by webdev | Sep 1, 2018 | News
Kids who experience more violence in their virtual worlds—television, movies, and video games—are more likely to display aggressive thoughts, aggressive behavior, and angry feelings in the real world. Anything we, as parents, can do to reduce this aggressive behavior is well worth the effort!
Here are practical steps parents can take for raising peaceful children in a violent world. Please Read More.
by webdev | Sep 1, 2018 | News
South Bend’s Mayor Pete reads “Goodnight Owl” by Greg Pizzoli for a fun Summer Reading Challenge 2016 Storytime.
Did you know that watching this storytime counts as minutes read for the Summer Reading Challenge?
Listen, watch and enjoy here!
by webdev | Sep 1, 2018 | News
It’s tough to imagine filling a lazy beach day with fractions, or stretching out in the back seat on a road trip and practicing long division. For many of us, summer and mathematics just don’t seem to mix.
But across the socioeconomic spectrum, kids arrive back at school every fall much worse off in mathematics than they finished in the spring. On average, students lose approximately 2.6 months of learning in math over the summer — and teachers have to give up weeks of class time, or more, to make up for that loss. Read More
by webdev | Sep 1, 2018 | News
What do babies need in order to learn and thrive? One thing they need is conversation — responsive, back-and-forth communication with their parents and caregivers. This interactive engagement is like food for their developing brains, nurturing language acquisition, early literacy, school readiness, and social and emotional well-being. Read more.
by webdev | Sep 1, 2018 | News
The American Academy of Pediatrics officially recommends against physical discipline, saying that evidence shows it is ineffective and puts children at risk for abuse. But many parents continue to spank, even when they don’t think it does much good. One reason the American Academy of Pediatrics opposes spanking is because of evidence that it is associated with aggressive behavior in children. But does that mean that hitting children produces aggressive behavior, or that aggressive behavior in children elicits more and sterner parental measures?
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