Children's Health News & Features
- Toxic Turf
Schools are spraying herbicides and pesticides on their grounds to control pests from yellow jackets to ants. But who's paying attention to the harmful effects these chemicals have on the nation's schoolchildren?
- Contagious Daycare?
More parents are leaving their children in day care than ever before: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 65% of women with children under the age of six were part of the labor force in 1998, compared with only 44% in 1975.
- Children and Illness
As a parent, it helps to know what your child is thinking and feeling when he or she becomes ill so that you can help teach him or her about being sick... and, of course, about staying well.