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2011The thousands of parenting articles here, hand-picked since 2006 from around the world, highlight the importance of parent involvement for the good development of bright and happy children.
Older Mothers at ‘Greater Risk of Depression’ Due to Worrying About Themselves and the Health of their Babies
Anxiety about their own health and that of their babies could leave older mothers open to depression, research suggests. A study of thousands of mothers of children aged five and under found depression rates to be far higher in those aged 40 to 44 than among those who were younger. …
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Who Are You Calling a Mommy Blogger?
I recently wrote about Joanne Bamberger, aka PunditMom, and her observation that many of the women who launched blogs a few years back to chronicle their parenting lives, known commonly as mommy bloggers, have evolved into talented writers with strong political voices. The flip side is that even as the …
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Can Moms with Different Parenting Styles Be Friends?
I knew it was playdate suicide immediately after offering a cookie to a new friend’s organic-only, no-TV son. I was trying to bribe the boys to clean up, but by the look on her face I felt as though I was pushing drugs. “You let him eat that?” she asked. …
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Encourage your Kids to Write
As a researcher in the field of early childhood education, I relish the idea of uncovering how factors in early childhood related to children, families, and schools, connect to children’s academic achievement once they enter school. As a parent, I often find it exasperating. Take for example our recent findings …
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Tweeting a Grown-Up Game for Preschool Students
French preschoolers near Bordeaux are posting daily updates to the micro-blogging website Twitter under their class’ handle, camusmat04, despite not yet knowing how to read or write. Since the start of the school year, the 29 children have posted short messages of 140 characters or less about a daily activity …
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Our Internet Safety Obsession Is Bad for Children
A couple of weeks back it was Safer Internet Day. A whole global day dedicated predominately to keeping children safe online. A big investment, across the globe of time, money, and resources. But to what end? In the week just past the FTC came out with a series of statements expressing concern …
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Looking Ahead, Preschools Add Tech to the Curriculum
Preschool teacher Denise Nelson doesn’t talk much about volcanoes anymore. Or dinosaurs. Instead, she has spent the past six weeks trying to get 20 3- to 5-year-olds in her Head Start classroom at a Worcester preschool to ponder the properties of water. Leaning over water tables, they find out which …
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Our Overindulged Children
I’ve taken away my 16-year-old daughter’s laptop. I’ve confiscated her cellphone. However, I’ve never considered destroying these items to further punish her for not doing her chores, for being disrespectful or for being ungrateful. But that’s what one father did. Tommy Jordan shot his daughter’s laptop — nine times — …
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Warning Over Decline in Map Skills as Ramblers Rely on Sat Navs
Ramblers are getting lost because many no longer have basic map reading skills and rely on smart phones and sat navs, mountain rescuers have warned. For generations, the most essential piece of kit for any rambler tackling Britain’s mountains and moors has been a map. But for modern hikers, it …
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Smart Parenting: Bigger Is Not More
It’s amazing how quickly we get used to something that we had previously thought would be the best thing we’d ever get. Take for instance the television set. Just the other day, my family and I were enjoying a good movie on our relatively new flat screen TV set when …
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