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Study: Sites Like Tumblr, Skype Outpace Facebook For Bullying

A study of social media and bullying in Atlantic Canada shows that Facebook is one of the less commonly used tools for cyberbullying among teens.  Released this week by online research company MediaBadger, the study shows that sites such as Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ and Skype - as well as others that parents may not have even heard of - are outpacing Facebook for use in bullying.

Transgender Kids in California Earn Right to Choose Bathrooms and Sports Teams

California is poised to become the first U.S. state to require schools to let kids choose bathrooms and sports teams based on their gender identity, marking some of the strongest protections for transgender youth in the country.  More

Ryan Wang: 5 yr old Piano Prodigy

Canadian boy plays for 101 year old woman on CBC.  Watch.

Lessons From Ontario's Campaign to Cut Child Poverty

Ontario has reduced child poverty for three years in a row, and its strategy holds important lessons for future progress.
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Who Said Bluegrass is Dead?

The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.
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Community, not Celebrity, Key to Shaping Youth Behaviour

Lessons from the boys of summer, the little boys of summer, that is, can help us encourage civil behaviour among all of the kids in our lives.  And civility among young people is an issue.  Surveys reveal that a majority of adults use words such as "rude" and "irresponsible" to describe todays's teens.  employers note a lack of work ethic and other basic character traits, especially among younger employees.
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Latest Beer Belly Remedies and Research

The Heart and Stroke Foundation confirms that "almost 60% of all Canadian adults and 26% of our children and adolescents are overweight or obese."  So it was no accident that the 9,300 experts who converged recently for the Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting spent a lot of time talking about the obesity epidemic.
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Teenagers Want to Work, Not Find Fame, Survey Finds

A major survey of teenagers suggests they are less materialistic than their older brothers and sisters but anxious about their place in a future economy dominated by austerity.