Medical X-Press – Jack Wang
Practice what you preach. Suit your actions to your words. Walk the talk. Hypocrisy is ingrained as a moral failing for most adults, but when do children learn to make the same distinction? According to a new study from University of Chicago psychologists, the shift seems to happen early in elementary school.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-11-children-hypocrisy.html
Moms – Elisa Cinelli
Extracurriculars give kids a well-rounded education, but there’s a fine line between just enough activities to balance academics and going too far. If they get in the way of family time or cut out daily free play, you can be sure your kid has too many extracurriculars. At school, kids learn primarily academics. While they may take an art class or learn a little bit of hockey, the school day is generally filled with math, language, and history. Children benefit from extracurricular activities, which balance the rote memorization and book learning they take on during at school.
https://www.moms.com/how-many-extracurriculars-is-too-many-for-kids/
Moms – Elisa Cinelli
Teenagers need a lot of sleep, and most are not getting it. Understanding how teens’ biological rhythms change and grow can help change that. The teenage years mark a time of change and growth. Growth is both physical, with growth spurts leaving kids in pants up to their calves overnight and constantly bumping into things, and emotional as they transition from childhood into mature thinking. All these changes require sleep. The brain and the body need to recuperate!
https://www.moms.com/how-much-sleep-do-teenagers-need-explained/
Medical X-Press – Fran Gale and Michael Edenborough
Children are too rarely asked their perspectives on public spaces. Traditionally, adults make choices for children, particularly about how they live and play. In yet-to-be-published research* on behalf of a local council, we asked 75 children aged seven to 12 from 10 primary schools in a disadvantaged area of Sydney to map what they value in their local area. Using iPads, children pinned images of their choices to specific locations on a digital map of the local government area. Some of their choices may surprise you.
Moms – Jessica Sayers
Over the last ten years social media as bloomed into this important aspect of many people’s life. It keeps people updated with the news, friends, and families while letting you connect to new people who have the same common interest as you. But when you have a tween and teen at home social media is not always the best idea to have in your house.