- Study shows that more than 10% of gun owners with children report that a child can independently access one of their guns, including parents who store all guns locked and unloaded. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)01023-X/fulltext 795 comments science
- Adherence to screen time (less than 60 min each day) and physical activity guidelines is associated with executive function in US toddlers participating in the STRONG Kids 2 birth cohort study https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)00761-2/fulltext#relatedArticles 2 comments science
- The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with a substantial rise in frequency and severity of presentation of youth-onset type 2 diabetes https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(22)00719-3/fulltext 8 comments science
- Pediatricians acknowledge that gender dysphoria is a result of trans kids undergoing the incorrect puberty and reject the "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" hypothesis. This underscores the importance of providing trans kids gender-affirming treatment. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4 66 comments science
- Do Clinical Data From Transgender Adolescents Support the Phenomenon of “Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria”? https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)01085-4/fulltext 12 comments science
- A smoke alarm using a mother’s voice significantly outperformed a tone alarm in a new randomized trial. The maternal voice alarms awakened 86%-91% of children and prompted 84%-86% to escape compared with 53% awakened and 51% escaped for the tone alarm. https://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476(18)31298-8/fulltext 689 comments science
- Childhood Corporal Punishment and Future Perpetration of Physical Dating Violence http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476%2817%2931377-x/fulltext 4 comments science
- Spanking your child may have unintended consequences as he or she forges adult romantic relationships years later, a new study suggests. The study found that spanked kids tended to have higher odds of being violent toward their dating partners, researchers said. http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476(17)31377-x/fulltext 112 comments science
- Babies around the world cry for around 2 hours per day in first two weeks, peak at 2 hours 15 mins at six weeks, and reduce to 1 hour 10 minutes by week twelve. Babies cry more in Britain, Canada and Italy, and less in Denmark, Germany and Japan. Based on meta-analysis of almost 8,700 infants. http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476(17)30218-4/fulltext 17 comments science
- Preschool-aged children with early weekday bedtimes were one-half as likely as children with late bedtimes to be obese as adolescents. http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476(16)30361-4/fulltext 7 comments science
- Kids born in August found to be 76% more likely to be medicated for ADHD than classmates born in September http://www.jpeds.com/content/jpedschen 454 comments science
- Study finds that 91% of new parents make a "serious error" in car seat installation or baby positioning when they take their baby home from the hospital. http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476%2815%2901459-6/fulltext 21 comments science
- Study finds deaths associated with crib bumpers, unnecessary padding that lines cribs and is a popular item for new parents to buy, have increased 3x over the past 7 years compared to the previous 7 year period. The authors suggest the numbers could be much higher due to lack of reporting. http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476%2815%2901284-6/abstract 167 comments science
- An infection with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) right after birth can lead to cognitive problems of preterm born children later in life http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476%2814%2901040-3/abstract 10 comments science
- A new study identifies two parenting skills responsible for making breastfed babies smart and may be independent of breast milk: Responding to children’s emotional cues and reading to children starting at 9 months of age. http://www.jpeds.com/article/s0022-3476(13)01243-2/abstract 125 comments science
- Soft Drinks Consumption Is Associated with Behavior Problems in 5-Year-Olds http://www.jpeds.com/webfiles/images/journals/ympd/jpedssuglia.pdf 406 comments science