Society
TRA: Target Practice
Target Practice: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019 (read more)
parenting
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What’s For Afterbirth? The Benefits, or Not, of Placenta Consumption
Research finds that consuming placentas has little to no effect on postpartum mood and maternal bonding (read more)
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How We Push Clever Kids to Cheat
Kids praised for being smart are more likely to cheat, new studies find (read more)
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Mum-Shaming: Who does it most (and does it have any effect)?
Advice or abuse? Giving opinions on mothers’ parenting skills can have unintended consequences (read more)
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Good Dads Make Happy Kids (and they don’t even need to clean up)
How new fathers see themselves in child’s early years seems to be most influential on kids’ later life (read more)
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What’s a Hug Worth? How Parental Affection Influences Health
Good relationships with parents may benefit children’s health decades later (read more)
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For Happy Sons, Avoid These Plastics in Pregnancy
Prenatal Bisphenol A exposure linked to anxiety and depression in boys (read more)
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The Damage Television Does to Your Kids: Proven!
Falling TVs causing increasing number of severe neck and head injuries in children (read more)
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Child Safety? There’s an App for That
Health professionals can and should unite with industry to optimize children’s already frequent use of mobile devices to help promote their health and well-being (read more)
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A look inside children’s minds
When young children gaze intently at something you know their minds are busily at work. But you’re never entirely sure how children’s mind work. (read more)
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Pacifiers good
A simple habit may give significant protection against allergy development. (read more)
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Child Literacy equals adult success
If ya kid can read they’ll probably succeed. Early math and reading ability linked to job and income in adulthood. (read more)
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TV = Antisocial behaviours
Five year-olds who watch TV for three or more hours a day are increasingly likely to develop antisocial behaviours (read more)
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Don’t Ask Dad about Drugs
Parents talking about their own drug use to children could be detrimental as children respond better to antidrug messages when parents don’t disclose past drug use. (read more)
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Parents’ Praise Bad for Toddlers
Toddlers whose parents’ praise their efforts more than they praised them as individuals had a more positive approach to challenges five years later. (read more)
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Move Em Out
Emigration of children to urban areas can protect parents against depression (read more)
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Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels
Surely this is a good thing. Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels Closer sleeping proximity between fathers and children is associated with a greater decrease in the father’s testosterone level, with (read more)
Society
iDose Therefore I Am
Panic in the Bytes of Digital Music: Featuring Cyber-mums fed moral panic by sensationalist media in An Old Scare Gets a Brave New Update. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Your child is already (read more)