More than 220m children will be obese by 2040 without drastic action, report warns

World Obesity Federation says half a billion children will be overweight and calls on governments to act to create healthier environments…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/04/more-than-220m-children-will-be-obese-by-2040-without-drastic-action-report-warns 

 

Death toll from school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150

The Nobel peace prize laureate and girls' education advocate Malala Yousafzai said in a statement: "They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future. Today, their lives were brutally cut short. 

"Justice and accountability must follow. All states and parties must uphold their obligations under international law to protect civilians and safeguard schools."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/iran-school-bombing-death-toll-us-israel-strikes 

 

Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories — ProPublica

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls. The Trump administration and private prison operator disputed detainees' claims...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal

 

Ann Arbor Public Schools to join federal social media lawsuit

Ann Arbor Public Schools will be joining districts across the country in a federal lawsuit alleging that numerous social media companies have prioritized engagement with their platforms over the safety of children and teens…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2026-02-09/ann-arbor-public-schools-to-join-federal-social-media-lawsuit 

 

Rx Kids launches in Detroit

"It's not a pill, it's prevention. We give families a little bit of breathing room during pregnancy and infancy when money is the tightest because stress, housing instability, and hunger makes kids and communities sick," Hanna said during an event in Detroit to mark the launch...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-02-09/rx-kids-launches-in-detroit 

 

Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters 

 

Children Describe Life Inside Dilley ICE Detention Center — ProPublica

Alexander Perez, a 15-year-old from the Dominican Republic, told me about going to school at Dilley. He said classes included kids from mixed age groups, and each class allowed only 12 students and lasted for just one hour. Slots were assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Children would line up, hoping to get in. The staff leading the class would distribute handouts and worksheets to those who made it inside. 

Alexander Perez complained that the lessons were usually meant for kids who were younger than him, so he found them boring. But because there wasn't much else to do, he used to go whenever he could, until an instructor turned a social studies lesson into what felt like an interrogation about immigration policy…

https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children 

 

Federal Agents Launch Tear Gas at Nonviolent Anti-ICE Protesters—Including Children – Mother Jones

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson released a statement late Saturday night, saying that it was a "peaceful daytime protest" that "posed no danger to federal forces." 

"To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave," he continued. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/federal-agents-launch-tear-gas-at-nonviolent-anti-ice-protesters-including-children-portland-oregon/ 

 

The Christian Right's "Greater Than" campaign claims married gay parents are threats to kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6e79LVw5sk

 

Funding slashed for programs combating child sex trafficking

Federal prosecutors are now operating under new "austerity" measures, put into place by the justice department, creating roadblocks to prosecuting alleged child predators, sources said…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/justice-department-cuts-child-sex-trafficking

 

ICE’s Tear Gas Sent a 6-Month-Old to the Hospital, the Latest in an Alarming Pattern – Mother Jones

Federal agents' use of chemical weapons has hurt children at immigration raids, while walking down their block, and in their schools...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-tear-gas-on-kids-minneapolis-chicago-chemical-irritant/  

Kids with brain cancer were already in a life and death struggle. Then came Trump

Donald Trump has promised to "defeat childhood cancer once and for all". On the frontlines of the disease, scientists and families say the opposite is unfolding. 

 How the country arrived here is no secret. The blueprint for the administration's approach to scientific research was set out by Project 2025, a 920-page report compiled by the rightwing Heritage Foundation. It called for, in effect, the dismantling of the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the world's largest funder of medical research. 

"The NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken," the document says on page 462…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/15/childhood-brain-cancer-trump

 

This is why Christian homeschooling hurts children

In an essay for the New York Times, Stefan Merrill Block, author of the memoir “Homeschooled,” wrote about why religious homeschooling can be a problem, and how conservative Christians are preventing states from fixing them. 

This is a jaw-dropping look at why so many people are concerned about isolation and indoctrination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCmHw_nReI

 

#matchalatte

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7-b305N4lyY

After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation — ProPublica

They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn't fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Young men took to the streets in protests, some of which devolved into violent riots. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing the camp by foot and in overcramped cars, threatening a new migration crisis on the continent. They said they'd rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving in Kakuma...

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths 

 

Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3GJwNadeE

 

History Minute (047): What did the children think?

Blacks of the north who worked to ban slavery asked children in a private school financed by and for Negroes this question: "What do you think most about?" 

As conveyed by Zinn, a seven-year-old child wrote:

"Dear schoolmates, we are going next summer to buy a farm and to work part of the day and to study the other part if we live to see it and come home part of the day to see our mothers and sisters and cousins if we are got any and see our kind folks and to be good boys and when we get a man to get the poor slaves from bondage. And I am sorrow to hear that the boat . . . went down with 200 poor slaves from up the river. Oh how sorrow I am to hear that, it grieves my heart so that I could faint in one minute."

Excerpt From

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

 

The French Rule That Ends Picky Eating (No More Battles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-di06pX-TKM

 

FDA claims COVID vaccine contributed to the death of at least 10 children

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VtYwWkmBgoA

ADHD Child vs. Non-ADHD Child Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IO6zqIm88s