Eating disorders in children and teens are serious mental health issues, often misunderstood as phases. Early detection, psychological support, family involvement, and holistic treatment are essential for lasting recovery and emotional healing.
Travelling with children becomes easier as they grow, with unique challenges at each stage. For infants, manage ear pain with milk during takeoff/landing, while toddlers need snacks, entertainment, and comfort items. Older kids can enjoy books, games, and in-flight entertainment.
Body shaming in Bangladeshi families harms children’s self-esteem, causing anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. Experts stress parental support, respectful dialogue, and stopping harmful comments to foster positive body image and protect children’s mental health.
Dealing with picky eaters can frustrate any parent, but understanding food aversions, changing tastes, and limited preferences helps. Discover smart, stress-free strategies to build healthy eating habits and ensure your child gets proper nutrition.
Travelling with children can be enjoyable with careful planning. Start early to expose them to new experiences, choose family-friendly destinations, pack smart, and maintain routines. Include downtime, consider hiring help, and keep trips short for smoother adventures.
Zakat can transform lives by supporting underprivileged children in education, healthcare, and nutrition. Proper distribution of funds through trusted organizations can bridge the gap, offering a better future and long-term societal benefits.
Toys play a crucial role in enriching children’s activity and fostering developmental growth.
Bangladesh's ECD landscape is one of collective efforts.
Parents often worry when their child's speech seems to deviate from typical patterns. In this article, we will explore common parental concerns about speech development, with insights from Toukir Rahman Dhruvo, a seasoned Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist from Shono Bangladesh.
Mothers nowadays are trying to do it all — work and parenting — with a schedule that seems to get busier every day. With sleepless nights, an early work routine, pumping schedules, school events, work deadlines, and the need to provide quality time to children, mothers have their hands (and arms and legs) full. Mental and physical exhaustion, also known as mum burnout, can lead to dire consequences not just for them, but for children too
Raising your hand or voice, for that matter, on a child simply because they are weak and younger than you in age, is an act of cowardice on the part of the parent. Some fantastic and in-depth research has been done in this field. Psychologists and paediatricians both agree that physical abuse is extremely harmful for a child, having both physiological and mental consequences. Abuse comes in many forms and what is equally surprising is that a lot of parents have no idea that many of their actions can count as abuse.
Our relationships and how we navigate them keep evolving with the times. Often, we find questions or worries so personal that they can only be shared with a stranger, but any random stranger is no real solace! Nor is the advice safe. With that in mind, Star Lifestyle brings to you a brand-new relationship advice column from certified experts. This hopes to tackle the host of worries, questions and forks in roads of the relationships plane that includes the personal, professional to psychological.
BabyTube is an app similar to YouTube, where anybody can upload content based on interest. However, a strict monitoring policy is followed whereby, harmful content or anything that is degrading to the mental health of children are not allowed on the platform. There are many categories in the app for young minds to enjoy, from sports to educational content, to movies, travel information and even music and games.
Our relationships and how we navigate them keep evolving with the times. Often, we find questions or worries so personal that they can only be shared with a stranger, but any random stranger is no real solace! Nor is the advice safe. With that in mind, Star Lifestyle brings to you a brand-new relationship advice column from certified experts. This hopes to tackle the host of worries, questions and forks in roads of the relationships plane that includes the personal, professional to psychological.
I became fully aware of the environmental challenges that we face when I visited Boracay Island in the Philippines a few years ago. The amazing picturesque beaches with white sand and blue lagoons were disturbed by the over-interest of tourists like me.
Your parents ask for you at their hour of need, how do you respond?
Money and managing finances are a very important part of adulthood, and more often than not, good money habits start from a young age.
Covid-19 vaccination campaign to inoculate children aged between 5 and 12 will begin from June this year, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday (April 29, 2022).
Every morning the hustle of going to work and thinking of their little munchkins all day long often urges working parents to find a suitable daycare nearby. Here is a list of some of the daycare centres in Dhaka that you may be interested in checking out, depending on your location.
