6 days ago
deusx : » Sample Active Child Trades | Child Trader Child Exchange Network - "Child Trader Child Exchange Network isn’t about not loving your children. Its about finding a family that can love them more."
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29 days ago
gleuschk : Equally Shared Parenting · Half the Work ... All the Fun - website of couple mentioned in NYT story
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3 month ago
deusx : 3 Internet Providers Agree to Block Access to Child Pornography - NYTimes.com - "This literally threatens our children, and there can be no higher priority than keeping our children safe." Just Usenet? Why not just shut off the whole net?
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5 month ago
gleuschk : Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills : NPR - the necessity of "free play" for building self-regulation
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philgyford : Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online - Interesting articles on how a class of children played with Lego and how the teachers attempted to help them structure the play fairly. (via Haddock)
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7 month ago
deusx : practicalist: why valleywag brings no pleasure, sucks - "Valleywag isn't a witty gadfly, it's just breaking things to see the pieces, like a little child."
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9 month ago
gleuschk : YouTube - Classic Sesame Street - I'm a Baby (Rock Me) - I make the loveliest gurgling sounds
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9 month ago
gleuschk : NPR Music: The Top 10 Kids' CDs of 2007, from WXPN - so far Conor's been groovin on Daft Punk pretty hard
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: "More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life" interesting.. but not too surprising.
gleuschk : Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - we should be so lucky
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Baby Bargains Dishes Dirt - article about the authors of "Baby Bargains" - interesting side note on the vaccination/autism foofawraw
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Taming Baby Rage: Why Are Some Kids So Angry?: Scientific American - it ain't TV ... in fact you may soon be able to eugenically opt for a non-aggressive baby
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10 month ago
nelson : My book to help America - Charming kids WWII book showing a different era of war
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11 month ago
gleuschk : 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings Daycare Program - a smidgen spendier than we originally thought, but might be the only way
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Preparation for parenthood - Look cheerful
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15 month ago
gleuschk : How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail - keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your children on a leash
philgyford : How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail - Interesting graphic showing one family's increasing restrictions on their children's freedom, over four generations. I wonder how child abduction rates have changed over a similar period. (via Boing Boing)
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15 month ago
jonhicks : Let’s ask children to save the children - I love the Johnson Banks approach to new Save the Children branding. Get children to create new and more relevant forms and weights of Gill Sans.
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philgyford : TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video) - A talk about education sounded very dull. But no, this is really good, well worth watching, and lots of fun. He's a bit like Tommy Cooper at times. (via Tomski)
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jonhicks : the Octonauts & the Only Lonely Monster - Recommended by KateMonkey, this looks like an excellent series.
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18 month ago
Andy Baio : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids - it's amazing how something can make so much sense, but feel so wrong [via]
adamrg : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids - Moment of clarity. Someday I'll write the post about how labels like "smart" have affected my life.
jcgregorio : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine
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18 month ago
philgyford : Research | Within Families - The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness - How to ensure your child has a happier life, but interesting and valuable for adults too. A shame the references are linked to online resources. (via Blackbeltjones)
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18 month ago
gleuschk : NPR : Students' View of Intelligence Can Help Grades - if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids - The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids: "The Inverse Power of Praise"... a good article from New York Magazine
gleuschk : The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine - fascinating
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19 month ago
deusx : Ballot: Married People Must Have Kids -- Tuesday, Feb. 06, 2007 -- Page 1 -- TIME - "Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years or have their marriages annulled."
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Mom's club of Lawrence KS - Supporting Lawrence moms since 1999
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Spaceships - Spaceships: "Parenting is like an ongoing episode of CSI. You’re always following the evidence back to the crime."
deusx : Spaceships [dive into mark] - "Oh my God, Jim, they’re using tools! Next week they’ll be building spaceships!"
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