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Babies’ language lessons may start inside the womb
CBC News: Newborn babies respond differently to their mother tongue as compared to foreign languages thanks to all the listening they did while in the womb, a joint study by American and Swedish researchers suggests.
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Warum Kinder zu gehen beginnen (How do you learn to walk?)
ORF Austria: Warum stehen Kleinkinder eigentlich auf, wenn sie die Welt auch krabbelnd gut erkunden können? Weil sie beim Gehen schneller vorankommen, berichten US-Forscherinnen – eine nur scheinbar banale Erkenntnis. In der bisher umfangreichsten Studie
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Society for the Study of Human Development 8th Biennial Meeting
Registration is now open for the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development to be held Nov. 3–5, 2013 at the Fort Lauderdale Beach and Spa Resort, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Discounted early registration
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Newtown, Conn., Elementary School Shooting: Kids React Differently Than Adults
ABC: When even adults are left speechless by traumatic events, it’s hard to imagine what’s going on in the mind of a child. Adults often gorge on media images — trying to glean facts, gain
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More Dads Buy the Toys, So Barbie, and Stores, Get Makeovers
The New York Times: Barbies are for girls and construction sets are for boys. Or are they? For the first time in Barbie’s more than 50-year history, Mattel is introducing a Barbie construction set that
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The Santa Lie
Slate: We raise our kids to be truthful. We teach them about the laws of physics. And then we tell them that nine flying reindeer pull an immortal fat man and his sleigh through the