International Business News - Kids http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Fourteen-year-old Thula Martin knows exactly what she'll say if her teacher asks the class what they did this summer: "I ran away and joined the circus." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/kids-run-off-to-join-the-circus-for-the-summer.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:39:46 EDT More older children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder while the rate is holding steady for children under 12, according to a government report released Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/adhd-increasingly-common-in-older-kids-cdc-says.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:18:16 EDT Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged kids to embrace socialism, raising the ire of educators and parents who turned back the Venezuelan president's earlier proposal to rewrite textbooks to add socialist doctrine. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/chavez-touts-socialism-to-venezuela-kids.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:55:25 EDT One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/92224-couch-potato-kids.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/study-when-kids-become-teens-they-get-sluggish.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/study-when-kids-become-teens-they-get-sluggish.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:39:38 EDT One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/92039-couch-potato-kids.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/when-a-child-becomes-a-teen-sluggishness-sets-in.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/when-a-child-becomes-a-teen-sluggishness-sets-in.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:52:04 EDT Two American-born teens forced by their father to attend a religious school in Pakistan for nearly four years have returned home to Atlanta after a documentary filmmaker pushed for their release. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/pakistani-religious-school-releases-ga-teens.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:29:39 EDT Twelve-year-old Alexia Belen Moreno was afraid living in her father's house in Ciudad Juarez, where drug cartels are fighting a bloody war. She begged to move in with her mother just across the border in El Paso, Texas. Her parents agreed--but asked her to stay a few more weeks to finish school. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89277-mexico-kids-in-crossfire.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/more-kids-caught-in-mexico-drug-war-crossfire.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/more-kids-caught-in-mexico-drug-war-crossfire.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:13:48 EDT EU officials want European schoolchildren to swap their French fries for fruit. The European Union is aiming to spend $140 million a year to provide free fruit and vegetables to schools across the continent to tackle child obesity, officials said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/europe-plans-free-fruit-veggies-for-school-kids.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:40:20 EDT Young Tad Lincoln herded goats into a White House sitting room. Quentin Roosevelt rammed his wagon into a historic painting. John Kennedy Jr. had to be scooped out of a hiding place in his father's desk. Amy Carter famously brought a book to a state dinner. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/what-kind-of-life-awaits-next-presidential-kids.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:17:09 EDT A close encounter between flirtatious strippers and children playing in a golf tournament was the result of "mistiming," golf course officials said Tuesday as they apologized to parents. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/kid-golfers-strippers-share-golf-course.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:02:44 EDT The percentage of underweight babies born in the U.S. has increased to its highest rate in 40 years, according to a new report that also documents a recent rise in the number of children living in poverty. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/70053-child-welfare-states.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/report-worrisome-rise-in-underweight-babies.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/report-worrisome-rise-in-underweight-babies.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:59:11 EDT The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080528/study-hints-obesity-epidemic-among-us-children-has-peaked.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 16:00:14 EDT The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/56539-obese-kids.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080527/obesity-epidemic-among-us-children-may-have-peaked.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080527/obesity-epidemic-among-us-children-may-have-peaked.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 19:18:50 EDT A Mexican housewife was sentenced to more than nine years in jail after she pleaded guilty to using two children to smuggle cocaine into Britain, the customs agency said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/woman-jailed-for-using-kids-to-smuggle-drugs.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 17:25:36 EDT Congress has renewed and approved a bigger budget for a joint private-public program that has helped rescue more than 100,000 missing children since it was created in 1984. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080521/congress-approves-missing-children-program.htm Wed, 21 May 2008 15:32:22 EDT The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles in detention centers in Iraq, and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080519/us-500-youths-detained-in-iraq-10-in-afghanistan.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 14:49:15 EDT It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman _ she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/happy-mothers-day-woman-pregnant-with-18th-child.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 09:14:05 EDT An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the distr... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080406/kids-dress-up-day-draws-christian-ire.htm Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:38:39 EDT Legislators are seeking to ban mixed martial arts competitions sometimes called "cage fighting" among children in Missouri, which appears to be the only state where youth matches are allowed. The sp... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080403/mo-asked-to-ban-cage-fighting-by-kids.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:48:23 EDT They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The Boston boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s, has reunited and plans to re... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080403/new-kids-on-the-block-to-reunite.htm Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:37:11 EDT