How Virtual Violence Impacts Children’s Behavior: Steps for Parents ​By: David L. Hill, MD, FAAP

How Virtual Violence Impacts Children’s Behavior: Steps for Parents ​By: David L. Hill, MD, FAAP

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.

Summer Math Loss Why kids lose math knowledge, and how families can work to counteract it

Summer Math Loss Why kids lose math knowledge, and how families can work to counteract it

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

The Connections Between Spanking and Aggression By Perri Klass, M.D

The Connections Between Spanking and Aggression By Perri Klass, M.D

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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