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Google celebrates India's Independence Day with special doodle

New Delhi [India], August 15 (ANI): Google honoured the 71st Anniversary of India's Independence on August 15 with a special Doodle.

2017-08-15T01:56:43+00:00 IST

Smartphone tracking shows fear affects where youth spend time

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 14 (ANI): Teenagers spend less than an hour in disadvantaged neighbourhoods that locals consider dangerous, but they don't usually listen to their parents' fears about safety, says a study that used smartphones to track kids.

2017-08-14T16:38:19+00:00 IST

Stress can cause decrease in lactation

New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): Stress is one of the reasons leading to increase in lifestyle diseases in people. For lactating women, stress is not only a ticking bomb for the mother but also her baby.

2017-08-14T06:22:33+00:00 IST

'Helicopter' parenting may leave your kid ill-prepared for real life

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 13 (ANI): Parents beware! You may be damaging your kid's behavior with your overprotective or pampering nature, warns a study.

2017-08-13T12:26:46+00:00 IST

When on road with group, have the rules

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 12 (ANI): Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.To travel is to take a journey into yourself,but it takes a different dimension when with friends.

2017-08-12T15:15:36+00:00 IST

Are parents' earnings, gender roles, mental health linked?

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 12 (ANI): Gender refers to 'the array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviours, values, relative power and influence that society ascribes to the two sexes on a differential basis. Gender is relational-gender roles and characteristics do not exist in isolation, but are defined in relation to one another and through the relationships between women and men.'

2017-08-12T12:06:27+00:00 IST

Twelve-year-old boy branded as 'Devil' for having 'big hands'

Lucknow [India] August 11 (ANI): Tarik, a 12-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh has been suffering from a mysterious condition of 'big hands' since birth, that made the village folks term him a 'Devil.'

2017-08-11T20:22:52+00:00 IST

Here's an Ayurvedic approach to parenting

New Delhi [India] Aug 11 (ANI): Parenting is a crucial responsibility that entails bringing up a child mentally, physically, and socially in the best possible way. It is a difficult task for both parents as well as single parents.

2017-08-11T16:51:11+00:00 IST

Training parents for life skills development of 21st century kids

New Delhi [India] Aug 11 (ANI): Today, life has expanded at such a rate that children come out as conscientious adults, even before they are aware of the meaning of the term!

2017-08-11T16:16:44+00:00 IST

Preemies' parents as happy as those with full-term babies by adulthood

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 11 (ANI): Parents of preemies are usually worn to a frazzle more than other parents when their kids are young, but according to a recent study, there's light at the end of the tunnel.

2017-08-11T04:06:52+00:00 IST

Weird things people start doing when they turn parents

Melbourne [Australia], August 10 (ANI):We are only humans, so it's normal for us to play power games with one another, without letting the other know.

2017-08-10T17:13:26+00:00 IST

Prehistoric Britons ate their dead, carved patterns on bones

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 10 (ANI): England was once populated by cannibals, who used to feast on each other, before carving patterns on the bones, according to a recent study.

2017-08-10T04:39:44+00:00 IST

Parents' disagreements about bedtime may affect co-parenting relationship

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 09 (ANI): Positive parental teamwork is a key to promote healthy child development.

2017-08-09T13:07:31+00:00 IST

More depressed moms-to-be are smoking in US

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 9 (ANI): Smoking is on the rise among pregnant women with depression in the United States, according to a new research.

2017-08-09T07:09:26+00:00 IST

Extreme heat linked to climate change not good for moms-to-be

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 9 (ANI): Moms-to-be, you may want to protect yourself from the high temperatures as according to a recent study, extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy.

2017-08-09T05:40:53+00:00 IST

When you hit a low, your Insta pics turn blue

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 8 (ANI): Turns out, your blue mind can taint your online photos.

2017-08-08T08:02:59+00:00 IST

'Unrealistic' media portrayals of pregnancy put women at risk

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 8 (ANI): To a large extent, media "unrealistically" portrays the glamour of pregnancy, according to a recent study.

2017-08-08T07:12:51+00:00 IST

Turns out, safety of sleeping infants just a text away

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 8 (ANI): A mother's latest little helper is already in her pocket as a team of researchers has found that a new educational intervention delivered in the form of texts and emails can increase adherence to safe sleep practices for infants.

2017-08-08T07:12:40+00:00 IST

This is how birds get their colour!

New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): There are about 18,000 bird species on Earth, and every species is differently coloured.

2017-08-07T14:05:17+00:00 IST

Mothers! Not just your babies, breastfeeding is good for you too

New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): One of the most important aspects of motherhood is breastfeeding the newborn. There is an adage which goes, "Breast is best" and truer words could not have been spoken. Breastfed infants have a stronger immune system and are healthier in the longer term.

2017-08-07T10:44:36+00:00 IST

Here's why students with incarcerated parents perform poorly

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 7 (ANI): Children whose parents have spent time behind the bars have worse social, economic, cognitive, behaviour and health outcomes than the kids whose parents haven't and now, a recent study has shed some light on why it is so.

2017-08-07T06:18:40+00:00 IST