Topic: Preschool Education
(Reuters) - If your preschoolers turn up their noses at carrots or celery, a small reward like a sticker for taking even a taste may help get them to eat previously shunned foods, a U.K. study said.Though it might seem obvious that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If your preschooler turns her nose up at vegetables, giving her a small reward for taking even a taste might help, a new study suggests.Researchers found that when parents gave their 3- and 4-year-olds a sticker each ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Eighteen nursery school children were killed when a coal truck slammed into their "drastically" overcrowded school van in northwest China on Thursday, local media reported, prompting an outcry about the country's deadly roads.The collision on a rural road in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids with depressed dads are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than those whose fathers don't have the blues, according to a new study of more than 20,000 families."We've known for a long time that ...
A daycare centre in the southern Swedish city of Malmoe said Wednesday it planned to test GPS devices for tracking children when they are out on excursions."We will test this system on 10 children for a week in October. We will have ...
To get the latest on community happenings in the Summerlin area, visit lasvegassun.com/summerlinA children's facility that combines the serious learning of preschool and the fun and games of birthday venues such as My Gym and Chuck E. Cheese's is opening in Tivoli ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Does your preschooler turn her nose up at broccoli, zucchini, and everything else green? Try hiding the veggies in her spaghetti, researchers suggest.A new study found that youngsters got more of their daily greens when researchers pureed ...
MUAR, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysian police stormed a preschool on Thursday to free 30 children and four teachers held hostage by a man armed with a hammer and a machete.Police commandos armed with assault rifles fired teargas into the school in a ...
Blessing Okpara normally looks after 11 children in her cramped two-bedroom Tel Aviv apartment, but even with just five toddlers charging around the place looks fit to burst.In this small, worn home Okpara runs a "pirate" nursery, one of dozens in Tel ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan mother is suing her 4-year-old daughter's preschool, calling it "one big playroom" that deprived the child of the edge needed to get into an elite elementary school.Caught up in New York City's "insanely competitive" nursery school ...