offering short-term incentives to elicit behavior is unreliable, ineffective and causes “considerable long-term damage.”-Wired: School Design May Affect a Child’s Grades
-WSJ: Family Inc. - A new generation of parents is taking solutions from the workplace and transferring them to the home. From accountability checklists to branding sessions, the result is a bold new blueprint for happy families. [describes applying agile development to the family model]
-Outside: The Explainer: Why Kids Shouldn't Be Focused on Just 1 Sport
[something I have always believed and drove me to participate in as many sports as possible. Also why I quit basketball prior to my senior year. Rule was you couldn't play in other sports so that would have meant I had to give up indoor soccer, badminton, and hockey.]
-NPR: How Parents Can Learn To Tame A Testy Teenager
"The key in all these disputes, says Abraham, is not to argue with your teen about being angry. Help them understand why they're angry. "-MariaMontessori.com: Seven Ways to Love a Child: A Valentine for Parents
-NPR: Selling Kids On Veggies When Rules Like 'Clean Your Plate' Fail
-Lifehacker: 10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming a Parent
"2. The First Few Months Are Pure Torture"-TheAtlantic: Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail
-TheAtlantic: Your Kid Probably Doesn't Need Antibiotics
-TheAtlantic: Study: Praise Children For What They Do, Not Who They Are [this is similar to an older classic story from NYMag and is why I have never told my kids they are smart, but very observant]
-NPR: Parents, Just Say No To Sharing Tales Of Drug Use With Kids
-NPR: Whole Milk Or Skim? Study Links Fattier Milk To Slimmer Kids
-On Point: The Secrets Of Happy Families "oscillating family narrative" -> grit
-SciAm: Can Training to Become Ambidextrous Improve Brain Function?
-Lifehacker: 10 Things to Stop Saying to Your Kids (and What to Say Instead)
-Wired: The Terrible Truth About Toddlers and Touchscreens
-NYT Bits: The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind
-NYT Opinionator: The Power of Talking to Your Baby
-Fast.CoExist: Family Dinners Benefit Teens, Despite What They Might Say
-NYT: When Helping Hurts
...a paper published in February in the American Sociological Review ...led by the sociologist Laura T. Hamilton of the University of California, Merced, finds that the more money parents spend on their child’s college education, the worse grades the child earns. A separate study, published the same month in the Journal of Child and Family Studies and led by the psychologist Holly H. Shiffrin at the University of Mary Washington, finds that the more parents are involved in schoolwork and selection of college majors — that is, the more helicopter parenting they do — the less satisfied college students feel with their lives.-AtlanticCities: Doctors Now Advise Wearing Helmets During Tornado Warnings
"Thomas Jefferson pushed his daughter to succeed, while Abigal Adams cautioned her son against failure. What's a better incentive?"
-FastCOCreate: 4 Ways To Be A Happier Parent--One Mother's Experiment
-HuffPo: How to Talk to Little Girls
[or not]
"That's why I force myself to talk to little girls as follows... "Hey, what are you reading?"-PSMag: Accentuate the Positive—and See Your Kids Learn More
the authors do have a recommendation: reframe health warnings for kids away from tragic results and toward what good can come out of [it]-TheAtlantic: Don't Write Off Cursive
-TTBOOK: Precious Ink [audio; about handwriting]
-Smithsonian: It’s a Myth: There’s No Evidence That Coffee Stunts Kids’ Growth -> myth came from advertising.
[though as a counter-point I would argue that caffeine close to bed time could interfere with sleep patterns and less sleep could lead to a decrease in physical/mental development]
-Smithsonian: It’s a Myth: There’s No Evidence That Coffee Stunts Kids’ Growth -> myth came from advertising.
[though as a counter-point I would argue that caffeine close to bed time could interfere with sleep patterns and less sleep could lead to a decrease in physical/mental development]
