Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Parents who struggle to encourage their children to eat vegetables can now play a more influential part at their mealtimes—concludes a study by psychologists in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University.
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Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience challenges in social interactions with their peers, and these challenges are intensified for those who also have limited speech. Researchers in Penn State’s College of Education have found that augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) that makes use of video technology can assist communication for adolescents with ASD by providing relevant vocabulary, concrete discussion topics and built-in prompts to communicate.
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Woman’s Day – Karla Pope
When the new year rolls around, it’s typical for adults to set fresh goals for the 12 months ahead, but what about kids? Don’t leave them out. Children may not be able to stay up until midnight to ring in the new year, but it’s a good idea for them to partake in goal setting at the top of the year too. Making New Year’s resolutionstogether is a fun, bonding activity that you can do as a family.
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Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
To become healthy and successful adults, children need to persist on tasks that they might not necessarily consider easy or fun, like studying, exercising, or brushing one’s teeth. Throughout childhood, persistence behavior changes daily, but the factors that shape this variability in persistence are understudied. A new study published in Child Development by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and the Sante Fe Institute, analyzed daily toothbrushing behaviors in three-year-olds and examined the relationship between their persistence on the task and parental praise.
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Moms – Jessica Tucker
Many are quick to judge kids who are daydreamers by nature as those who choose not to pay attention or perhaps have attention disorders. It is not very often that kids who daydream are allowed the space to do so because of the belief that daydreaming means kids are not being challenged enough in other areas of their lives. But, as it turns out when kids spend time daydreaming, they are developing skills and spending time finding out about themselves, which may not happen if not allowed the downtime to let the mind wander and have a quick escape from reality. And because of this daydreaming is good for kids to participate in from time to time.
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