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be awarded the children they gave up for adoption. This meant that judges would award bio parents the children even though the chi...
are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...
Interpersonal communication affects practically every aspect of our lives. This is certainly true in the educational arena. Inde...
This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...
not apply only to agencies and services that help the children directly, but also to businesses whose donations can better assure ...
the Internet with other on-line players. The single-player, individual experience has replaced the community. But todays children...
Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician (the first female physician in Italy) and a renowned educator. The pedagogy she de...
raised in an atmosphere of domestic violence. When they see a parent beaten by the spouse, they accept this as normal and may cont...
screen media, but that this learning is dependent on three interrelated factors, which are the: "attributes of the child; characte...
This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...
The incidence of children living in single-parent homes continues to increase and it is usually the mother raising the children. M...
a social ill that grows worse with each passing generation as children are exposed to cleverly marketed television commercials foc...
pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...
genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...
those who have a body mass index of below 35 m-2 tend to have similar activity patterns when the energy expenditure levels are cor...
factor in the onset of childhood obesity. Dennison, Erb, and Jenkins (2002) report that children spend a larger portion of their ...
of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...
took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...
balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...
low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...
country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...
of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...
a number of other illnesses (Huang et al, 2007). The nurse will be involved if these risks materialize and may also have...
activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...
respiratory conditions, such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea (Thorpe, et al, 2004). The long-term consequences of childhood ...
as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...
Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...
Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...
determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...