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Resilience and Pre-School Children

Very young children will only recently have mastered the skills of walking and talking, and they may not be able to express their anxieties and fears. Although you may think they are too young to understand what is happening, even very young children can absorb frightening events from the news or from conversations they overhear.
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Does being a Stay-At-Home Mom make a Difference for Your Child?

Along with mothers, social scientists have also long debated whether being raised by a stay-at-home parent is better for a child’s social, emotional and intellectual development. 
The latest research shows mixed results. According to an ongoing study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md., which has tracked more than 1,300 [...]

Major Recall Involving Popular Children’s Toy

massive toy recall could have millions of parents taking their children’s favourite toys away.
The makers of Thomas and Friends wooden railway toys is recalling about one and a-half million of them.
RC2 Corporation, which imports and distributes the toy, issued the recall because paint on the toys contains lead and could be toxic if ingested [...]

Too Much TV Time? Ask Kids

Two-thirds of parents responding to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey reported that they’re in control of what their kids watch on television and sites they visit on the Internet.
Kids, when asked in other studies, say their parents are kidding themselves. Only 25 to 40 percent of children say their parents put limits on what they [...]

Parents Math Cheat Sheet (K-5th)

Unless you’re an accountant, an engineer, or a math teacher, you’ve probably forgotten the math lessons you learned in grade school.
Math at the elementary level revolves around learning conceptual frameworks and understanding patterns, in addition to the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Younger students begin to understand basic amounts–whole, half, and quarter–as [...]