I have brilliant kids. At birth, my sons already had trillions of brain cells just waiting to be connected and stimulated. “Their potential to learn so much was all right there from the start,” says Marcy Guddemi, Ph.D., executive director of the Gesell Institute of Child Development research, education, and advocacy center in New Haven, [...]
Sensory Play Boosts Learning Process in Children
March 31, 2013 | Posted by
The psychology behind a child’s ability to focus academically or follow rules can be positively influenced by the environment. Parents and caregivers can help children with sensory processing disorders or developmental issues ease into everyday activities with simple games. Each month, we co-host a play based learning linky party with Nikki at Spectrum Psychological. Sensory play is a sneaky [...]
Wrap Your Child in an Armor of Confidence
January 21, 2013 | Posted by
It’s a ritual I began the first day my girlpie, Mari, started kindergarten. I’d fluff her super cutie outfit, adjust the fancy barrettes in her hair, take her little moon pie face into my hands, kiss those beautiful cinnamon brown cheeks, and pump her up all the way from the garage to the front steps [...]
How Easy Does Your Baby Learn? It’s a Piece of Cake
January 9, 2013 | Posted by
If you’re like most new parents, there are plenty of days — ones when your baby won’t stop crying and there’s oatmeal on the wall — when you feel as if you can’t do anything right. But think again. Even if all you did was feed your little one when he was hungry, talk to him as you did [...]
Help Your Child be a Good Sport
January 2, 2013 | Posted by
Are your kids good losers? If not, you’re not alone. In the competitive world we live in, children are taught directly and indirectly from a young age that winning is the goal. As parents, it is our responsibility to teach our kids that while winning a game may be a worthwhile goal to work toward, [...]
Black Teens With Race Pride Do Better in School
January 1, 2013 | Posted by
New research shows that when parents use racial socialization—talking to their children or engaging in activities that promote feelings of racial knowledge, pride, and connection—it offsets racial discrimination’s potentially negative impact on students’ academic development. Preparing adolescents for possible bias is also a protective factor, though a combination of this preparation and racial socialization is [...]
New Study Shows a Father’s Love is Critical to a Child’s Development
June 14, 2012 | Posted by
A father’s love is as important to a child’s emotional development as a mother’s, a large-scale study has confirmed. Examining the cases of more than 10,000 sons and daughters revealed how a cold or distant father can damage a child’s life, sometimes for decades to come. The review of 36 studies from around the world [...]
