The Center for Science in the Public Interest

the Center for Science in the Public Interest

In an article reported by Associated Press, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban the use of eight artificial colors in food because the additives may cause hyperactivity and behavior problems in some children. These colors include Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Orange B, Red 3, and Yellow 6.

This consumer advocacy group is not the only one making these claims. Feingold Association, another organization dedicated to helping children with behavior problems, also suggests that artificial dyes are connected to hyperactivity.

The center’s executive director, Michael F. Jacobson indicates the colors often mask the absence of real food and attempt to appeal to children through color. Dyes are often added to cereals, candies, sodas, and many snack foods.

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Helping children to become wise as well as understanding

Helping children to become wise as well as understanding

Electronic access to online media is constantly changing. New technologies bring unique and unprecedented danger and risks to children. The Holy Bible states “Wisdom is for a protection the same as money is for a protection (Ecclesiastes 7:12) – “You can get anything by either wisdom or money, but being wise has many advantages.” Helping children to become wise as well as understanding how to avoid the dangers of surfing online is imperative.

The Internet should not be a tool to threaten and endanger the safety of anyone, let alone…children. Having a basic understanding of how the Internet works and the utilization of instant messaging, web page browsing, or the engagement of other online activities; do not certify one to be too old or uneducated to learn. Children that have access to the Net do need adult supervision. Parents really need to keep up with Internet trends and technology. Parents need to remember – many young people gain access to the Cloud via cell phones, video gaming consoles, and other handheld devices.

Prepare for your child receiving special education services

prepare for your child receiving special education services

Are you glad that summer is finally here, and wondering what you can do to prepare for your child’s next school year? Would you like to learn about a few things you can do in the summer time that will benefit your child’s education? This article will discuss 7 easy to do things, that will help you prepare for your child receiving special education services, next school year.

1. Get an independent educational evaluation (IEE) on your child. A lot of times it may take a while to get an appointment, so make the appointment quickly. An IEE can help you learn what services your child needs, if they have any undiagnosed disabilities, goals that need to be worked on etc.If your child has autism, try and get someone who is familiar with autism. You could start your child’s new school year on a good foot!

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The vast majority of these recalled products are children’s products

The vast majority of these recalled products are children's products

With all the attention on lead in toys after the seven Mattel/Fisher-Price recalls in 2007, you might have assumed the issue was resolved. Think again. From January through June 2008, the there have been more than 50 recalls of over a million products due to high lead content. The vast majority of these recalled products are children’s products.

The latest was a recall of children’s camouflage(!) pajamas with leaded paint from The Children’s Place. Last month, Disney Tinkerbelle wands, Pirates of the Caribbean sleeping bags, Rawlings batting helmets, and children’s brightly painted storage bins sold at Lowes were recalled because they violate the US lead paint standard. Inexpensive children’s jewelry and other similar metal items continue to be recalled regularly.

Why should this register on your very full parent-radar? Just one instance of ingesting lead can permanently harm a child, potentially lowering his or her IQ and impulse control, among other things. Yet many children do not show obvious symptoms. If not identified by a blood test, lead poisoning can continue undetected for years.

Children of sexual abuse are often seen to have

children of sexual abuse are often seen to have

Sexual abuse has affected millions of children throughout the world. Child sexual abuse is defined as: An adult using a child for sexual purposes. This can be in the form of child pornography, submitting children to look at pornography, fondling, touching, kissing, sodomy, exposing oneself to a child, rape, oral sex, intercourse, or having the child touch the adult. All children will react differently to this type of trauma. There is no one single identifiable sign or symptom that all children will have. They may have very subtle symptoms or they may have very pronounced symptoms. I have gathered a list of symptoms that children of sexual abuse are often seen to have.

Bedwetting (after being potty trained)

Waking up in the night screaming, nightmares or other sleeping problems

Showing an unusual fear of certain people, places or things

A reluctance to be with a certain person

Loss of appetite or trouble eating

Fear of the bathroom

Excessive crying

Mood changes, anger outbursts or withdrawal or fear

Becomes worried when clothing is removed

Wearing layers of clothing

Age inappropriate knowledge of sex

Imitating sexual acts with other children or toys, such as dolls

Withdrawing from activities they used to be involved in

Difficulty walking or sitting

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Who is responsible for child migrants

Who is responsible for child migrants

Migration is often driven by conflict or natural disasters. However, economic motivations or the desire to reunify family also drive many people’s decisions to migrate. These migrants are not all adults. Thousands of children, accompanied and unaccompanied, make these journeys too. Official estimates indicate that approximately 48,000 children enter the United States from Central America and Mexico each year illegally and without a parent. Roughly two thirds of these children successfully evade the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Millions more children are severely impacted by family members’ departures. They are left with distant relatives, suffer from depression and often are left to wonder if they will ever see their parents again. Yet the 2005 report of the Global Commission on International Migration barely mentions children.

Who is responsible for child migrants – often found far from home and without parents? The answers to this question are certainly not simple. This paper attempts to understand the challenges children confront in sending, transit and receiving countries. Seeking best practice and identifying poor practice too, this paper focuses primarily on Central American children traveling north to the United States. The paper concludes with recommendations regarding effective existing practices, how progress might be monitored, and which actors must be engaged in protecting the Americas’ many migrant children: within their home countries, along their journey, and in destination countries.