As China’s Communist Party meets next week to pick the leaders who will oversee the party for the next decade, the world may not realize how much of its fate will lie in their hands. The BBC broke down the ways China will impact the world in an insightful piece called “Eight Ways China is [...]
New Study: A Reliable Environment Critical to Fostering Self-Control In Children
October 15, 2012 | Posted by
The so-called marshmallow test – one of the most fascinating experiments in child psychology – just got even more interesting. In studies first conducted in the 1960s, researchers presented children with a marshmallow and told them if they could resist eating it for a few minutes they would get two marshmallows. It was discovered that [...]
Teaching Black, Urban Kids to be Environmental Stewards
August 17, 2012 | Posted by
Ooooo Noooo!!! She’s sitting in the grass! Mommy, she’s sitting on the grass! She’s gonna get a bug on her! She’s gonna get in trouble!” My youngest daughter was tattling on her older sister. Could it be that merely sitting on the grass is a punishable offense in my home? Well, my kids don’t exactly [...]
