Parents unworried by 'couch kids'
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Most parents do not care whether their child gets enough exercise despite soaring childhood obesity rates, a survey shows.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - "Boomerang kids" who treat the family home like a free hotel are driving their parents to distraction, a leading British charity has warned.
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Parents who keep a clean house may unwittingly be developing asthma in their children, research suggests.
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Mothers cradle children in their arms. Fathers smile softly at the helpless bodies they hold. Other parents are bent over from the weight of their teenage kids whose legs fall limp, almost touching the ground. In the absence of basic medical equipment, these parents do this every day.
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NEW YORK  - New research shows that kids  really do tend to follow in their parents' footsteps, at least  in terms of how they choose to spend their free time.
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Letters Readers drive stake through parents' group
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Parents of hyperactive children say drugs often fail to damp down symptoms at crucial times of day.
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Working up a sweat playing video games  on Nintendo's interactive Wii console is no replacement for  real exercise but at least it gets overweight children off the  couch, according to British researchers.
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Absent parents refusing to support their children could be 'named and shamed' on a UK government website.
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Many parents of children  classified as overweight or even extremely overweight do not  perceive their child as being excessively heavy, with some  wrongly believing that their child is "about the right weight,"  new research suggests.
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Welsh parents fall into these three categories with half of mothers described as "unperturbed" because they take little or no interest in what their children eat for lunch, figures out today show.
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For âcloset co-sleepers,â revealing the truth isnât worth the criticism.
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Parents who supply alcohol for their teenagers' parties may be encouraging their children to binge drink when no adult is watching, a new study suggests.
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Most U.S. parents said their  children had encountered "issues" like bad language, sex or  advertising online over the past year, but they are not  stopping their kids' Internet use, according to a new study.
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TORONTO (CP) - When firmly spoken words fail to prevent junior from throwing CDs across the room at his younger sister, many parents resort to physical punishment or yelling.
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One in 10 parents struggle to understand the bedtime stories they read to their children.
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TORONTO, Dec 7 (Reuters Life!) - A new generation of  technologically savvy parents are turning gaming into a family  event, according to a new survey, but critics pushing for  greater monitoring of video game content remain concerned.