Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Kids and Meditation

by Stacey
Some schools around the country are teaching students a controversial form of meditation to help battle stress. According to this article in Newsweek, transcendental meditation may help kids in inner city schools better handle stressful situations as well as improve their academic performance.
TM is the trademarked name of a meditation technique created by Maharishi […]

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Monday, May 5th, 2008

Kids Want to Know

by Stacey
A fascinating new study in the journal Cognition shows that three and four-year old children attune to those who provide them with reliable information. According to this short piece in the NY Times Science section, preschoolers spontaneously keep track of the trustworthiness of those around them.
“Humans make mistakes,” Susan A. J. Birch of the […]

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Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Spying To Get Into College

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
New software programs enable parents to learn of everything from their child’s daily class attendance and homework completion to test scores and overall grades throughout the semester, according to this article in the NY Times.
Boy am I glad I’m not a kid anymore. What a nightmare. Sorry if you’re one of […]

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Friday, April 25th, 2008

:)

by Stacey
The informal style of writing that teens use in emails, text messages and on social networking sites is starting to show up in their academic work, according to this article in the NY Times.
Nearly two-thirds of 700 students surveyed said their e-communication style sometimes bled into school assignments, according to the study by […]

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Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Tubes In and Adenoids Out

by Stacey
Last Friday morning we took my son Sage to Children’s Hospital to have tubes put in his ears and to get his adenoids taken out. About six months ago I noticed that he didn’t seem to hear me very well. I wasn’t too concerned because when I was his age, my mother noticed the […]

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Gender-Based Education

by Stacey
Thanks to many of you who pointed me towards this article in last Sunday’s NY Times magazine on gender-based education. I finally got a chance to read it last night. So let’s get to it.
The article showcases the ideas of Leonard Sax, a pediatrician turned single-sex education advocate who claims that boys and […]

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