Pediatricians urge parents to never take eyes off children while they are even near the water

The Internet is exploding over a floating baby, but it turns out the adults calmly watching are doing everything right. No matter how old - or young - your children are, you need to watch them in the water - vigilantly.

The American Academy of Pediatrics could not be more forceful in its recommendations for water safety.

“The bottom line principle for all children is you must have your eyes on the child,” said Elie Ward, New York State spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

That said, the doctors’ group firmly believes children should be taught to swim. Yet there is no magic age when it is all supposed to come together. And the group does not sanction one method of instruction over another.

How to Choose the Right Health Insurance — and a Good Doctor

Every year, whether it be as an individual or as an employer, we must make a decision about health insurance — and along with that choice comes picking the group of doctors and hospitals that will deliver most of our care.

 

For some, this process is purely about affordability. But for others, it is also about coverage and providers. If you are among those with real options, there are certain considerations that should help guide your decision.

Let's start with where will you be able to be hospitalized for elective procedures. Although most people know at which hospitals they want to be cared for, not everyone is so lucky.

Growing up in Paramus, N.J., my parents taught me from a young age that if something ever happened to me, I should ask the ambulance driver to take me to Hospital A in the area and not B.

As a kid, I only knew what I heard;

Parental, Managing household and its financial needs

It is normal for financial experts to talk about money as if it is merely a matter of naira and kobo. While this may be true, when you are preparing a profit and loss statement for a business, it is definitely not the case when you are dealing with families, especially families with a baby on the way. Emotions come into play. This is why figuring out household finances can sometimes be such a knotty affair; there are so many issues to deal with than just money alone.

 

When you have a baby, your own childhood and the way you were raised will greatly influence how you act as a parent. Perhaps you were an only child. Because of this, you may want to have only one child yourself. Of course, the reverse may also be true and you may want to have a big family, so your children will have siblings you never had.

The rise of Father and Daughter Businesses

The chairman in question is her parent, Sri Ram, and together they run Supreme Creations, the UK's largest producer of reusable shopping bags made from natural fibres.

For 16 years the business has been making jute, canvas and cotton bags for everyone from UK supermarkets Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury's, to US sportswear giant Nike, and fashion retailer Top Shop.

Set up by Mr Ram, his daughter convinced him to let her join the business six years ago when she was 22.

He made her work her way up from the bottom at the firm's London head office.

When Ms Sriram joined the company it only made plain reusable bags, but her big idea was to introduce fashion designs. And as a result, sales rose sharply, and last year she was made chief executive.

Spare the rod, says research

Punishing pupils for bad behaviour with humiliation or by administering corporal punishment only aggravates disciplinary problems at schools, a new research paper has suggested. 

 

What was required at schools was an approach to discipline which considered the personal circumstances and needs of children, a senior social work lecturer at the University of the Free State, Roelf Reyneke, argued in his paper.

WE! Chris Attoh & Damilola Adegbite cover Blanck Digital Magazine’s 5th issue

Ghanaian actor Chris Attoh and his stunning Nigerian actress wife Damilola Adegbite, here again shows the world what their interesting marriage looks like as they get blooming  on the cover of Blanck Magazine’s 5th issue.

 

The couple recently covered the Glitz Africa Magazine relationship issue and gave the world a look into their blossoming union.

New York parents who oppose vaccines for kids may be required to seek proof they were warned by doctor

ALBANY — A Queens state senator is set to introduce a bill that would require parents who don't want to vaccinate their kids to prove they’ve been counseled by a physician.

“I believe in science, and the science is clear that vaccines are the right answer to help our children avoid disease,” said Democrat Michael Gianaris, the bill sponsor.

The legislation, which will be introduced Monday, would require parents who want to opt out to submit to their kid’s school an affidavit signed by a physician saying that they discussed the medical risks of skipping vaccinations.

“The idea is that education will help overcome the anecdotal gossip that is threatening the health of kids around the country now,” Gianaris said.

He added: “It’s no coincidence that measles and whooping cough are at their highest levels in decades at a time when parents opting out of vaccinating their kids is at its highest level in decades.”

The legislation is being carried in the Assembly by Aravella Simotas (D-Queens). The mother of a toddler, Simotas says her child is up to date on all vaccines.

Nigeria, others miss 2015 goal of primary schooling for all

Only half of countries have achieved a global target of getting all children into primary school by 2015, some 58 million youngsters are still getting no education at all, but more girls are going to school, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Just one third of countries have met a 2015 deadline for six key educational goals agreed by governments in 2000, the U.N. educational arm UNESCO said in a report. Niger, Chad, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ethiopia are among those which are way off target.

Three quarters of countries have also failed to reach the target of halving illiteracy, UNESCO research showed.