backpacks

One New Jersey chiropractor offers parents backpack tips and advice on the type to get, and how to properly pack it.

A child's backpack should weigh no more than 10 percent of his or her total body weight or injuries may occur, says one New Jersey chiropractor.

Are we to add bulletproof backpacks to our BTS shopping lists this year and kid ourselves that it’s all we need to do?

For the fourth year, the United Service Organizations of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey will partner with a local mortgage company as both groups join a national program to ease financial burdens on military families.

Picking out a new backpack can be one of the more exciting parts of returning to school. Unfortunately, many of these backpacks will be jammed with heavy books throughout the school year.

It's just a few weeks before kids start carrying around backpacks stuffed to the brim with notebooks, textbooks and even a laptop or tablet. But all that weight being carried around can be a threat to kids' backs.

Back to school time means backpacks will be stuffed to the brim with textbooks, notebooks, and even a laptop or tablet. However all that weight being carted around by kids can result in significant danger to young backs and spines.