Although Diwali is a festival of beaming lights, mouth-watering sweets, lots of fun activities, and firecrackers, it is also a time when a little negligence on your part can cause mishappening. Fire injuries, burns, eye infections, skin allergies and breathing problems are certain issue that comes as a package with the celebrations. Amongst the festivities, it is really difficult to keep an eye on your kids all the time, hence, […]
Imagine yourself touring the snow clad mountains of the Himalayas along with an extremely friendly five hundred foot tall Yeti! This whacky yet interesting idea has been turned into reality by tech giant Google’s latest offering – Verne: the Himalayas. The app uses Google Earth’s view of the Himalayas and presents it in a child-friendly format. One of the best features of the app is the tour guide Verne. He […]
Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when you didn’t get one? Have you ever found it hard to deliver the words, I’m sorry? Such experiences show how much apologies matter. The importance placed on apologies is shared by many cultures. Diverse cultures even share a great deal in common when it comes to how apologies are communicated. When adults feel wronged, apologies have been shown […]
Tonsils are the lumps of tissue that are located at the back of the throat. When the tonsils get inflamed it can be a very troublesome condition for the children to bear this and this condition is called tonsillitis. When tonsils come in contact with any germs, they tend to swell. This leads to inflammation. This inflammatory condition known as tonsillitis can cause difficulties in swallowing, speaking, etc, when found […]
Meet Vedant Dhiren Thaker, a Grade 6 student of Shantinagar High School, who, unlike other children his age, spends a major part of his day thinking about ways in which he can provide free electricity to the country. In his quest, armed with his love for all things electronic, he has designed and developed a power source which has been made from scratch with a recycled laptop battery. Vedant is a […]
Who knew, parenting and bad math had anything in common? But, we mean every word, when we say: Blame your math-anxious parents for your bath math. If the very thought of a maths test makes you break out in a cold sweat, the attitude of your parents may be partly to blame as a new study has found that parent’s math-anxiety negatively affects kids. When math-anxious parents provide frequent help […]
Rio de Janerio: Pets have outnumbered children in Brazilian households, according to an official report released on Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), a media report said on Wednesday. There are 52.2 million pet dogs in Brazil, while the number of children aged 0 to 14 is 44.9 million, which indicates a margin of over 7 million numerically, reported Brazil’s G1 news website. Some 44.3 percent […]
New York: At least 3,600 children have been orphaned due to the Ebola outbreak in West African countries, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said. The Unicef said in a report Friday that the number covers those who have lost both their parents in the hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak that began in December last year has left almost 9,000 children with just a […]
Geneva: The year 2014 has been “devastating” for children, as millions of them were exposed to armed conflicts, Ebola outbreak and torture, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said Monday. According to the Unicef, as many as 15 million children are caught up in violent conflicts in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Ukraine, including those internally displaced or living as refugees. “Children […]
New Delhi: Around 75,000 children have gone missing in the last three years in the country and are still untraced, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Of the about 2.36 lakh children who went missing in the last three years, 1,61,800 have been traced, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar said during the Question Hour. “Unfortunately about 75,000 are still untraced,” he said. The […]
