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Less goo-goo-gah-gah and more plain English may pave the way for your baby to communicate sooner.
A lot of people might look at the anti-vax folks and wonder why it matters if those folks don’t get their kids vaccinated. If their kids get sick because they aren’t protected, it’s no skin off anyone else’s nose, right? Wrong. A new study shows exactly the opposite: vaccinating kids protects the entire community.
My daughter claims that she’s not left-handed; she says she’s “both-handed”. It’s not true, of course; she’s primarily left-handed. But if she were ambidextrous, according to a new study, she would be more likely to have mental health problems, language difficulties, and other academic issues. In addition, ambidextrous teens are twice as likely to have attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their right-handed peers and more severe as well. So, does that mean my daughter is going to be okay?
If you’re worried about the hours your teen spends updating their Facebook page and checking out their friends’ statuses, you may be fretting over nothing. Two studies, one at the University of New Hampshire and the other at Northwestern University, failed to show a “robust negative relationship between grade point averages and use of Facebook.” But wait, there’s more! An Ohio State University study from last year found the opposite, with students who used Facebook several times a day had a GPA a full letter grade lower than students who did use the service. So which study is correct?
Many parents choose home-based day care over larger day care centers because they feel it offers a more personal experience for their child. But according to a new study out of the University of Washington, the home-based day care experience might be a little too much like home for some kids. In much the same way parents sometimes use television as an electronic babysitter, the study found that a surprising number of home-based day care centers do, too. Continue reading »
We’re all bombarded with studies, every day, that tell us this thing or that about children’s behavior and our effect, as parents, on what they do. A new book by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman called NurtureShock sifts through all the conventional wisdom out there and looks at the social science behind it.
Some of the findings are pretty interesting – for example, Continue reading »
Sorry Mom and Dad, but it looks like “green baby” is a oxymoron. Yes, you may have made sacrifices to be kinder to mother earth with all your cutting down on electricity, wearing vegan shoes and investing in that top of the line Prius, but that little bundle of joy of yours? It totally offsets all that carbon good you’ve been doing. But perhaps that’s been your point the whole time. Maybe you’ve gone green so you Continue reading »
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