Happy Faces Prep School has been a preschool in the Bear Lake Area for over 35 years. It takes a village to raise a child and Happy Faces is an integral part of being in the lives of children in the community. When it comes down to it, Happy Faces was built on family. Like…

Family meals establish lifetime nutrition habits. Eating together establishes good habits later in life, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota. In the study of more than 1,500 people, surveyed once during high school and then again when they were 20 years old, participants were asked questions about how often they ate with their…

Getting less sleep could increase your child’s risk of becoming overweight or obese, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found. In fact, for each additional hour of sleep children get, their risk for obesity drops by 9 percent.

Childhood obesity is becoming a major health issue, and parents everywhere are concerned about teaching their children to eat nutritious meals and maintain a healthy weight. Here are some basic ideas for instilling good nutrition habits in your kids from an early age:

Parents of children with learning disabilities are often told to find the child’s passion—be it sports, music or something else—and use it to teach other skills.

Playing a simple board game such as Chutes and Ladders can improve a preschooler’s numerical knowledge, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found.