Plenty of people judge a woman to be a bad mother if she doesn’t give more of herself to her children than her husband does (iStock) Any adult who has taken a child to a shop will likely have ...

Could children's pester power (the influence kids have over their family’s eating behaviors) be a force for promoting positive and healthy eating behaviors at home? A study by researchers suggests ...

Children's pester power may contribute to improvements in their family environments in terms of their food consumption and parenting practices. Pester power is the influence that children have over ...

News that the Government plans to criminalise “pester power” (MW last week) will no doubt send shockwaves across the marketing community and will disappoint many of us in its failure to recognise the ...

The Government plans to criminalise the advertising industry’s attempts to use “pester power” to snare children, at the insistence of the European Commission. The move, made by the Department for ...

I CAN'T remember the last time I was standing by the sweets at my local Tesco checkout with whining kids and decided to save everyone's eardrums by shutting them up with a couple of Kinder Surprises.

Children's pester power may contribute to improvements in their family's food environments. A new study highlights the potential for children to influence food consumption and habits at home. Children ...

This article was co-authored by Sarah Campbell from the University of Newcastle's School of Psychology. Kathy Chapman is a co-investigator on research projects funded by the Australian Research ...

The association of cartoon characters with HFSS food and drink must end, according to a fresh report out of the UK which has called on parents to share their view on child-friendly marketing. Parents ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When you look at some entrepreneurs, you can almost imagine their childhoods. Staring at frozen windows, ...

Timothy Gill is affiliated with the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society. He receives funding from Cancer Council of Australia, Australian Department of Health and Ageing. Junk food is one of ...

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