children of Asia (Asian children)

“I was a small, little, chubby Asian child,” explained Ethridge in an opening video package. “People look at me and are like 'Okay, this kid is half-Korean and sings country music,' they're like 'Excuse me?' If I get through this audition today, my family is going to be ecstatic, especially my little sister. She's in ...

Long before Amy Chua proclaimed the superiority of Chinese forms of child-rearing by stressing discipline and adult direction, many white American children and their parents were meeting successful Asian children at school and at parent-teacher conferences, and Asian parents, among others, were ...

"I was a small little chubby Asian child," he relates. "People look at me and they're like, 'Okay, this kid's like half Korean and sings country music.' And 'I'm like, excuse me?'" Ethridge, after charmingly noting his little sister (who drew a picture of him as a panda dressed in pink accessories) would be most ...

A few years ago, 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua went on to point out in her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on how Asian children are successful in the US through relentless pressure on excellence. It was met with a backlash from newspapers like the New York Times and the Guardian. In our own country, ...

A history teacher who made "racist" comments to pupils has been banned from the profession. Philip Pedley, 60, taught at the private Oundle School, in Oundle, Northamptonshire for more than 26 years. A misconduct panel found he told a pupil "your father must have come over, stealing our jobs". He was ...

White and ethnically Asian children exhibited significantly lower rates of obesity than their black, Hispanic and other race counterparts. Obesity and severe obesity increased for children aged 2 to 5 and for females aged 16 to 19. Children young in age had two times the odds of obesity if they were of low ...

“In almost every group of states we looked at, as well as nationally, white and Asian children have the lowest rates of ACEs, while black and Hispanic children tend to have the highest,” said Sacks. In numbers, this translates to 61 percent of black children, 51 percent of Latino children, 40 percent of white ...

The number of cases of type 2 diabetes among children in the United Kingdom rose during the past decade, with evidence of an increasing trend among girls and children of South Asian ethnicity, according to findings published in Diabetic Medicine. “Identifying type 2 diabetes in childhood is important so ...

And that spells bad news for the hugely disproportionate numbers of black and Asian children going hungry and cold. Bad news and ruined futures. New research by the University of Geneva suggests that child poverty increases the risk of heart disease and cancer in later life – even if you work your way ...

In this combination of photos; left, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, Donald Trump Jr. gives a thumbs-up as he arrives for a meeting in New Delhi, India, and right, Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, Ivanka Trump arrives in Seoul, Korea, for the... Ivanka Trump's appearance at this weekend's closing ceremony of the ...

“In almost every group of states we looked at, as well as nationally, white and Asian children have the lowest rates of ACEs, while black and Hispanic children tend to have the highest,” said Sacks. In numbers, this translates to 61 percent of black children, 51 percent of Latino children, 40 percent of white ...

They live their lives online, and are not shy about showing off their precious toys and presence at exotic places that most other people can only dream about. Meet the princelings and princesses of regional political and business leaders. While in the past only their closest friends and family members got to ...

The drug death rate went up 20 percent per 100,000 women aged 15 to 44 since 2016, according to the 2018 Health of Women and Children Report. To better understand the changing health of women and children across the U.S., the report used 62 health indicators, including those examining the ...