Study reinforces that kids watch a lot of TV

It's not called the electronic baby sitter for nothing.

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Day care next frontier in fighting kids' obesity

Grilled chicken replaced the hot dogs. Strawberries instead of cookies at snack time. No more fruit juice — water or low-fat milk only. This is the new menu at a Delaware day care center, part of a fledgling movement to take the fight against obesity to pudgy preschoolers.

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Tutoring tots? Kids prep for kindergarten

Today, some parents have begun signing up their 5-year-olds for summer classes or even tutoring to boost thei

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Car driven by mother plows into preschool, 5 hurt

A mother plowed her car into a bustling preschool Thursday, injuring five youngsters and setting off a frantic rescue effort for a toddler pinned underneath the vehicle.

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Game programming made easy

Who says making a video game is hard? . Even a 9-year-old can do it.

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ABCs plus playing nice equals better pre-K smarts

Should preschool be more about ABCs or learning to play with others? With the help of Twiggle the Turtle, scientists found out that youngsters do better if they do both.

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Parents fret as even toddlers love 'High School'

Talya Appelbaum recently had a "High School Musical" birthday party. She got special balloons and a slice of cake decorated with the spoiled Sharpay, her favorite character because "she's with Ryan."

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Easy Nondrug Help Aids ADHD Kids

For a year, a kitchen timer went everywhere 3-year-old Eddie Fitzgerald did — home, playground, day care.

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Spanish Dialogue Common in Kids' Programs

Each episode of "Dora the Explorer" starts with the animated heroine dashing from her family's hacienda, waving to her Mami and Papi and scooting off into the jungle.

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A preschool teacher in Dayton Ohio was charged with a misdemeanor assault after she is accused of punching and choking a 4-year-old boy at YMCA Grace Childcare, 1001 Harvard Blvd. The charge against Sherra Howard, 25, of Trotwood, was Nov. 19, in Dayton Municipal Court.

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Here's a dilemma for parents of 3- or 4-year-olds: When it comes to selecting a preschool, do you go for the one that calls itself an "academic" preschool or do you enroll your child in the fun place?

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A French court has fined a preschool teacher $1,450 for biting the cheek of an allegedly unruly 4-year-old during a bathroom break.

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You send your child to preschool for various reasons. You may need the day care, or you may want your child to become socialized or educated - but a new school in north Tampa is also teaching preschoolers and infants an ancient form of exercise.

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Parents are pulling their children out of a Lakeland daycare after the Department of Children and Families says it verified a teacher was using hot sauce to discipline children.

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A homeless man says he was in the right place at the right time to save the life of a little boy who wandered away from his preschool.

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A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a beating that killed an Ohio preschool boy.

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Phoebe, a five-year-old preschooler raised money for the San Francisco Food Bank.

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Because computer knowledge is vital in our society today, many parents believe that the earlier their children begin to use the computer, the better. By the preschool years, most children are spending time on computers at school and/or at home.

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Preschool enrollment is up and spending on state pre-K programs is up, too - but the economic downturn could spell trouble for the nation's youngest schoolchildren, says a report being released Wednesday.

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Protecting The Kids

My 4 yr old boy was molested at Preschool about a year ago. At the time the predator had worked as a daycare worker for 9 years, 6 at this particular facility. The daycare had security cameras, but images were not recorded. They just fed live into the director's office.

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African Americans are far more likely than whites to be poor, out of work or in jail, and are "hurting worse" in the floundering US economy, a report published Wednesday showed.

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According to the Sheriff's Office, the preschooler initially told investigators his older brother, 21, hid the drug in the book bag. The boy later said he found it on a table in his brother's room, the report said. -----------------

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A new food pyramid for preschoolers, aged 2-5, may help parents deal with picky eating problems.

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another florida pervert teacher.

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former preschool teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing 2 of his students, a 4 year old and 10 year old boy.

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Hundreds of parents and other activists rallied outside the New Jersey Statehouse yesterday to protest the state's requirement that children from 6 months to 5 years old who attend day care or preschool get the flu vaccine, along with a pneumococcal vaccine, by Dec. 31.

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First Day of School Anxieties

My kids started school this week. Okay, so it was just preschool and they only go for ½ a day two days a week, but for me it was still this big milestone in their lives.

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the report issued last week by the federal government's National Center for Health Statistics contained a jaw-dropper: the parents of nearly one of every five boys in the United States were concerned enough about what they saw as their sons' emotional or behavioral problems that  …

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Researchers observed 50 kids aged 1 to 3 at play in a room for an hour: half the time was television-free, and half the time the TV show "Jeopardy" was playing on a television in the room.

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Technolgy for Young Children

"Children today don't know how to play. They just want to sit at the computer all day." It is not unusual to hear statements like this from veteran preschool teachers and early care providers.

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McCain or Obama Who is Better for Education!

Preschool, shown by research to be the premier program for leveling the playing field between the at-risk and the on-level kids across the country, has been under attack because of its 'enormous cost', which is nothing compared to how much waste our politicians cause each year, n …

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Parents should not worry when their pre-schoolers talk to themselves; in fact, they should encourage it, says Adam Winsler, an associate professor of psychology at George Mason University.

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How important is preschool/ kindergarten?

I'm looking for a "good" kindergarten for my son to attend. But is there really a difference between a "good" and "bad" centre?

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