Researchers have found that parents of young children who anger easily and over-react are more likely to have toddlers who act out and become upset easily. The research is an important step in understanding the complex link between genetics and home environment. In the study, researchers from Oregon State University, …
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Over-Reactive Parenting Linked to Negative Emotions and Problem Behavior in Toddlers
TXT BAD 4 UR BRAIN? Text Messaging Can Dent your Reading Abilities, Say Scientists
Frequent text messaging may stunt reading skills, according to new research compariing text users with people who preferred to read newspapers and books. Researchers found that heavy texters were less able to understand new words – and less willing to accept them. People who read ‘traditional’ printed language such as …
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Brain Scans Might Spot Autism as Early as 6 Months of Age
Preliminary study says communication links in brain drop off before symptoms appear. In children as young as 6 months old, changes in the brain that can lead to autism spectrum disorder may have already begun, preliminary research suggests. Although early signs of autism, such as problems communicating and repetitive behaviors, can …
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Are ‘American’ Parents Really That Bad?
I am a skeptic by nature. I’m that annoying friend who responds to your forwarded email about the most UNBELIEVABLE news not with a WOW, but with a series of links to Snopes and Urbanlegend.com, to show you how gullible you are. Yet yesterday I spent part of my morning trying to …
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How to Stop your Kids from Stressing
There is a good chance that my children (and yours) are stressed out on a daily basis. Not necessarily from catastrophic burdens such as death, abuse or abandonment (though far too many children are dealing with those as well), but from the slow boil of everyday anxieties – a swell of …
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Puzzle Play Improves Math Skills
First study to examine puzzle play in a naturalistic setting reveals surprising results about girls and boys. An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago. Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently conducted a study that found 2-4 year-old children, who …
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Mommy Track: Why Women Leave Science, Math Careers
The pressures of running an academic lab and spending late-nights writing grant proposals make the choice between motherhood and having a career in science tough. Even after getting advanced degrees in science and math, many women drop out of research careers primarily because they want children, finds a new study. …
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Why Italian Moms Are the Best
Never mind the tough love and bring on the manicotti. There’s been a lot of talk recently about which ethnic group produces the best mothers. Yale professor Amy Chua caused a big stir last year when she laid out her take-no-prisoners parenting style in her book “Battle Hymn of the …
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Children Are Being ‘Failed on a Grand Scale’
Children are being ‘failed on a grand scale’, due to poor standards of literacy and huge inequalities which have left Britain lagging behind other European countries when we should be number one, the author of a landmark report claims. Prof Sir Michael Marmot, on the second anniversary of his major …
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Financial Illiteracy and Lack of Numeracy Widespread In America
A huge swathe of the American population are illiterate with respect to their finances and lack basic skills in dealing with numbers, a highly respected econ0mic think-tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. concluded in a recent working paper by Annamaria Lusardi. The National Bureau of Economic Research …
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