Experts say plain water is better than sports drinks for your young
athlete. Most children don't exercise hard enough to need a sports drink
with extra salt and sugar that can put them at risk for weight gain and
tooth decay. Some drinks also contain caffeine and other stimulants
that aren’t good for kids. Source Link
Is
your toddler losing sleep over that smartphone or tablet you let them
use? Researchers found that for kids up to 3 years old the more they
used touch screens during the day, the longer it took them to fall
asleep and the less sleep they got. Every hour of touch-screen use was
associated with about 15 minutes less total sleep. Source Link
Using
food as a tool to keep kids calm can backfire in the long run. It’s
called “emotional feeding” and a new study found that children who are
offered junk food, desserts or other sweets to stop those tears can
become overeaters who might also deal with bulimia and binge-eating
later in life. Source Link
