Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Two or more hours of screen time a day could lead to behavioural and attention problems among children, scientists have ...

Many parents worry their child’s bad behaviour is a result of their parenting mistakes, but new research suggests this may not be the case. A study found that some children are genetically predisposed ...

‘Poverty is so widespread among families it has become the norm’, according to health visitors who have seen an increase in the numbers affected in the last year, impacting children's health and ...

Children aged 3 to 7 years attending school classes where a high proportion of children are identified as at risk of developing a conduct disorder take part in a classroom-based emotional learning and ...

CITING an “increase” in the number of children entering State care with behavioural challenges, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has concluded the first round of training to ...

There's nothing pleasant about being on the end of a child's angry or aggressive outburst - whether you're a parent or a teacher. And if that outburst happens in a classroom rather than the sitting ...

Children with disabilities often struggle at school "on multiple fronts", say the researchers The behaviour of children with disabilities and learning difficulties often worsens when they start school ...

Children who skip breakfast or don’t eat breakfast at home are “more likely to have behavioural problems”, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, added that ...

Professor Yvonne Kelly helped produce the research and told BBC Breakfast about the findings Children who are breastfed for four months or more develop fewer behaviour problems, Oxford researchers say ...

Children who snore, or who have other night-time breathing conditions, are at risk from behavioural problems, according to a study. Sleep apnoea and snoring made conditions such as hyperactivity more ...

We selected the systematic review and meta-analysis by Bakker et al. (2017) for a full commentary as it includes a highly relevant population, a wide range of included interventions, and outcome data ...