Recently we mentioned that “38 percent of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile,” quoting St. Louis Today. The previous week we found in The Guardian an article entitled “Quarter of eight-to-12-year-olds on Facebook, MySpace or Bebo” with more information about how children behave online.
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Returning to the subject of the development of abilities in young kids, we asked ourselves: do kids have a congenital inclination towards music?
“New research shows babies are born to dance,” scientists from the University of York (U.K.) and University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) have discovered.
Tags: auditory memory, researches
In this day and age, all of the tips concerning kids’ online safety are very well-founded. So we would like to keep you informed about new ones, even if you’re already ready to write a new volume of Encyclopedia Britannica about kids’ online safety.
“38 percent of respondents ages 12 to 14 said they had an online profile,” Dr. Bob Wilmott, chief of pediatrics at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center (St. Louis, Missouri, USA), noted in his article “Parents should monitor kids’ time online,” published in St. Louis Today.
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What your child is good at? Try to find it out watching the topics of educational online games children choose their selves. Do kids prefer fun games with numbers, or with letters? Or online labyrinths, arcades; problem-solving online games?
“Thousands of pupils ‘going backwards’ in English and maths,” the article with this alarming title was published in The Telegraph.
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What free educational websites do your kids visit? Thanks to the mass media and the Internet, kids may now receive new knowledge more simply and quickly than previous generations could ever imagine. Judging by the results of one survey, however, online educational content doesn’t seem to be very popular among children.
As the BBC reports, “some 60% of nine- and 10-year-olds thought Sir Isaac Newton discovered fire.”
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Which stereotypes would you prefer to overcome first in society? Speaking for ourselves, we might choose stereotypes which perpetuate gender unequality. Boys and girls are different, but there is no “best gender”! That’s why we are happy to keep you informed of studies which help to overcome gender stereotypes.
Thanks to new data obtained by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), such stereotypes as “Boys are less oriented towards education than girls” can be easily dispelled.
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Why do our children often look happier than we do? Sure, they don’t have as much responsibility or as many routines as their parents. But can this be the only reason? We suppose children are happier not because of experiencing few negative emotions, but because they have so many positive ones! They just do the things which bring them more joy and contentment, no matter any sad feelings.
“Happy people have healthier hearts, study finds,” The Belfast Telegraph reports, analyzing a study published in The European Heart Journal.
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Do you remember the “Think B4 U post!” campaign launched this year to help children use the Internet safely? (Read about it here if you don’t.) We think that it will soon be necessary to launch another one, not in virtual but in offline reality: “Think B4 U buy!”
According to a study conducted by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity (Yale University), from 2006 to 2008 “the number of products with youth-oriented cross-promotions increased by 78%,” and “only 18% of products met accepted nutrition standards for foods sold to youth,” as Public Health Nutrition informs us in its March 2010 issue.
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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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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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