Children's Health

Every year 20 million kids register for youth hockey, football, baseball, soccer, and other competitive sports. So why do most kids quit sports by the time they turn 13?

By FamilyEducation Editorial Staff

Sometimes good kids can be bad sports. Here are the words you need to talk with your child about sportsmanship.

How can you keep your child grounded when he gets overly excited about his athletic performance, but still provide positive feedback?

A family therapist helps parents identify depression.

A mother seeks advice on how to help her honor student son, who refuses to lighten his academic load.

Ringworm is spread to others through direct contact with an infected person or animal.

Giving kids money and the okay to shoot people with guns is unwise.

Find out how long children should stay away from a child diagnosed with mono, and what other steps are important.

Find out about Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), a syndrome where children have hostile, negative, and defiant behaviors.

Efforts to encourage a child to play organized sports by signing him up will not help him develop a sense of autonomy.

My child loves to eat. Should he be on a diet?

To help a child achieve a healthy weight, creating healthy eating habits and increasing the level of physical activity are necessary. Exercise should become a routine part of the child's day, like brushing teeth.

Find out whether warts indicate a problem in your child's immune system.

Kids as young as four years of age can be clinically depressed.

A grandmother wants to know how she can persuade her ex-daughter-in-law to get her abused child the therapy that he needs.

If your child is on antibiotics, how long do you have to wait before they can return to school? For some infections, it's 24 hours, but that's not always the case.

Infection is the most common cause of pinkeye (also known as conjunctivitis), which is easily spread through direct contact with fingers contaminated by germs.

Parents need to keep some focus on their child's emotional health in their attempts to get him to lose weight.