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The number of young children with lead poisoning may be about to more than double
The CDC has unveiled a stringent new standard that's expected to bring the number of children ages 1 to 5 considered to have high blood lead levels from about 200,000 to about 500,000.
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When It Comes to Communication Skills—Maybe We’re Born with It?
From inside the womb and as soon as they enter the world, babies absorb information from their environment and the adults around them, quickly learning after birth how to start communicating through cries, sounds, giggles, and other kinds of baby talk. But are a child’s long-term language skills shaped by how their brain develops during infancy, and how much of their language development is influenced by their environment and upbringing?
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Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds
In the most comprehensive analysis of its kind, scientists find stark differences between children and adults
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Having a go: US parents say Peppa Pig is giving their kids British accents
Parents across the US say their children are acquiring British accents, thanks to Peppa Pig. Linguistic experts have cast doubt on such claims, but some parents insist the “Peppa effect” has their American children saying “mummy” instead of “mommy”, using phrases such as “Give it a go”, and pronouncing tomato “to-mah-to”, not “to-may-to”.
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At Just 16 Months Old, Toddlers Will Reward Someone For Acting Fairly
Although we often think of young children as rather selfish, research has shown that babies and toddlers have a surprisingly strong sense of what is fair. At one year old, kids already expect resources to be divided fairly and for people to be helpful towards others. By two, they themselves tend to distribute resources equally, and would rather play with a fair adult than an unfair one.
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Covid lockdown school closures ‘hit mothers’ mental health but left fathers unaffected’
School closures in England during the Covid lockdown badly damaged the mental health of mothers but had no impact on fathers’ wellbeing, research has found.
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Not so wicked afterall
Although the fairy tale of the wicked stepmother is a tale as old as time, the effects of blending children with their new stepfamilies may not be as grim as once thought. In fact, new research shows that stepchildren are not at a disadvantage compared to their peers from single-parent households and actually experience better outcomes than their halfsiblings — good news for the more than 113 million Americans that are part of a steprelationship.
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Children read more challenging books in lockdowns, data reveals
Report on reading habits of more than one million children also finds they read longer books, particularly during school closures
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Australia Wants to Teach Basic Cybersecurity to 5-Year-Olds
Australia may become one of the first countries to truly buckle down and prioritize teaching children about online safety. Though kids today are digital natives, they aren’t necessarily taught about all of the dangers that lurk in cyberspace. From a young age, children come to understand that iPads and smartphones are great, that Instagram and TikTok are vital parts of their existence, but they aren’t necessarily told about unsafe apps, data privacy or that opening an email attachment from a stranger can ruin your computer. It just isn’t something that gets prioritized in early childhood education.
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What Is Authoritarian Parenting?
Authoritarian parenting is a parenting style characterized by high needs and low responsiveness. Moms and dads having an authoritarian style have relatively high expectations of these kiddies, yet provide hardly any feedback and nurturing. Mistakes are penalized harshly. Whenever feedback occurs, it is negative. Yelling and corporal punishment are also normal within the authoritarian style.
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Growing up in a rough neighbourhood can shape kids' brains, so good parenting and schooling is crucial
Social disadvantage can cause stress that leads to changes in 'connectivity' between brain regions, potentially harming adolescents' ability to plan, set goals, and self-reflect.
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How Children Read Differently From Books vs. Screens
Scrolling may work for social media, but experts say that for school assignments, kids learn better if they slow down their reading.
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How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger. At age 34, Jean Briggs traveled above the Arctic Circle and lived out on the tundra for 17 months. There were no roads, no heating systems, no grocery stores. Winter temperatures could easily dip below minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The Day Children's Literature Died
What happens when the Censor Ship sails up to shore and claims some problematic kids' books? Enjoy this poem and find out.
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I'm an Atheist; How Do I Talk to My Kids About Religion?
When it comes to religion, parents—atheist parents, in particular—may find themselves stumbling to explain to their kids why other families believe in certain things, but we don’t. There are an endless number of “Big Talks” we have with our kids over the course of their childhood, but talks about religion are often steeped in the experiences of our own childhood, which may or may not hang off us like baggage now.
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Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out
Having children will cause you to happier than staying childless, consistent with a replacement study, but not until later in life, once they have flown the nest. A team of researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany found that oldsters tend to be happier than non-parents in adulthood , but this only holds if their kids have removed.
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Is the Western way of raising kids weird?
"Is he in his own room yet?" is a question new parents often field once they emerge from the haze of life with a newborn. But sleeping apart from our babies is a relatively recent development – and not one that extends around the globe. In other cultures sharing a room, and sometimes a bed, with your baby is the norm.
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Lego Braille Bricks come to Australia, helping kids with vision impairment to learn by touch
Kids with vision impairment can learn maths and literacy by touch as Lego Braille Bricks arrive in Australia for the first time.
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Children Are Much Less Likely Than Adults To Prioritise Human Over Animal Lives
“Two boats are sinking and you can save only one. One holds two dogs, the other a person. Which do you save? If you’re not sure, you can say, ‘I can’t decide.’” When I put this to my 11-year-old, his response was immediate: “Save the dogs!” In his defence, he has grown up with a pet dog, which he adores — and, according to a new study in Psychological Science, most other kids would say the same thing.
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Children can improve memory by imagining future tasks
Elementary-aged children often have issues with memory tasks, since they are still developing their cognitive abilities. But new research has determined for the first time that children improved their prospective memory when they were encouraged to both imagine completing tasks ahead of time and predict their performance.
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