Can Excess Weight in Toddlers Cause Brain Drain?

"A one-point shift in IQ may affect the number of students with disabilities, the number of gifted children, and eventually on a population level, it could affect economic productivity," said Li. She is a postdoctoral research associate in the Brown University department of epidemiology.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-excess-weight-toddlers-brain.html

Tiny Tots Get Schooled in STEM

"The school uses the Reggio-Emilia approach, an educational philosophy named after the city in Italy which has inspired schools around the world to consider children as competent, capable, and naturally curious. It frames the school's approach to children learning by placing adults alongside children as facilitators to their learning process. The teachers observe and document children's thoughts and explorations, and then they layer on learning by helping them to delve deeper into the things in which they are interested."

http://www.looptt.com/content/watch-tiny-tots-get-schooled-stem

How You Can Help Children of Divorce

"When parents divorce, it’s vital that they commit to an amicable relationship for the sake of their children. This kind of relationship is, typically, even more important for the relationship between dad and his children. That’s because dad is, of course, the parent most likely to leave the home."

https://www.fatherhood.org/fatherhood/how-you-can-help-children-of-divorce

The Best Booster Seats for Children

"Boosters are the best way to protect these 'big kids' in a car crash. It helps position the belt over the strong bony part of their body, rather than their internal organs," said Consumer Reports' Dr. Emily Thomas.

http://abc7news.com/consumer-reports-the-best-booster-seats-for-children/3509167/

Italian RTM-Volontari Nel Mondo Celebrates Conclusion of 3-year Education Project in Palestine

"The project’s mission was to increase the quality of early childhood education in West Bank through exchange experiences with preschool institutions of Reggio Emilia. The Reggio Emilia Approach to early childhood education is an educational philosophy, based on “the image of the child as an active human being, as possessing strong potentials for development and as a subject of rights who learns and grows in the relationships with others.”

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=780138

Make Junk Food Expensive and Children will go Hungry/The Guardian

"Since the proposals hit the news, the pushback has been fierce, with many people making a simple point: if you want to get people to eat better, don’t make bad food more expensive – make good food cheaper. But that seems so obvious a solution it’s worth asking why so many people would need to point it out. Why do we, as a society, approach public health from a punishment point of view rather than trying to increase accessibility?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/22/obesity-junk-food-children-jamie-oliver-nicola-sturgeon-punish-poor

Do Children Cause Global Warming? Project Syndicate

We have been here before. In the 1970s, fear of environmental degradation and societal collapse drove some well-intentioned people to remain childless. The scientists and opinion leaders comprising the Club of Rome famously (and erroneously) predicted humanity’s end, forecasting that the world would run out of aluminium, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc. They advocated stopping economic growth, cutting consumption, and making sure people had fewer children.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/children-global-warming-fear-by-bjorn-lomborg-2018-05