Posted on December 17, 2009 by Angeline Duran Piotrowski
Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. However, a new report finds no evidence for the learning styles hypothesis.
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Posted on August 12, 2009 by Angeline Duran Piotrowski
What about the child who, despite diligent night-training, continues to sleep right through the urge to use the bathroom. Is it his fault? Is it ours?
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Posted on July 30, 2009 by Angeline Duran Piotrowski
No less a revered medical institution than the Mayo Clinic, the saviors of severely medically challenged children nationwide, have studied and declared that anesthetics used during cesarean births do not cause children to have brain problems.
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Angeline Duran Piotrowski
A longer period of breastfeeding was associated with lower BMI (a measure for weight) at one year of age. This relationship disappeared by the age of 7 years. Similarly, there was no significant difference in BMI at the age of 60 years associated with duration of breastfeeding.
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Posted on November 23, 2008 by Angeline Duran Piotrowski
Children born to mothers who drink lightly during pregnancy – as defined as 1–2 units per week or per occasion – are not at increased risk of behavioral difficulties or cognitive deficits compared with children of abstinent mothers, according to a new study led by researchers at University College London (UCL)
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by Angeline Duran Piotrowski
Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who pioneered much modern thought in the area of childhood development, says that children only begin to grasp the concept of empathy at 10 years and older. Only at that age do they begin to really see other points of view and appreciate different worlds from their own. [...]
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