety above all else, including convenience. But when there’s a solution that’s convenient and promotes safe sleep, it’s sure to catch our eye—and that of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
Fatal overdoses involving fentanyl have surged in recent years in the US and new research shows that deaths among children have increased significantly, mirroring trends among adults. Fatal overdoses involving fentanyl have surged in recent years in the US and new research shows that deaths among children have increased significantly, mirroring trends among adults.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines encouraging pediatricians to offer treatments earlier and at a higher intensity to children struggling with obesity. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines encouraging pediatricians to offer treatments earlier and at a higher intensity to children struggling with obesity.
More than a year after Nasca killed himself at age 16, his account remains active. Scroll through his For You feed, and you see an endless stream of clips about unrequited love, hopelessness, pain and what many posts glorify as the ultimate escape: suicide. TikTok’s algorithm doesn’t know Chase Nasca is dead.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines encouraging pediatricians to offer treatments earlier and at a higher intensity to children struggling with obesity. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines encouraging pediatricians to offer treatments earlier and at a higher intensity to children struggling with obesity.
A new report confirms what many already know to be true: Women are bringing home the bacon and frying it up too. Even as their contributions to family incomes have grown in recent years, women in opposite-sex marriages are still doing more housework and caregiving than men, a report from the Pew Research Center has found.
An expert shares four tips for establishing boundaries and reducing conflict. When my parents dropped me off at college, they weren’t as sad as I wanted them to be. And once I graduated, they lobbed me out of the house like a javelin.
Breast milk storage guidelines can be confusing. We caught up with three breastfeeding experts to answer parents' most pressing questions about leaving breast milk out. Whether this is your first time nursing or your fourth, you probably have many questions. From "how should I store breast milk" to "is it safe for baby to finish milk from a previously consumed bottle," inquiries abound. But one of the most common questions new (and expectant) parents ask is "how long can breast milk stay out, i.e. is it safe for breast milk to be stored at room temperature?"
"Hostile" parenting and "consistent" parenting can impact kids' mental health. Parenting styles that included physical discipline and overcontrolling behavior, referred to as "hostile" parenting, were found to nearly double the risk for their children to develop mental health symptoms, according to a new study.
Sorry, that profile name is taken. It belongs to a newborn. Sophie Kratsas was only a few hours old when she received her first email: a “welcome to the world” message from her father, Nick Kratsas. He had created an email account for his newborn daughter while still standing in the delivery room. This was 2014, and Mr. Kratsas, 44, had already noticed a dearth of unclaimed email addresses with a person’s full name without numbers, special characters or other concessions.
Like everything else these days, the cost of a family vacation is rising. With spring break season upon us, here’s how to keep costs under control. In the seasonal surge to the skies and roads, spring break promises a recharge — and a financial pinch. That’s especially true this year, when flight prices are up 20 percent compared with last March and April, according to the travel booking app Hopper, and hotels in the United States are averaging $316 a night, up 64 percent in the same time frame.
Shou Chew, the C.E.O. of the video app, faced over five hours of questioning about China’s ties to the company, data privacy and the app’s effects on children. Members of a House panel united to emphasize their concerns. Lawmakers lambasted TikTok’s chief executive about the platform’s ties to China in a roughly five-hour hearing on Thursday, punctuating how the viral video app has become a central battleground as the United States and China tussle for political, technological and economic primacy.
"Evaluations of youths who make threats need to go beyond simply assessing the threat itself and should include identifying underlying psychiatric problems," says Deborah Weisbrot. Children who threaten violence at school often have psychiatric diagnoses, learning disorders, and educational and treatment needs, report researchers.
Plenty of research supports the strong connection between the quality of a person’s childhood and how they fare, mentally and physically, as an adult: Experiencing more adverse events as a kid directly correlates with worse later-in-life outcomes, and vice versa for positive events, with things like resilience and social support influencing that relationship. But the nature of how these childhood experiences can sway our behavior as adults is nuanced, according to family and relationship therapist Vienna Pharaon, LMFT. It isn’t just the folks who experienced overt trauma as kids who may carry inner-child wounds, or what Pharaon terms “origin wounds,” into adulthood. Rather, she says all of us have some version of these wounds, which shape our unique understanding of ourselves and our approach to the world. Plenty of research supports the strong connection between the quality of a person’s childhood and how they fare, mentally and physically, as an adult: Experiencing more…
Some white-collar training programs have become as selective as Ivy League universities. Last spring Dina Sosa Cruz sat with her parents and sister in the family’s living room and reviewed her options: a full academic ride to the University of the District of Columbia, or an apprenticeship in the insurance industry.
The pandemic took young people’s present. What will it do to their future? It began on February 27, 2020. That day Bothell High School in Washington — the state where the first confirmed US cases of the novel coronavirus had occurred — announced it would close down temporarily after a staffer’s relative became ill after traveling internationally, prompting fears about what we were coming to understand was Covid-19.
The biotech industry takes on infant nutrition. Not long ago, I suited up in a white coat and safety goggles and entered a quiet laboratory where an experiment at the frontiers of science and parenthood was underway. A young engineer with a tidy beard escorted me past rows of benches to a large freezer. He opened it to reveal an array of ice-caked steel drawers and, wearing blue Cryo-Gloves (reverse oven mitts, essentially), removed a small bottle from the chill, which measured minus eighty degrees Celsius. At the bottom of the bottle, two hundred and fifty milliliters of liquid had formed a shallow, colorless puck.
A culture of obsessive student achievement and long schoolwork hours can make kids depressed. Last week, Columbia University became the latest school to announce that it would no longer require SAT or ACT scores for undergraduate admissions. The school’s decision was “rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor,” the college said in a defense of its policy change.
A working mom opens her reporter’s notebook from a historic trip to a war zone that carries special meaning, and logistics
Research shows that a strong paternal connection helps young people to manage their emotions and deal with mental-health crises Until a few decades ago, American parents generally fell into specific gender roles, with fathers as providers and mothers as nurturers. Though many more mothers are also providers today, research suggests that fathers still lag behind as responsive caregivers. A soon-to-be published survey of more than 1,600 teenagers by the Harvard Education School’s Making Caring Common project found that almost twice as many 14-to-18-year-old boys and girls feel comfortable opening up to their mothers (72%) as to their fathers (39%) about anxiety, depression or other mental-health challenges. The gap suggests that fathers can become much more involved at home, offering the kind of emotional support that many children today so urgently need.
The next phase of research on screen use will focus on family dynamics This is my final column on kids’ screen time. At least for a while.
Rising teen anxiety is a national crisis. American teenagers—especially girls and kids who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning—are “engulfed” in historic rates of anxiety and sadness. And everybody seems to think they know why.
What a once-simple rite of childhood reveals about the divisions among us The boys had been hanging out all Saturday afternoon, and Cicely Thrasher was planning to pick up her 12-year-old son from his friend’s house at 7 p.m. But as evening approached, the kids decided they wanted a sleepover. The friend’s father texted Thrasher to say it was fine with him if her son wanted to spend the night.
At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way. Alex Gable spent recent weeks in the bleary-eyed haze of new parenthood. His son was born in November and Mr. Gable powered down his laptop, deleted Slack from his phone and focused on caring for his wife while making the most of the four precious hours a day that their baby was awake — there was tummy time and time spent ogling little drawings of snowflakes.
