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• Why Teens Care So Much About Clothes

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  “We place kids in schools together with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of other kids typically from similar economic and cultural backgrounds. We group them all within a year or so of one another in age. We equip them with similar gadgets, expose them to the same TV shows, lessons, and sports. We ask them all to ...
  15 hours ago

• The Meaning of Dreams and Do Dreams have Meaning

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  One of my morning patients on Tuesday reported a dream in which three approaches to solving a problem were portrayed-one avoidant, one excessively aggressive, and the third a strong but tempered and effective response. Of course the dream itself, as dreams do, conveyed these ideas with vivid images and a rather ...
  1 day ago

• Don’t Blame it on the Hormones

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  As I’ve been touring the country, whenever I discuss the science of adolescent behavior, audiences have often asked why I never mention the role of hormones. Ahh … hormones. In a typically-developing child, it starts with the adrenal glands, which begin increasing the secretion of androgens. These become the ...
  2 days ago

• Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbines Dave Cullen

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  Today, like many other Americans, Po and I have been thinking about the tragedy at Ft. Hood – and how it brings back the memory of similar events such as the massacre at Columbine. But that raises a question: while the events feel similar, are they actually? It was a question I directed to Dave Cullen . Dave was a ...
  5 days ago

• Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  Here’s a Twilight Zone-type premise for you. What if surgeons never got to work on humans, they were instead just endlessly in training, cutting up cadavers? What if the same went for all adults – we only got to practice at simulated versions of our jobs? Lawyers only got to argue mock cases, for years and years. ...
  6 days ago

• Responses to Post on US School Kids Doing Better

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  On Monday, I wrote a post http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/02/why-us-school-kids-are-doing-better-than-ever-but-you-never-hear-it/comments.aspx that argued that the constant focus on the failures of American school system is misplaced. Because there are many indicators that success, not ...
  1 week ago

• Revvell interviews RawDawg Rory

  
  Rawkin Radio — Authority: 98
  Hey everyone! My name is Rory and Irsquo;m a former CT native, born and grew up in West Haven. I moved to PA to do an organic farming internship at the Fulton Center for Sustainable Living where I not only learned a lot of the hands on experience of farming but I also met the girl of my dreams! Not a bad deal eh? I ...
  1 week ago

• Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Matt Frei for BBC News on this first anniversary of the historic election:The old saying that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose was only partially true for Obama.By late summer of 2008, he had already switched to prose. The cautious and calculating pragmatist who now runs this country was beginning to unpeel ...
  1 week ago

• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
  1 week ago

• See Google This Morning and Smile!

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 124
  Then call any handy family members over to share the smile.I just did. Posted in Arts, Creative Class, Early Childhood Issues, Family Values, Health, home, Humor, learning, Literacy, Movies/TV, Nature-nurture, Parent Involvement, Photography, Play, Power of Story, School versus Education, Socialization, Thinking ...
  1 week ago

• Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made

  
  Bigg Success — Authority: 124
  It’s another age-old nature / nurture question – are entrepreneurs born or are they made? Can the essential skills be taught or do you have to learn from experience? ___ ___ There’s a great book by Richard Goossen called Entrepreneurial Excellence: Profit From the Best Ideas of the Experts . He’s ...
  1 week ago

• Can Happiness and Parenting Coexist?

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  A new analysis from the UK, just published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, concludes that kids make married couples happier. The first child only barely improves happiness, but the second child takes married parents to a new level of bliss. A third child makes them even happier. The curious thing is why this ...
  1 week ago

• Nothing Is More Important For Kids Than a Healthy Consistent Environment

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 128
  I heard Po Bronson with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air ( For Parents, The Return of Tough Love? ) back at the end of September and I keep thinking about it. Today, I’ve got some time to cover it. Bronson and co-author Ashley Merriman do something to which I’m very partial. They go back to the research look, ...
  1 week ago

• US School Kids Are Doing Better Than Ever – But You Never Hear It

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  There is a constant drumbeat heard that Americas education system is failing the nations children. Everywhere we turn around, you hear that traditional public schools in shambles; the teachers are failing and so are the kids scores. (The only saving grace seeming to be charter schools, which operate outside of the ...
  1 week ago

• On Becoming Great

  
  The Rat Race Trap — Authority: 505
  In the last several years something called deliberate practice has gotten a lot of press.  The 10,000 hour rule and the ten year rule have become part of our lexicon.  Here is a link to a video by Malcolm Gladwell on genius that is related but not exactly the same thing being described in this article.  I’m ...
  1 week ago

• Why Tarantulas Can Seem So Scary

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  http://flickr.com/photos/scragz/ / CC BY 2.0 It’s not every day that social scientists use tarantulas in their experiments. Professor Kent Harber brought unwitting Rutgers students into his lab. They were escorted into a semi-darkened room and asked to stand right in front of a table. Then the lights snapped ...
  1 week ago

• What can we do? (or) what we can do?

  
  the light shines the brightest — Authority: 112
  I feel quirky and verbose enough to write something. Of course I am never the one to face a dearth of words, but posting does take some effort- like making your head think about one thing. If only it was like those good old days, where I wrote a post or two a day. Maybe [...]
  1 week ago

• The power of other people’s opinions or bias

  
  Luigicappel's Weblog — Authority: 98
  I had the opportunity to attend the Time Convention in Auckland, New Zealand today, which was a great opportunity to step out of my normal day and have time to think. I didn’t learn much, but it did remind me about things I know I should be doing, but don’t spend enough time at. I used my Blackberry to take ...
  1 week ago

• Can Women Be Creative Scientists? The Dangers of Testing for Creative Ability

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Is creativity an inborn personality trait or a set of learned skills? The answer determines whether we test for intrinsic talent or teach creative skills. Current research on screening for scientific creativity suggests why getting the answer right is critical to the future of women in science. Many psychologists ...
  1 week ago

• Is the Candy Witch Coming to Your House?

  
  Newsweek Blogs — Authority: 731
  When I was a kid, I wondered why the legend of The Great Pumpkin never caught on. Halloween was my favorite holiday, even though you didn’t get the day off. It seemed like Halloween ought to have its own mystical being, like Christmas had Santa Claus and Easter had the Easter Bunny. I suppose Halloween had ghosts ...
  1 week ago

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