Tag: kids
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Attachment v. Abuse
Read more: Attachment v. AbuseA ScienceDaily write-up of baby rat study–Abusive mothering aggravates the impact of stress hormones. “Our work shows that, while the infant brain is wired to form attachments at all costs, abusive attachments have negative consequences in social behavior development.”
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What Babies Know
Read more: What Babies KnowStudy at ScienceDaily: Babies Grasp Number, Space and Time Concepts. “We’ve shown that 9-month-olds are sensitive to ‘more than’ or ‘less than’ relations across the number, size and duration of objects. And what’s really remarkable is they only need experience with one of these quantitative concepts in order to guess what the other quantities should…
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Married With (or Without) Children
Read more: Married With (or Without) ChildrenA survey reported on the Well blog shows fidelity as criteria #1 for a happy marriage. But what about children? As an ingredient to a happy marriage, kids were far from essential, ranking eighth behind good sex, sharing chores, adequate income and a nice house, among other things. Only 41 percent of respondents said children…
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Mind in the Making
Read more: Mind in the MakingIn U.S. News: A brief interview with author Ellen Galinsky. Her new book, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, includes hundreds of simple ways that parents can use games and activities to promote the development of life skills in children. What are the seven skills? Here’s her list: Focus and…
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Empathy Endangered?
Read more: Empathy Endangered?Headline: Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000. Without unstructured free time with playmates, children simply don’t get to know each other very well. And you can’t learn to connect and care if you don’t practice these things. Free play declined by at least a third between 1981 and 2003–right when the kids…