Snippets – Tuesday, 9th June 2009

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Parenting:

• Larry Blasko said
  By Larry Blasko
  But just as Fathers once banded together to hunt the wooly mammoth and passed strategy and tactics from survivor to survivor, veteran fathers must now pass child-care and housekeeping tips to the new generation. …
  Larry Blasko said – http://larryblaskosaid.blogspot.com/
• Driving law improves child safety
  Canada.com – Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
  “We can try to get information about traffic and child safety out to the public, but some people don’t become aware of it and there are some families who …
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• Parents concerned about students’ gap-year safety
  Times Online – UK
  … of people taking a year off to travel but increasing numbers of parents are contacting gap-year travel companies, concerned about their child’s safety. …
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• Child Seat Safety Checkpoint Saves Lives | UC Daily News …
  According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), research on the effectiveness of child safety seats have found them to reduce fatal injury by 71 percent for infants (younger than 1 year old) and by 54 percent …
  WSBIAM – News – Local and Regional – http://www.ucdailynews.com/news/local
• Individual learning environment crucial to child’s development
  Middle East North Africa Financial Network – Amman,Jordan
  Schools which offer a bespoke learning curriculum provide the ideal environment for student development, according to Dr. Michael Gemma, the designate …
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• My Child Won’t Sleep – ITV1 @ Unreality Primetime
  By Lisa McGarry
  For some families these scenarios are a crippling reality, threatening both their child’s development and the stability of the family unit. With exclusive access to Dr Cathy Hill at one of the UK’s leading centres for child sleep …
  Unreality Primetime – http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/
• Pure Self Discovery: A Parenting Belief: Confirm The Info
  By Tiffany
  A great example involves child development. If you’ve noticed, the bar is constantly being raised for what a kid should know at a certain age. My cousin was told that her 1.5 year old should be speaking in sentences and since she can’t, …
  Pure Self Discovery – http://pureselfdiscovery.blogspot.com/
• Holy Mothering: The Boomerang Effect
  By liebchen77
  From his decades of research in child development and family life, Bettelheim said that parents are really lucky. They are given a second change at redeeming erroneous or destructive childhood experiences in themselves by doing the …
  Holy Mothering – http://madredetresbebs.blogspot.com/

Family Planning/Pregnancy:

• Multivitamins in Pregnancy Ward Off Low Birth Weight
  MedPage Today – Little Falls,NJ,USA
  By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today LITTLE FALLS, NJ, June 8 — Multivitamin supplementation during pregnancy may improve a baby’s birth weight more …
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• Teen Pregnancy: The Tangled Web
  Vision Insights and New Horizons – USA
  “Because adolescent pregnancy is a problem of rather recent interest, there is a dearth of empirical information on it. Much of the research has been flawed …
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• FATHER JONATHAN MORRIS: Home ‘Gender Tests’ Require Real Regulation
  FOXNews – USA
  The new technology will now make it possible for women or couples to make a decision to abort a child on account of gender, before signs of pregnancy are …
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Education & Learning:

• FACTBOX: US healthcare overhaul begins to take shape
  Reuters – USA
  Here are some details of what lawmakers are considering based on an early draft of a bill being written by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions …
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• UK schools rapped over science education – Physics Today News Picks
  By Physics Today
  In a separate story BBC Education Editor Gary Eason says that in a lecture in February this year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he wanted to double the number of pupils in state schools taking triple science to 100000 a year, …
  Physics Today News Picks – http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/
• Teenagers’ learning ‘too narrow’
  BBC News – UK
  Wales is making a better job than England of educating teenagers, a major review of learning has concluded. The English government’s vision of learning is …
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• MU Study Finds Connection Between Evolution, Classroom Learning
  PhysOrg.com – Evergreen,VA,USA
  But a University of Missouri researcher has found there is an ever-widening gap between what humans can naturally learn and what they need to learn to be …
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Aging Issues:

• Exercise, Education Keep You Sharp in Old Age
  U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
  A new study shows that seniors with at least a high school education and a ninth-grade literacy level who followed such a lifestyle were more likely to stay …
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• Now a networking site for senior citizens | The Daily Indian
  By TDI Bureau
  Facebook and Orkut along with other social networking sites are not sole domain of youngsters alone, senior citizens are also using technology to catch up with.
  The Daily Indian – http://www.thedailyindian.com/

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