Read more! Not sitting somewhere in a quiet place and drinking coffee a la Hemingway, but in your children’s bedroom when kids make cozy nests in their beds, after a day full of games… Don’t you know why?
As The Guardian writes, researchers from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) in the U.K. are following about 19,000 children from infancy to school. This longitudinal survey has brought many interesting results this year.
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As spring nears closer, American First Lady Michelle Obama has launched the Let’s Move! campaign. The campaign, as proclaimed on the Let’s Move! site, has a goal “to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.”
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Guess in which EU capital the quietest children live? Not long ago it used to be Berlin. The reason for kids’ quietness was neither their character nor their parents, but the law. The situation was changed only this month. “Children in the German capital Berlin are to be exempt from strict laws on noise pollution,” the BBC writes.
Do you know your kids’ favorite TV show or movie? Or their favorite actors, musicians, books…? Look at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2010 nominees and you’ll see the stars that shine in your children’s world.
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The younger you are, the more receptive you are. That’s why children are easily influenced by any kind of books, films or games they encounter, no matter the genre or when it was created. And now it’s time to look through the things which contribute to kids’ identity.
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Is your child so talkative that his or her voice rings in your ears even when you sleep? Do teachers beg you to do something to make him or her quiet as a lamb? There’s no need to get on your kid’s case (we don’t think that’s a game you can win). Play it safe, just help them start chatting in a useful way! Take, for example, T-Bone Productions in North Carolina (USA).
“Online radio show lets kids be the DJs,” writes CITIZEN-TIMES.com.
If English is not the only language that your child speaks, be ready if he or she understands more than you expect. “Bilingualism accentuates children’s conversational understanding”: this aspect of cross-cultural interaction was noticed in research conducted by M. Siegal (University of Sheffield, UK) and his colleagues from Italy, the U.K. and Japan.
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If you have found your child in front of a monitor when he or she is supposed to be doing homework, don’t hurry to switch the computer off. Because your child might be doing exactly the things you wanted him or her to be doing! “A study carried out in the UK for technology company Microsoft showed 37% of secondary pupils used computers for study every day at home,” the BBC reports.
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Learning in elementary school today isn’t limited to math, history or the fine arts: music is an important component as well. Not only because of its aesthetic and cultural value, but as a way to improve students’ behavior as well as their motivation, concentration, ability to work in teams and self-expression skills. “Music ‘can boost wider learning,’” according to the BBC, quoting a new report commissioned by the Federation of Music Services (UK).
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