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The Health Benefits of Gardening for Kids
Want your kids to eat healthier, communicate better and get better test scores? Try gardening. Here’s how to build your own raised-bed edible garden.
How to Get Your Kid to Eat Healthier Foods
Strategies for weaning your picky eater off the kid’s menu.
Build Like a Girl
On Feb. 20, girls from two local schools teamed up at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science to build…
Matters of the Heart
According to reports, an estimated 3.5 percent of all kids and teens have hypertension. Here’s the lowdown on high blood pressure in kids.
The Anxiety Link
Next to the fridge in Hilda Ruiz’s kitchen, a calendar reminds her 12-year-old-son Daniel of upcoming appointments—swimming lessons for him…
The Best Defense
Looking to learn something new? Empowering as they are practical, self-defense classes help women learn to protect themselves and others…
Mind Your Child’s Mind
Overall brain health is about more than what kids eat. When they sleep, their activity level and how secure they feel are also key contributors to their overall well-being and brain health, experts say. So parents need to help their kids find the right balance of food, activity and sleep—and make sure kids feel secure—so those developing brains function better.
She’s Got Personality
She’s got her mommy’s eyes, her daddy’s nose and Aunt Dana’s smile. But how about that sass, that stubbornness or that incredible…
Lessons in Art
What dance, music, theater and more can do for your child’s development
Pack School Lunch Like a Pro
Resist giving in to pizza day at school and let these tricks and ideas from Dallas-Fort Worth pros inspire you.
Why Won’t My Child Sleep?
How to tackle 6 common sleep problems, according to the experts
Don’t Drink the Water
Until the Flint, Michigan, water crisis was exposed, where cost-cutting measures led to tainted drinking water that contained lead and other toxins,…
Superfoods To Go
It’s not easy being green — that is, chopping and blending produce every morning to make healthy smoothies. Fortunately, Daily…
Silent Sufferers
In the short term, having a parent who is addicted to drugs or alcohol can make a child lose his sense of self. He may be embarrassed to bring friends home. Long term, children with parents who suffer from addiction have an increased incidence of academic problems, mental illness, criminal behavior and early use — and abuse — of the same substances that bind and restrict their parents.
Keeping Kids Safe From the Unsuspecting Poisons in Your Home
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are over 300 children, nearly half under the age of 6, treated in emergency rooms each day as a result of poisoning injuries, typically from ingestion.
Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves
7 Ways for parents to successfully support their child’s mental growth
Massage for Two
Pregnancy takes a toll on the entire body. It does a number on your posture, compresses your lower back, weakens…
Family-Friendly Bike Trails in Dallas-Fort Worth
A family bike ride is a good excuse for vitamin D and some uninterrupted time together.
How to Raise Kind, Empathetic Kids
Undoubtedly, we want to raise kind, thoughtful, compassionate kids, right? But can kindness be taught?