Toronto Star: Make exercise child's play, guru says
--"Magnus Scheving is an athlete turned children's TV star who also travels the world promoting kids' fitness."

Washington Post: Doctors Urge More Playtime for Children
--"Here's some soothing medicine for stressed-out parents and overscheduled kids: The American Academy of Pediatrics says what children really need for healthy development is more good, old-fashioned playtime."

Xinhua: Senior CPC official calls for greater ideological education of young people
--"A member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau has called for greater efforts in the ideological and ethical education of the nation's youth."

The Age: Ads using 'sexy' children condemned
--"A report released yesterday by think tank the Australia Institute, Corporate Pedophilia, found tweens — pre-teens — were increasingly being sexualised in sophisticated ad campaigns as retailers, cosmetic and clothing companies tried to reach younger markets."

BBC News: Schools promise for care children
--"A Green Paper on children in care in England proposes putting an expectation on councils to place such children in the best local schools."

New Zealand Herald: Author of Vintner's Luck wins children's book prize
--"The Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Children's Book Awards 2006 celebrate excellence in literature, illustration and non-fiction, said awards co-ordinator Amy Stubbs."

Statesman Journal: No Child Left Behind rations education [Opinion]
--"We need to look closely at the act’s impact on the lives of real kids and educators. Both the co-author of “The Bell Curve,” Charles Murray, and the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (strange bedfellows indeed) have recently argued that the losers in a system based on passing percentages are minority students. It is an approach that not only creates perverse incentives to focus on students close to passing but also underestimates the size of the achievement gap, creating the illusion of progress where none exists. Duke University economists have shown that when schools focus narrowly on passing rates, the gap between high-achieving white students and African American students grows."

IRNA: UN high commissioner for human rights lambasts violence against children
--"After more than three years of work, World Report on Violence against Children, a United Nations study, which will be released on October 11, provides a comprehensive account of the root causes and effects of the problem."

Boston Globe: A child's garden
--"Children now have their own poet laureate. Jack Prelutsky, 66, was given the title last month by the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago publisher of Poetry magazine. The foundation was formed in 2003 thanks to a $100 million gift from pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly."

Sunday Times: Dentists abandon children on NHS
--"Up to two-thirds of children in some areas of England are failing to get regular dental treatment as thousands of youngsters have been dropped by dentists no longer willing to provide free National Health Service care."

Boston Globe: Summary Box: Lawyers for abused and neglected children
--"Federal law requires judges to appoint guardians to represent the child's best interests, but does not say they must be lawyers. In many states, most children are represented by non-lawyer volunteers known as Court Appointed Special Advocates."

Bloomberg: Bush Seeks Better Teachers, More Transfers With `No Child' Law
--"President George W. Bush proposed strengthening the No Child Left Behind law, saying he wants to further improve the quality of U.S. teachers and give parents more options to flee failing schools."

Courier Mail: Teen failed for stand on gays
--"A 13-YEAR-OLD student was failed after she refused to write an assignment on life in a gay community, because of her religious and moral beliefs."

Toronto Star: Should children race cars?
--"Thousands of children all around the world are being introduced at a very young age by their parents (usually their fathers) to a sport that could do them very serious harm and maybe even kill them."

Unison.ie: Young people gather in Dublin for national conference
--"Over 200 young people have gathered in Dublin today for the third annual National Youth Conference."

thisismoney: Middle classes hijack child support
--"Under the scheme parents can visit the centres and take part in a range of activities to entertain young children. But ministers say that the poorest families find the service intimidating or overwhelming while affluent families are benefiting."

Reuters: India: Child labor law welcomed, but needs enforcing
--"Child domestic workers, those under age 18, are nearly invisible and are especially vulnerable. They work alone in individual households, hidden from public scrutiny, where their lives are controlled by their employers. Child domestics typically work long hours for little or no pay. "

Ohmynews: Challenges of writing a teen market An interview with novelist Tabitha Suzuma
--"Her books are aimed at older teens and young adults, but in the United Kingdom, teen fiction is still under the umbrella of children's fiction and is usually found in the same corner of the bookshop."

LA Times: Grand old party of child endangerment [Opinion]
--"Children don't live in a vacuum, of course. They're part of families, and their fate is entwined with their parents' fate. And no matter how you slice and dice the data, American families and the children who live in them are more vulnerable now than they have been in decades."

chron.com: Complete forms no guarantee for CHIP
--"About half of children dropped from the Children's Health Insurance Program provided missing information requested by a new private contractor processing the applications, but lost coverage anyway, state officials said Thursday. "

DNA India: Kalam gives Indian youth 7 out of 10
--"President APJ Abdul Kalam rates Indian youth at seven on a scale of one to 10 on a global podium."

BBC News: Concern over 'missing' children
--"The majority of education authorities in England do not have a written policy on dealing with children who are missing school, research shows."

Washington Post: Bush pitches incentive pay for teachers
--Proposals outlined in talk at a D.C. charter school

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Corporate groups back youth summit
--"Tetrazzini Foods, Lucozade Boost, Centre for Black and African Arts & Civilization (CBAAC), Lantern Books, Sandy Pens, and others have thrown their weight behind the forthcoming National Youth Summit scheduled for the October 26, 2006 at the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu Lagos."

IranMania: Isfahan to host children's theater festival
--"The13 th Children and Young Adults Theater Festival will be held in Isfahan from October9 -14."

Washington Post: Bush: No Child Left Behind closing achievement gap
--"President Bush said today that the No Child Left Behind education requirements he signed into law four years ago have helped to close the achievement gap and he proposed several changes to the law aimed at assisting teachers and giving parents more school choice."

Life Style Extra: 'Bad bosses stunting growth Of young talent'
--"Businesses risk losing future leaders with more than one in ten workers aged between 18 and 24 feeling their manager is holding them back."

Toronto Star: Stop clawback of child benefit: Put poverty on the political agenda [Letter]
--"Though the reasons why 4.8 million Canadians are poor in one of the richest countries in the world may be complex, the first steps in redressing the problem are simple."

Planet Rugby: Wales spotlights youth violence
--"The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) today revealed the full facts surrounding an alarming rise in violent incidents on and off the field within junior rugby (Under 12 - Under 15) and youth rugby (Under 16 - Under 19) in Wales - and outlined the consequences of Welsh rugby not taking notice and bucking this trend."

EW.com: Little Children [movie review]
--"When did words like adult, child, suburban, and playground lose their neutrality — their innocence?"

BBC News: Young children need more exercise
--"Nursery children need more physical exercise to burn off their energy and stave off the threat of obesity, experts warn."

The Independent: The Big Question: Is it exploitation to adopt children from the developing world?

International Herald Journal: Facebook Web site looks to register young voters
--"Facebook, the social networking Web site with 9.5 million users, now features a Rock the Vote page to target potential voters. The Facebook site ranks No. 7 for U.S. Internet traffic and its users are largely college-aged."

allAfrica.com: Angola: Youth council web site launched today
--"The National Youth Council (CNJ) launches this Wednesday, in Luanda, its web site with the electronic address www.cnj.angoladigital.net."

The Hindu: 100-member Indian youth team to visit China
--"The delegation, comprising youth from Panchayati Raj institutions, sports academies, scholars of Chinese studies, social workers, folk and cultural artists and entrepreneurs, will be visiting China from October 8 to 17, according to an official release here today."

Yahoo News: Irony Tsunami: Bush proclaimed Monday 'Child Health Day'
--"From our you've-got-to-be-kidding-me file, we discover that, slipping quietly by yesterday, was Child Health Day 2006, which was officially designated by George W. Bush on September 28."

White House.gov: Child Health Day, 2006 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Proprietress calls for early child educators' training
--"The Federal Government has been called upon to urgently create a specialised higher institution for the training of early childhood educators, if the Universal Basic Education (UBE) is to succeed."

Louisville Courier Journal: Book cites Children’s Academy of New Albany
--"Maeroff writes approvingly of the academy’s decision to focus on pre-kindergarten through grade three, and to get all students reading at or above grade level by the time they finish the third grade."

Village Voice: Game theory: Designers transform New York into a giant adult playground
--""When we played games as kids," recalls McLellan, "everybody played. Sometimes it would go on for days all over the neighborhood. This is like a big-city version of that. I like the fact that, even as adults, we can agree to a set of rules and play together.""

Monsters and Critics: Young testers make their picks for top holiday toys
--"On Tuesday, FamilyFun Magazine releases its 15th annual Toy of the Year awards, which feature toys that are chosen after thousands of hours of play by more than 1,300 kid testers."

The Mercury News: America's youth becoming engaged in community, political activity
--"In many civic activities, there were only small differences in the rates of participation between young people and older people, the report's authors said."

Fox News: American Youth Largely Uninvolved in Civic Activities
--"It's a myth that young Americans are uninvolved in civic and political activity, but a great number of those aged 15 to 25 are still completely unengaged, according to a report released Tuesday."

The Age: In Uganda, children are being forced to kill other children
--"It's another forgotten flashpoint of conflict in central Africa, writes Helen Mirren."

Detroit Free Press: Child support may cost game licenses
--"If you can't hunt down the money to make child support payments in Macomb County -- or at least the time to make an effort -- you won't have the right to hunt down animals."

Swissinfo: Weapons ban wins support among young Swiss
--"A national youth assembly has called for an outright ban on firearms in Swiss households."

Guardian Unlimited: Every child has a right to childhood, Tories say
--"Delegates voted by a narrow margin (52%) for a ban on marketing aimed at children in the first "hot topic" debate of the conference, ahead of a panel debate on public service delivery for the young."

News.com.au: Unions demand child labour reforms
--"Among the changes, unions want 14 years of age established as the minimum age for employment and limits on the type of work children can perform and the hours they can work."

Seattle Times: Sidewalks without children
--"Consider these facts. In 1960, according to census statistics, children under 18 years of age represented nearly 30 percent of Seattle's half-million residents. By 2005, their numbers had dropped by almost half. In 1960, Seattle Public Schools had nearly 100,000 students. Today, the district has fewer than half that number."

NDTV.com: Youth Parliament mulls serious issues
--"Their current preoccupation is being zero, a space for young people to debate the definition of citizenship and the changes they would like. Being zero examines what the Right To Information means to young people and how it can be used by them. The session will also discuss India's legal system."

Monsters and Critics: Maoists justify induction of children
--"Maoist rebels, who claim to fight against repression, find nothing wrong in inducting minors between eight and 15 years in their organisation. They term children as cultural ambassadors of their movement."

Los Angeles Times: Maureen Daly McGivern, 85; Her Young Adult Novel in 1942 Launched a Genre
--"Maureen Daly McGivern, who pioneered the young adult novel with "Seventeenth Summer," a teenage coming-of-age story published in 1942, has died. She was 85."

IranMania: World’s Children’s Day Festival in Tehran Oct.1
--"Organized by the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), the festival focuses on the themes of child, prayer, and affection, the IIDCYA’s public relations officer said."

Honolulu Star Bulletin: Month celebrates importance of youth
--"October is Children and Youth Month in Hawaii, a designation created in 1997 as a way of recognizing the importance of nurturing children, our state's greatest asset."

China Daily: Nation's one-child policy 'will not change'
--"Beijing will not ease restrictions on the birth of a second child for people with higher educational qualifications, and the second-child policy is still mainly open to rural residents and couples from one-child families."

Chicago Tribune: The Swamp: Why did Foley keep child-protection job?
--"Foley carved out a role for himself as a congressional leader on the issue of exploited children, and is credited with authoring important sections of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 which President Bush signed into law this summer."