What do you know about finding a Healthy Yogurt for your Children?

"Find a Healthy Yogurt for Your Kids."
Their bright packaging may appeal to children, but their nutrition may not pass muster with parents.

Packed with protein, calcium, and gut-friendly probiotics, yogurt is a healthy food many parents want their kids to eat. Marketers know that, offering yogurts that appeal directly to kids, with flavors like cotton candy and strawberry-watermelon and cartoon characters sometimes splashed across their colorful cartons. But does your child really need a special kids’ yogurt?

Recently, CR reviewed 12 strawberry-flavored kids’ yogurts, examining product claims, nutrition facts, and ingredients to see how they compare to yogurts sold to adults....
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Are homeschooled students good students?

Homeschooling outcomes: How do they compare?
Homeschooling has received high marks…when parents provided structured lessons.

Are homeschooled students good students? When the topic comes up in conversation, people often cite studies showing that homeschoolers score higher on standardized tests.

For instance, Eric Rudner analyzed the test scores of over 20,000 American homeschooled students and found them to be “exceptionally high—the median scores were typically in the 70th to 80th percentile” (Rudner 1999).

That’s impressive, but we have to keep in mind: This wasn’t a random cross-section of homeschoolers. Participants were recruited from a special subset of the homeschooling population — families who subscribed...
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