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Let’s Skype! Video Chat Use Among Infants and Toddlers
Even though the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under two avoid all media exposure, there is evidence that many of these infants and toddlers are using electronic media regularly. Furthermore, while strong, nationally
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Overexposed? Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories
NPR: Los Angeles blogger Rebecca Woolf uses her blog, Girl’s Gone Child, as a window into her family’s life. Naturally, it includes oodles of pictures of her four children. She says she’s probably taken tens of thousands
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Dads Who Share the Load Bolster Daughters’ Aspirations
Fathers who help with household chores are more likely to raise daughters who aspire to less traditional, and potentially higher paying, careers, according to research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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Heavily Decorated Classrooms Disrupt Attention and Learning In Young Children
Researchers hope some new findings may eventually generate guidelines to help teachers optimally design classrooms.
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Read, Kids, Read
The New York Times: Late last year, neuroscientists at Emory University reported enhanced neural activity in people who’d been given a regular course of daily reading, which seemed to jog the brain: to raise its game, if
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Mothers’ Symptoms of Depression Predict How They Respond to Child Behavior
Depressive symptoms seem to focus mothers’ responses on minimizing their own distress, which may come at the expense of focusing on the impact their responses have on their children, according to research published in Psychological
