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Children

News on schools, education, childcare, children's health and child rights advocacy

Schoolgirl’s blackmail reveals online dangers

TechnologyMarch 20, 2017

The cartoons teach children the alphabet, numbers, colours and shapes – and also good behaviour, such as going to bed when they are told and the importance of being polite.

How a Jordanian family is trying to save the Arabic language, one cartoon at a time

WorldMarch 19, 2017

Doctors seeing increasing numbers of children affected by too much screen time

HealthMarch 19, 2017

Fathers gained more in life expectancy than mothers, said the report. Getty Images

Parents live longer than childless peers, says study

WorldMarch 14, 2017

A Syrian boy Ahmed, 6, sits on a damaged classroom in a school in Idlib, north Syria.The UN's child relief agency says at least 652 children were killed in Syria last year, making 2016 the worst year yet for the country's rising generation. Unicef via AP

Violence against Syria’s children ‘at its worst’ in 2016

WorldMarch 13, 2017

Boy hospitalised after being abused by his parents, Dubai Police say

UAEMarch 13, 2017

Yemeni children at a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of the southern city of Taez on January 11, 2017. Many Yemeni children have suffered psychological trauma from the war but help for them is not readily available, risking serious consequences, according to experts. Ahmad Al Basha/AFP

Yemen’s children suffer untold psychological damage

WorldMarch 11, 2017

Zeta Yarwood. Victor Besa for The National

Your Money Blog: How to talk to your kids about money

MoneyMarch 10, 2017

Illustration by Gary Clement for The National

The rug was pulled out from under my family

BusinessMarch 10, 2017

Civil Defence honour Abdallah Mohammed Abu Zahra who used his smarts to help a trapped brother and sister by taking a screwdriver and using it to prise open the door of the lift at his residential building. Courtesy Ajman Civil Defence

Hero 11-year-old rescues brother and sister trapped in building’s lift

UAEMarch 09, 2017

Greenfield Community School's new mindfulness and well-being room gives students a relaxing space to refocus and de-stress. Courtesy Greenfield Community School

Mindfulness room opens at Dubai school

WellbeingMarch 06, 2017

Elvin Mathew, 6, focuses on his painting on Saturday at the Picture This art workshop for children with autism at Umm Al Emarat Park in Abu Dhabi. They and other children created their masterpieces, which will be on show at the park. Delores Johnson / The National

Children mingle at autism event

EducationMarch 04, 2017

Mohamed Alowais, 8, and his brother Nasir, 9, at the course at Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University in Dubai. Their father says ‘computer science is a tool for the future’. Anna Nielsen for The National

Children crack the codes for jobs not yet invented

EducationMarch 04, 2017

Thousands of children are orphaned or abandoned in India each year, and expatriates are lining up to adopt them. Money Sharma / AFP

India authorities assure UAE couples process will speed up

UAEMarch 04, 2017

Parents must vaccinate children, medical congress hears

HealthMarch 02, 2017

Zaid Al Jaberi, 11, an Emirati student who has learning difficulties, with his Arabic teacher Alaa Shatnawi at the Taleem Centre. Jeffrey E Biteng / The National

Unique Abu Dhabi learning disability centre will close if it doesn’t find Dh1 million, founder says

EducationFebruary 28, 2017

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