Health Tip: When Your Child Is Stressed
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(HealthDay News) -- Problems at school, home, or frustrations with friends can all lead to stress in children. Like adults, children need to learn healthy outlets for stress, and how to deal with their emotions.
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Divorce is stressful for parents and children alike. Although children's  emotional reactions usually depend on their age at the time of the divorce,  many children experience feelings of sadness, anger, and anxiety - and it's not  uncommon for these feelings to be expressed in their behavior.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Getting your child to eat enough nutritious foods is a tough assignment.
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'Green' treatments could provide cheap, healthy therapy for children, study says    HealthDayNews -- The great outdoors provides great benefits to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.    So says a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health...
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Trying to teach parents the skills to communicate with and soothe tantrum-prone children.
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MONDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Certain variations in a gene that helps regulate stress response offer protection against depression in adults who suffered abuse when they were children, a new study says.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- Family problems, poor neighborhoods and other key environmental factors can undermine the coping skills of adolescents -- even among kids with good grades or high self-esteem, according to a study by the Society for Research in Child Development.
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MONDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Parents can stop fretting when their child sets an extra plate for an invisible friend, or shares a seemingly two-way conversation with a stuffed animal.
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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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The stress of caring for a sick child can add 10 or more years to the biological age of a woman&#39;s cells, researchers have found.
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Even young children can paint a picture of their health and well-being, though it doesn't always match parents' perceptions, research shows.
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(HealthDayNews) -- If dry, itchy skin is making your child miserable, try these tips from the Mayo Clinic:   Shorten their showers and baths. A long, hot shower or bath dries and irritates skin. Your child should stay no more than 15 minutes in the bath or shower, and keep the water temperature lukewarm. Avoid scrubbing too hard or too long with a washcloth or sponge. Light sponging can be just as good as forceful scrubbing, and it's less drying. The same is true for toweling off -- pat your child dry instead of rubbing. After a bath or shower, apply a moisturizer from head to toe. ...
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Stressed-out pregnant women may carry smaller-than-average babies, a new study finds.
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(HealthDay News) -- When a child gets the flu, it usually doesn't require professional medical treatment, but the illness can make your child very uncomfortable.
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(HealthDay News) -- Young children often bite out of frustration, anger and emotions that they don&#39;t otherwise know how to express.
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Children in families facing chronic  stress such as conflict between parents or violence in the home  become sick more often than children under less stress,  according to a study published on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Parents' lifestyle choices may  help determine their children's blood pressure, even before  their kids are born, a new study suggests.