by Childrens Hospital Boston staff on June 18, 2010
by Childrens Hospital Boston staff on May 16, 2010
Missed a Thrive post? Here’s what we’ve been up to this week:
Thrive continues its coverage of Children’s Hospital Boston and Project Medishare staffers who worked in Haiti as part of the ongoing relief effort. In the past 5 days we heard from Grace Chan, MD, Maggie Pierre, RN, Sarah Wingerter, MD, Nancy Joseph, RN, BSN, MSN, FNP-C; staff nurse in CHPCC
Children’s media expert Michael Rich, MD, MPH discusses a recent study that links excessive TV use by toddlers to poorer school performance in later years
Did you hear? This week Children’s launched a brand new website focusing on its Stem Cell Research program and how stem cell research has already impacted the lives of sick children. Thrive featured a first-person account by a family recalling the challenges they faced in trying to help their son. Full story »
by Childrens Hospital Boston staff on May 14, 2010
Michael Rich, MD, MPH
Last week Rich answered a question about kids being addicted to cell phones. This week he discusses a recent study that indicated children who watch too much TV as toddlers could face health and school problems later on in life.
TV as teacher, TV as companion, TV as babysitter. Nearly half of all children under age 2 watch TV and 41 percent of preschoolers exceed expert recommendations for TV time. We have all done it – to help our children learn the ABCs or just to buy some time to make them dinner. But we have felt uneasy about it. In the short term, it gets the job done, but in the long term, does it help our babies or harm them? Full story »
