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U. S. researchers have said that girls and teens who are easy to supervise and teens with better educated parents tend to have more decision-making autonomy than others.

They tracked about 200 white European-American families over a nine-year period, the Pennsylvania State University researchers have said. It was reported by the parents that who made decisions in their children's lives,
including chores, appearance, curfew/bedtime, health, schoolwork, social life, activities and money.

Parents should stick to chocolate bunnies, ducks and chicks for Easter, rather than live ones, to avoid bringing animal diseases into the house, Veterinarians have suggested.

The Wisconsin State Journal has reported that the animals, however cute they are, can carry bacteria, the Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association has warned.

The association said, "Each spring, children become infected with Salmonella after receiving a baby chick or duckling for Easter."

Fast-food may make, those exposed to it, impatient and less willing to save money, Canadian researchers have suggested.

Merely flashing a fast-food logo for milliseconds on a computer screen caused study participants vs. controls, to increase reading speed although there was no advantage to finishing sooner, Chen-Bo Zhong and Sanford DeVoe of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management say.

Teleconferencing may help provide therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, a Canadian researcher has suggested.

17 post-traumatic stress victims in a rural area were made to undergo 16-25 sessions of tele-therapy, therapy via teleconferencing, with Montreal therapists by Stephane Guay of the University of Montreal.

A control group of PSTD patients received face-to-face therapy. Both groups had 75 percent to 80 percent of their members overcoming their chronic post-traumatic stress.

Even toddlers notice and could reward good intentions, Canadian researchers have found.

Children as young as 21 months old selectively helped the person who had shown good intent, found Kristen Dunfield and Valerie Kuhlmeier of Queen's University in Kingston.

Dunfield and Kuhlmeier said in a statement, "Some of the characteristics of the rich reciprocal relationships observed in adults are in place in infancy."

Tel Aviv University researchers have found that a study of 20,000 men ages 18-21 in the Israeli army found those who smoked tended to have a lower IQ.

Young male smokers are more likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers, Mark Weiser of the university's department of psychiatry and the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital found.

It was also found by the study that in the case where one twin smoked, the non-smoking twin tested at a higher intelligence level.