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The most up to date daily news on early childhood development are still available, but they have moved! You may now read our daily updates at www.ChildUp.com.
Lying is something we don’t want our children to do because it undermines trust.
While pre-schoolers can mix up reality and fantasy, by primary school children should know the difference between the two.
There are many reasons why a child may lie. Sometimes it’s to avoid what they see will be unfair punishment. If children see others […]
Forget Mozart CDs and Baby Einstein videos, Boston’s mayor is urging parents to teach preschool children the old-fashioned way: by talking, reading, and playing with them.
Hoping to turn a new page on early-childhood education in Boston, Mayor Thomas M. Menino declared today as “Talk, Read, Play Day” in conjunction with Boston public schools’ Countdown to […]
10 year old, Aaryan casually asked his mother, “What’s the big deal about vibrating condoms? Aren’t condoms the good guys who keep HIV out of the picture?” His parents were caught off guard. They had no answer to their son’s question. They were used to answering their 10 year old’s questions on the solar system […]
‘A fox could bite my bottom’: Childhood worries and anxieties may be influenced by the anxieties of their parents
I grew up in the 1970s. To me it seemed a pretty anxious era. The Cold War, unemployment, staggering blindly around the house during power-cuts. Yet today, research shows, we are more anxious than ever. Children in […]
Another hearty good morning as we head into the winter! But never mind that, today I begin a series of as yet indeterminate length on thinking critically:
Be wary
We’ve all heard that you can’t believe everything you read. It is true! If reading were just a matter of deciphering the letters, words and sentences, it’d be […]
Children are struggling at school because they don’t know if they are left or right-handed
The proportion of infants arriving at school not knowing whether they are right or left-handed has trebled in the past decade, researchers say. The situation has been made worse by excessive parental fears, driven by cot death, about letting them lie […]
And here’s the proof: Use the JUMP program and enjoy the unaccustomed taste of success
Melissa Marsh is a special education co-ordinator at Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw School in Port Hardy, at the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Its students include some of the most challenged kids in Canada. Many struggle with learning disabilities, cognitive disabilities and behaviour problems. […]
Kaoru Tomiishi sobbed as the body of her six-year-old son Koki was lowered into a small plot near the family home in Fukuoka. She told mourners she wanted to find and kill the murderer.
Three days earlier, on September 18, the 35-year-old housewife from Japan’s southern island had led a frantic search for the boy after […]
On her back in a dark tube, Blair Smith held still as a scanner combed her brain with magnetic waves. Words flashed by her eyes: tack, vase, hope, glow, vague, cade.
The 11-year-old had been told to press the button in her right hand if the word was real, the button in her left if it […]