Opening up school sports facilities would give every child a healthy summer

The fitness of children from low-income familes suffers in the holidays, say former sports stars Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lawrence Dallaglio

WHO warnings over children’s screen time disputed by UK experts

Paediatricians say latest guidelines on TV, bedtimes and play based on poor evidence

Forget their future – worry about what your kids are doing now

By focusing on the type of adults we want our children to become we ignore the quality of their experience as kids, now

Social media addiction is not natural or normal – but is it really a disease?

We should be focusing on living with Facebook et al, rather then abandoning, restricting or censoring it, says technology writer Roisin Kiberd

Children’s meals in pubs and fast food chains ‘getting saltier’

Action on Salt study calls for traffic light labelling to help parents pick healthier options

Bedtime social media use may be harming UK teenagers, study says

Exclusive: a fifth of 13- to 15-year-olds ‘spend five hours or more a day on social media’

A lifetime of sleep, from birth to menopause and beyond

Babies wake at any hour, teenagers refuse to get out of bed, older adults find a good night’s rest harder to achieve. Why do our sleep patterns shift with age?

Adventure playgrounds ‘too risky’ to insure

England children’s commissioner and London mayor raise concerns after leading firm refuses to cover some playgrounds

Minister rejects call for blanket ban on mobile phones in schools

Education secretary Damian Hinds says decision should be left up to individual headteachers

If you want children to eat vegetables, don’t tell them they’re evil

The TV ad campaign that casts veggies as villains may be fun, but there are better ways to encourage kids to eat healthily

Is jam coming to a sticky end?

Health worries are damaging the sales of sugary spreads, but this doesn’t have to be the end of the preserve

Schoolchildren to be offered sleep lessons after rise in disorders

Move follows concerns about ‘hidden health disaster’ of sleeplessness among young

This womb transplant breakthrough could open up pregnancy to all sexes

The live birth of a baby girl in São Paulo is a medical advance that may change the definition of motherhood, says science writer Philip Ball

Kids always want to stay up late. But what’s the optimum time for them – and you – to go to bed?

More than half of parents say bedtime is the single most stressful time of the day, yet research on when children should go to bed is poor. One expert explodes the myths

Type 2 diabetes now affects nearly 7,000 young Britons

New figures reveal huge rise in children and young people with diabetes linked to obesity