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Toys for Healthy Food and Life’s Common Ancester (plus more)
Healthy Options Boosted by Toy Power Santa Clara County in California recently banned the sale of toys with food in restaurants. The thinking was along the lines of whether or not McDonalds really...
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How to Avoid Picky Eaters (Besides Smacking Them)
Chances are that everybody out there has had a bad experience trying to feed a kid at some point. Whether babysitting, visiting friends with children, working at a restaurant or even just sitting near...
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Easy Trick to Help Kids Learn to Read
Let me start out by saying that I don’t have a ton of patience for toddlers. Pretending that the rock they just picked up or the scribbles of colors they threw on a sidewalk are the greatest things...
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TV Hurts Youths’ Self-Esteem… Unless They’re White
We already knew this made you dumber. Apparently, television still reigns supreme in America. According to a recent study from Indiana University, preadolescent children still watch more television...
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Stressed Kids = Dumber Kids
Over the past couple of years, I have featured a few research results that try to paint a clearer picture in the nature versus nurture debate. Today, I give you some pretty convincing argument on the...
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Mentally Manipulating Objects Leads to the Later Manipulation of Numbers
An example of a spatial reasoning test. Obviously, the ones the researchers gave to the six-year-olds were much easier. My freshman year of college, I was given a spatial reasoning test at the start of...
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Thank Your Parents for Forcing that Violin in Your Hands
At some point in time, we’ve all had a musical instrument pushed on us. For some of us, its piano lessons beginning in grade school. For others, a violin or tuba is placed in their hands in middle...
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It Ain’t Always Easy Being the Smart Kid
If you’ve ever broken out in a cold sweat at the prospect of a math quiz, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Lots of high school and college students find themselves in the same position on a daily basis....
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Black or White vs. Hello or Bonjour
Seems pretty obvious who the child’s future self would most likely be, right? Maybe not… How do you categorize yourself amongst others? How do you differentiate “your” types of people versus outsiders...
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Leaving the Bitterness Out Results in Chunky Children Living Near Fast Food
There’s a whole slew of reasons why some people are more predisposed to being overweight than others. Some of them have to do with nurture – how they were raised, where they live, peer pressures, etc....
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