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• Ontology Recapitulates Phylogeny: Observing my 21-year-old daughter and 21-month-old grandson

  
  Addiction in Society — Authority: 108
  I play a minor role, next to my daughter herself and my grandsons parents, in influencing their development. But I observe their developmental issues. Issue               Cash (21 months)        Anna (21 years) Movement        Climbing bars               Walking New York ...
  19 hours ago

• Michelle Obama on Sesame Street for 40th anniversary

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 154
  arms and adds, "Just like me." Sesame Street was started in 1969 with grants from the Carnegie Institute and the federal government, with the goal of using the latest knowledge of child development, psychology, TV innovations and preschool education to
  20 hours ago

• Michelle Obama to star on Sesame Street for 40th anniversary

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Los Angeles, Nov 10 (DPA) Landmark children’s television show Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary Tuesday with a special guest: First Lady Michelle Obama is set to appear on the programme and will tout the benefits of fresh and healthy food.Obama plants a mini vegetable garden on the show, to mirror ...
  1 day ago

• Interesting facts about video games – in-game advertising

  
  DIYFather.com - It's great to be a dad! — Authority: 125
  Kids and video games – a match made in heaven? As dads we’re often faced with having to decide whether to: 1) Get our kids a video console in the first place (and if yes – which one!) 2) How long they get to play on it 3) Which games are appropriate There is an ongoing debate about the first two – see our ...
  1 day ago

• How Absent Parents Impact Brain Development

  
  The United Families International Blog — Authority: 430
  A fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago showed that the absence of a father could have a very real impact on the brain development of children. German biologist Anna Katharina has been studying the brain development of animals typically raised by two-parents when raised by a single ...
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• Moral Adults: Moral Children

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
   In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "The Old Grandfather and the Grandson," a young married couple has grown tired of the husbands father, who lives with them, and who has become increasingly feeble. They stop inviting him to the dinner table and begin feeding him small portions from a dishpan. One day they watch ...
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• 10 Online Games To Practice Sight (Magic) Words

  
  Planning With Kids — Authority: 420
  In a previous post I wrote about 10 Resources On Children’s Literacy . They were resources on the web that I have used for ideas, strategies and to educate myself in the area of children’s literacy. Today’s post lists online games that my children have used to help them master their sight words (also known ...
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• Online Child Development Degrees

  
  Top Colleges Blog — Authority: 441
  Do you enjoy working with young children? Are you interested in helping to prepare them academically and socially for their future? If so, you might want to consider pursuing an online childhood development degree.After earning an online child development degree, you will be qualified to work as a daycare worker or ...
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• Learning Right From Wrong: How Does Morality Develop?

  
  Child Myths — Authority: 98
  "That child is so bad! He needs somebody to teach him right from wrong." An adult who says this usually really means that he or she would like someone to scold or spank that annoying child. "Teaching" is so often assumed to mean punishing a child for undesirable behavior, and "knowing right from wrong" seems to ...
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• More Than Genes III: The Fetus, Toxic Chemicals, and Autism

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  The human calamity we call autism has been underplayed by the media. The usual portrayal of autistic behavior in films and books is useful to increase public awareness, but such portrayals are almost always of relatively mild cases. Here are some elements of an actual case diagnosed as severe autism in a Nigerian boy ...
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• International NGO Battles Malaria in Oil Rich Niger Delta’s Rural Communities

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  As Nigeria grapples with high deaths caused by malaria, an NGO, the International Centre for Women Empowerment and Child Development (ICWECD) has taken the battle against the disease to 200 rural communities in oil rich Delta State where malaria has become highly prevalent. ICWECD Executive Director, Bridget ...
  2 days ago

• A sense of autonomy is a primary reward or threat for the brain

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  This is the fourth in a series of five posts about the big drivers of threat and reward in the brain. So far I have posted about status , certainty and relatedness . This week lets explore the issue of autonomy. Autonomy is a feeling of having choices. This feeling turns out to be deeply upsetting when taken away ...
  2 days ago

• Creative Kids (Part 2): 7 Ways to Teach Flow

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  In my previous post , I shared why its a good idea to help kids learn to enter a flow state more often. Here is the how : 7 tips for helping your (or any) child get the benefits of entering and staying longer in the flow zone: 1. DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF FLOW. Learn the signs of flow (one way is to keep ...
  2 days ago

• 17 Ways Kids Manipulate Us and How This Book Can Help

  
  Family Man Blog — Authority: 108
  A few years ago, I sought the counsel of Dr. David Swanson when my wife and I needed more help with managing our parenting challenges. Swanson was down-to-earth, non-judgmental, and incredibly direct in his advice, which we use to this day. Now, any parent can access Swanson’s insights by reading his new book, ...
  2 days ago

• What Does it Mean to Say "Well Adapt" to Big Cities and to Little Nature?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  A reader posted the following response to an earlier discussion of mine [click here ]. He said, "We cant turn back time, we need to adapt." But adaptation is many things. Sometimes when we adapt its good for us - biologically and psychologically. And sometimes its bad for us. Id like to discuss different types ...
  2 days ago

• Introducing a newborn to a dog -- or a dog to a newborn

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Nine weeks ago I left the house one day and returned the next with our newborn son. From our young dogs point of view, this was a very surprising occurrence. Though I had been pregnant for forty-one weeks, our pup had seemed unaffected by the gradual change in my body and behavior -- and the presumably immediate ...
  2 days ago

• THE “BANE” OF SELF-RELIANCE?

  
  It Must Be the Vapors — Authority: 121
  A post over at Thoughtstreaming was in its usual process of describing what I must assume is the “opposition”, which any blog espousing a political ideology authored by names like Troutsky and Che Bob must, of necessity, have, when along comes this sentence, “ Individual as opposed to collective rights and a ...
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• Why Mike Tyson Is Not A Serial Killer

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Lets look at the construct of the serial killer persona for a moment. We carve nature at its joints and come to a conclusion that this persona is encapsulated by that sort of foreign and frightening aura carried by that individual who seems to not care, to not feel remorse, to not respond to reason. This is the kind ...
  3 days ago

• In The Aftermath Of The Fort Hood Mass Shooting, A troubling Message

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  There is a ubiquitous message we send to youths, over the ownership and use of guns in our society. That message is an eye for an eye. In the aftermath of the Fort Hood mass shooting , a lot of emphasis has being placed on the shooters religion and his unhappiness about receiving orders to be deployed. Heres the ...
  3 days ago

• Parental discipline key factor in giving children best start says think tank

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Parents who discipline their children are giving their offspring the best chance in life according to a report by Demos the progressive thinktank.
  3 days ago

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