Your Photos, Your Privacy, and Your Chidlren
You may have watched some telecast or read articles alarming on the dangers of posting kids’ photos on the social networks. I have one bad news and two good news for you. The bad news is that pictures taken by smartphone, iPad, any other modern tablets or some GPS-enables cameras actually contain information on where […]
Do Not Lie to Your Children
Despite its apparently different topic, this post is actually a continuation of the yesterday’s article on self-control. One of the breakthrough studies, pointing at self-control as at one of the most critical human skills, was so-called Stanford Marshmallow Experiment with its follow-ups briefly described yesterday. Let me remind that researchers left little children alone in […]
TV, Video Games, and Children
My kids love cartoons. Even more than cartoons, they love video games. Having heard somewhere that video games nurture creativity, I had been perfectly fine with the games part. Until I familiarized myself with the number of studies investigating the link between kids’ academic performance and their screen exposure. Let me share with you what […]
Love is Better Educator than Toys
The team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania released the results of a long-term study proving that warm parental nurturance by the age of four is a critical factor for child’s brain development. What exactly did “the parental nurturance” mean? It consisted of two components: warmth and affection (holding child close 10–15 min per day, conversation […]