When the bestselling authors of two very different books on motherhood met, the claws were out. But, as discovers, the notorious Amy Chua can be a pussycat. What is the most provocative headline you can think of? The Wall Street Journal came close in January last year when it ran a … [Continue reading ]
About the ChildUp Parenting Articles Blog
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.
Five Mistakes my Parents Made That I’m Not Repeating
Can anyone say their parents were perfect? OK, those of you who raised your hands may now Google the word “denial.” For the rest of us, of course our parents made mistakes. It’s as normal as… as not being there when I came home from my first two-week, sleep-away camp … [Continue reading ]
Gender-Neutral Parenting: Nutty or Nice?
The news that the parents of a five-year-old boy had brought him up a “gender neutral” prompted at least two British newspapers to run columns on the issue – one for such a parenting strategy and one against. Here are both those columns: Against: the Daily Mail’s Malanie Phillips says: … [Continue reading ]
Science Magazine Honors Method That Teaches Essence of Experimentation
Explorations in Physics brings inquiry experience to students who are not physics majors. Priscilla Laws’ love of learning almost came to an abrupt end very early on—when she left kindergarten, where learning was by doing, and entered first grade, where learning was rote. “They promoted me to first grade, and … [Continue reading ]
CHILDUP BESTOF: Experts Say Math Preparation Should Begin in Preschool
Education leaders in California are turning their sights to making sure students have a strong foundation in mathematics when they enter kindergarten. And that means introducing students to math in preschool. Preschool math was the focus of a meeting of leading educators and researchers from around the state at Stanford University … [Continue reading ]
Fair Play Comes Early for Babies, Study Suggests
Parents often feel it’s their responsibility to teach children fairness, but studies are illustrating that children instinctively grasp social rules and fair play. Toddlers as young as 19-months-old expected fair play and expressed concern when that didn’t happen in a study conducted by child psychologists at the University of Illinois … [Continue reading ]
Applied Neuroscience, the Six-String Method – “Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning”
At 13, an age when most boys want to learn the guitar, Gary Marcus, decided he wanted to be a scientist. Twenty-five years later he had become one of the country’s best known cognitive psychologists, with major papers and three general-interest books on the workings of the human mind and … [Continue reading ]
Childhood Obesity Rates Leveling Off
The latest data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey show that the overall prevalence of obesity in children may be leveling off at about 17%, in contrast to the rapid increases seen in the 1980s and 1990s. Another study showed that availability of junk foods had little effect … [Continue reading ]
Spotting Dyslexia Before a Child Starts School
Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children’s Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, … [Continue reading ]
Babies Are Born with ‘Intuitive Physics’ Knowledge, says MU researcher
While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of “intuitive physics.” “In the MU Developmental Cognition Lab, we study infant knowledge of the world by measuring a … [Continue reading ]
PARENTING ARTICLES CATEGORIES
- Home
- About ChildUp
- Contact ChildUp
- Parenting Articles
- Register
- Terms and Conditions of Use
- Privacy Policy
- Site Map
