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‘Social media shorten our childhoods’

Actress Emma Watson says social media are taking innocence away from young people.

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Children are ‘fattist’ by four - study

They struggle to tie their shoelaces. But four-year-old children have already learnt to dislike fat people.

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Adoption crisis for 2 million children

Since 2008 there had been no real increase in adoptions in South Africa, Beeld reported.

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Scientists have discovered that children with the most severe kinds of obesity are more likely than other children to have one or more of four genetic variations in their DNA.

Genetic mutations linked to childhood obesity
April 17 2013 at 14:16

The rise in the number of overweight children in Britain may be as much to do with their genes as their diet.

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Referee Michael Oliver speaks with Liverpool's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, left, after a challenge on Tottenham Hotspur's Belgian midfielder Mousa Dembele. Footballers like Luis Suarez is those believed to have had an influence on young children.

‘Pressure to win makes kids cheat’
April 16 2013 at 12:30

Parents think children are influenced to cheat after seeing sportsmen and women bend the rules on television, a poll shows.

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Boys reserve an affection for their mothers that rarely seems to wane, and there's nothing sweeter than the ardent, unconditional adoration that a little boy has for his mom.

10 things I love about having sons
April 15 2013 at 14:16

Having a son feels as though the universe has singled you out for something very special, writes Heidi Scrimgeour.

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EL James' multimillion selling erotic trilogy placed No. 4 on the American Library Association's annual study of 'challenged books'.

Fifty Shades joins Underpants on bad book list
April 15 2013 at 12:58

Fifty Shades Of Grey has made the list of books most likely to be removed from school and library shelves in the US.

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Children's author Larne Neuland recently launched an activity guide which she has been promoting in Durban preschools. It is a practical guide to teaching emotional intelligence. Picture: Gcina Ndwalane

Positive thinking books for children
April 12 2013 at 14:03

Author Larne Neuland was in Durban recently to spread the word on emotional intelligence for kids.

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Nearly one in five suggested they were less than happy with both school and school work.

The girls who don’t like their looks
April 12 2013 at 12:04

Nearly a third of girls are unhappy with their appearance, official British figures show.

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The ability to save - or nor - tended to remain the same in early adulthood, the researchers found.

Have pocket money, won’t save
April 11 2013 at 14:14

The secret to turning your children into savers? Don't give them pocket money.

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File photo: Parents queue up at Bree primary school in Fordsburg as they try to register the children. Picture: Itumeleng English

Ruffled feathers over school admissions
April 9 2013 at 11:58

The admission process for Gauteng schools is starting early this year.

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It is 15 years since Andrew Wakefield published his now-discredited paper in The Lancet suggesting a link between autism and the MMR jab.

MMR scare that blighted a generation
April 9 2013 at 11:58

Natalie Haynes looks back on the MMR scare with some anger...

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The sole indication of diversity was a brown-skinned Barbie and a brunette  'possibly meant to be a Hispanic'.

Barbie party supplies questioned
April 5 2013 at 13:45

Why doesn’t Mattel make party supplies featuring black dolls, asks the mother of a five-year-old Barbie fan.

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