Children

Children more likely to use fruit tuck shops when schools ban unhealthy snacks (EurekAlert!)

13 May 2008

Children who attend schools that run fruit tuck shops are much more likely to eat more fruit if they and their friends are also banned from bringing unhealthy snacks on to the school premises, according to research published online ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Children better prepared for school if their parents read aloud to them (EurekAlert!)

13 May 2008

Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a review published online ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Woman who saved 2,500 children from Holocaust dies (USA Today)

13 May 2008

Irena Sendler credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets died Monday, her family said. She was 98.