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2-Year-Old Boy With Deadly Cancer Gets an Early Christmas From His Neighbors
Five weeks ago, Brody Allen’s parents were told that their 2-year-old son’s rare form of brain cancer meant he had two months to live. The boy’s family realized that he probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy one more Christmas. So they decided to celebrate early, putting up a tree and decorations, and their Ohio neighborhood followed suit. “In his mind it is just Christmas,” said McKenzie Allen, 21, Brody’s sister. “He woke up one day and the Christmas tree was out. He doesn’t know it isn’t really Christmas. He is just enjoying it.”
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Suspending young students risks future success in school
Some kindergartners and first-graders suspended from school can find it challenging to reverse the negative trajectory in their academic life, says a University of Michigan researcher. These young suspended students—especially boys—are likely to be suspended again later in elementary school, according to Zibei Chen, a research fellow at the U-M School of Social Work, and colleagues at Louisiana State University.
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How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race. By Joe Pinsker. (Sept. 4, 2018)
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Bowlby Attachment Theory: How to teach children to love?
Before love, there is satisfaction. Satisfaction is a love seed. From that seed, attachment germinates and love develops. Let me explain … Namely, babies, in the beginning, feel only disturbance and satisfaction. Over time, disturbance develops in anger, disgust and fear. On another side, satisfaction develops in excitement, favour and many other positive emotions among which is love. So, in order for children to love their parents, parents must satisfy their needs while they are helpless babies. On that way, parents develop the attachment of their babies which are crucial for their socio-emotional development.
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Most children in orphanages are not orphans
Millions of children around the world live in orphanages, but child rights experts say most are not orphans. Orphanages have become a lucrative business in developing countries, attracting generous funding. This has led to the trafficking of children to fill them, according to charities Forget Me Not and Lumos. The two charities, which will talk about orphan trafficking at the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Trust Conference in London on Wednesday, are calling for an end to orphanages which they say cause immense harm to children.
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Children mirror weight gain and losses of their mothers but not fathers
Children mirror the weight gain and losses of their mothers but not their fathers, a study has found.
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Lord's Word for Us All Today
My sweet child, I see the pain and heartache, you’ve been going through. I understand how difficult it can be to be living in this world, and not being apart of it. Every day, I faced rejection, heartache, and pain. Why look anyplace else, when I’m living right within you? I don’t want part of your heart,
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Parenting satire: dad makes bottle of formula milk at correct temperature, with right number of scoops
A Welsh father has put himself in pole position to be named Dad of the Year by making a bottle of formula milk at the correct temperature, with the right nu
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Female chief in Malawi breaks up 850 child marriages and sends girls back to school
Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over close to 900,000 people… and she’s not afraid to use her authority to help the women and girls in her district. In the past three years, she has annulled more than 850 child marriages, sent hundreds of young women back to school to continue their education, and made strides to abolish cleansing rituals that require girls as young as seven to go to sexual initiation camps.
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Ways to Protect your Kids from Cyberbullying - Activity Bucket
This article explains what is cyberbullying, how it can affect a child and tips to protect Kids from cyberbullying
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Young Trans Children Know Who They Are
Since 2013, Kristina Olson, a psychologist at the University of Washington, has been running a large, long-term study to track the health and well-being of transgender children—those who identify as a different gender from the one they were assigned at birth. Since the study’s launch, Olson has also heard from the parents of gender-nonconforming kids, who consistently defy gender stereotypes but have not socially transitioned.
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10-year-old proves Tom Brady is a cheater, wins science fair
The science is ironclad: Tom Brady is a cheater, according to a 10-year-old’s fair-winning project. Ace Davis, who attends Millcreek Elementary in Lexington, Ky., wanted to do something different for his experiment. With the help of his mom and his sister, Davis set out to prove Brady and the New England Patriots cheated by conspiring to deflate footballs during the AFC Championship in the 2014-15 season.
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More screen time for toddlers is tied to poorer development a few years later, study says
Among toddlers, spending a lot of time staring at screens is linked with poorer performance on developmental screening tests later in childhood, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, found a direct association between screen time at ages 2 and 3 and development at 3 and 5. Development includes growth in communication, motor skills, problem-solving and personal social skills, based on a screening tool called the Ages and Stages Questionnaire.
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Structured play helps toddlers self-regulate, altering their life course
Through simple games and day-to-day tasks, parents can help their children learn self-regulation, a skill considered essential for success, a University of Otago study has found. Lead author Dr Dione Healey, of the Department of Psychology, says self-regulation is a key early developmental skill that predicts a wide array of life outcomes. “Self-regulation is essential for school readiness and success as you need to be able to sit still, not blurt out answers, persist with tasks, manage frustrations, and give and take in social relationships.
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Superpower Glass Improves Socialization in Children with Autism
Augmented reality digital therapy solutions can be an effective way to improve the social behavior of children with autism spectrum disorder, according to a new study published in JAMA Network. Children who wore the Superpower Glass wearable technology, deployed via Google Glass, show significant improvements on the Vineland Adaptive Behaviors Scale socialization subscale compared with treatment as usual controls.
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Children's joy at seeing dolls like them
A former social worker noticed that some children could not buy dolls that look like them. So she fixed that.
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Care.com pulls nearly 47,000 daycare listings following report
Care.com is considered the go-to site for caregivers in the US, but it just faced a serious shakeup. The company has confirmed that it took down 46,594 daycare center listings (45 percent of the listings in its database) after a Wall Street Journal report found that hundreds of listings weren't actually state licensed as claimed. Some falsely claimed their licenses, while others either didn't exist or didn't know they were on the site in the first place.
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Make your kids experience the 9 to 5 job
Have you ever thought about how to induce your child the mindset of a successful man? Or explain the difference of thinking between the rich and the poor? If you ever decide to do this, you will have to fight with your child’s lack of experience - he has never been poor and does not know what that actually means. And this could be a big challenge!.
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Study finds that children raised without religion show more empathy and kindness
A study conducted by the University of Chicago has found that children raised in non-religious households are kinder and more altruistic than those raised with religion. The study which was published in the journal Current Biology looked at 1170 children between the ages of 5 and 12 years in six countries (Canada, China, Jordan, Turkey, USA, and South Africa) and examined “the religiousness of their household, and parent-reported child empathy and sensitivity to justice.”
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Children who nap midday are happier, excel academically, and have fewer behavioral problems | Penn Today
A Penn study of nearly 3,000 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders in China revealed strong connections between 30 to 60 minutes of shuteye at least three days a week and positive outcomes in a handful of areas.
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