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Kids

Theodore playing piano with ear protection (Randy Scott Carroll for WHYY)

What’s going on in the ear when your child hears a loud noise?

In the same way your voice is louder in a smaller room, sounds are amplified in a child’s smaller ear, says a Children’s Hospital audiologist.

7 years ago

Listen 4:30
Mike is the son of an American mom and an Italian dad and grew up in a little southern Italian town. He took a month of parental leave to take care of his newborn son Elliot in Brooklyn. (Dirk Anschütz)
NPR
Community

Census says more than 60% of US men are fathers

The data in the report come from 2014 when the bureau for the first time asked both men and women about their fertility histories.

7 years ago

Several VisionQuest employees are seen departing in small groups from the North Broad Streetlocation to join other employees and members of the community at a March 2019 meeting at the nearby Old York House. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

Embattled North Philly immigrant youth center can open, judge says

A Common Pleas court judge has cleared the way for a controversial facility to house immigrant minors to open in North Philadelphia.

7 years ago

A group of children walk with their caregivers on Vine Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

For parents who work nights and weekends, study finds child care is especially difficult

An estimated 150,000 Pa. families need child care outside the typical work day. But a new study says few providers can afford to offer that service.

7 years ago

Sesame Street's Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby attend HBO Premiere of Sesame Street's The Magical Wand Chase at the Metrograph in 2017 in New York City.
(Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

50 years young: How the music of ‘Sesame Street’ keeps up with the times

As the iconic TV program has aged, it has managed to stay musically apace with its forever-young audience

7 years ago

Cooperative Nursery School director Leah Corsover with a student. (Paul Jablow/The Notebook)
Education
Broke in Philly

Mt. Airy early childhood center works on increasing diversity

Recruitment, workshops, and "challenging" discussions about racism are all part of the effort.

7 years ago

Philadelphia's Office of Homeless Services is in line to get $800,000 to keep families from becoming homeless. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philly budget carves out extra support for low-income families facing homelessness

The Kenney administration wants to add about $1 million to the Office of Homeless Services budget. The money would be used to keep families in their homes.

7 years ago

Children got a lesson in wildlife management after the Pa. Game Commission tranquilized a bear that had wandered into Harrisburg. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Community

A bear stuck in a tree in Harrisburg becomes a wildlife lesson for children

The Game Commission plans to bring the bear north, to the mountains he would typically call home.

7 years ago

Dr. Tibisay Villalobos-Fry is a pediatric infectious-diseases specialist at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital in Allentown.  (Christine Fennessy for WHYY)
Health

Measles in 2019: We’ve forgotten how bad it can be, pediatricians say

Vaccines worry a lot of parents. Pediatricians understand that, but they worry we’ve forgotten just how sick kids can get without the shots.

7 years ago

Listen 4:09
Christian Howell (center) is flanked by younger siblings Kaiden and Karima at the African Barbershop on North Market Street in Wilmington. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Books in barbershops aims to give Wilmington boys ‘another avenue’

The child literacy initiative that began in New York five years ago is now in Wilmington barbershops. A library official said it aims to show kids that reading is “cool.”

7 years ago

Listen 3:18
In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, photo, Maria Orbelina Cortez, (right), walks with her 3-year-old son, Julio, (center), and a worker at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas. Orbelina says she decided to flee El Salvador after her husband attacked her and caused a pan of hot oil to fall, scalding Julio and leaving a scar on his head. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
ProPublica

Over 200 allegations of abuse of migrant children; 1 case of Homeland Security disciplining someone

From 2009 to 2014, at least 214 complaints were filed against federal agents for abusing or mistreating migrant children.

7 years ago

(photo credit, Big Stocks)
Radio Times
Health

Kids and screens

Children spend a lot of time on screens, which worries many parents. We discuss the effects of screens on kids' mental, physical, emotional, and social health

Air Date: May 28, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:28
Rashan Henry, a veteran child abuse/neglect investigator and now a supervisor, says 'cases never stop because kids are getting abused every day.' (Cris Barrish/WHYY News)
Courts & Law

Caseloads for Delaware child-abuse investigators are double the legal limit

Turnover among Delaware’s child-abuse investigators runs 40% a year. The state doesn’t have enough to meet its legal standard for caseloads.

7 years ago

Listen 4:26
Naomi Scott plays Jasmine in the new live-action Aladdin movie. The character was the first official Disney princess of color in the 1992 animated version of the film. (Daniel Smith/Disney Enterprises, Inc.)
NPR
Lifestyle

How Disney princesses influence girls around the world

Disney has made an effort to diversify and empower its princess cast in recent decades, responding to criticisms that the brand is too white and casts women in passive roles.

7 years ago

Three children in 100 have amblyopia or “lazy eye,” a vision-robbing, brain-connected disorder that typically affects just one eye. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Health

Look out for ‘lazy eye,’ a vision problem that worsens as children get older

Amblyopia affects three out of every 100 kids. Age 2 is the ideal time to detect and treat it, vision experts say, but that doesn’t happen often.

7 years ago

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