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Seven Hours' Sleep Is Optimal for 16 Year Olds' Academic Excellence
By Jennifer Lee | Mar 06, 2012 02:21 PM ESTEven though federal guidelines tell teenagers should sleep as long as they feel they need to, it was found that seven-hour sleeping 16-18 year olds do better academically than their nine-hour counterparts.
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Preschools Get Disadvantaged Children Ready for the Rigors of Kindergarten
By Staff Reporter | Feb 28, 2012 08:39 PM ESTPreschools help children prepare for the rigors of grade school-especially children who come from a minority family, a poor family, or whose parents don't provide high-quality interactions.
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Six-Month-Olds Know Words
By Joseph Li | Feb 16, 2012 12:17 AM ESTYoung infants between 6 months and 9 months already know many common words.
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Babies Know What’s Fair
By Staff Reporter | Feb 15, 2012 06:52 PM EST“That’s not fair!” It’s a common playground complaint. But how early do children acquire this sense of fairness?
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She Has a New Vision for Urban Teenage Girls: Confidence and Success
By Staff Reporter | Feb 08, 2012 06:45 PM ESTEnvision this: Urban teenage girls embracing a future dominated by personal success. Ruby Taylor, an entrepreneur, author, and social worker based in Lancaster, Pa., says it can happen
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DhillonStevens Limited produce MSc Child Psychotherapy Conversion Course for the Metanoia Institute, A programme validated by London South Bank university
By Staff Reporter | Feb 08, 2012 06:38 PM ESTAs one of the leading training organisations in the UK in the field of counselling, psychotherapy and supervision, the Metanoia Institute is now drawing on this knowledge of effective practice to create a child psychotherapy conversion course that is rich in content and depth, yet based in the realities of the demands of the world of employment and organisations.
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Child Sexual Abuse Books Now on iTunes
By Staff Reporter | Feb 02, 2012 05:38 PM ESTCleanan Press has made three important books about child sexual abuse by psychologist Dr. Lynn Daugherty available on iTunes. - January 22, 2012 - Cleanan Press, Inc.
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A Betrayed Baby Can Become a Loyal Lover
By Jennifer Lee | Feb 01, 2012 06:13 PM ESTA traditional view of human social development says a person's early relationship with his mother defines his relationships in his later years.
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Babies and Toddlers Can Suffer Mental Illness
By Staff Reporter | Feb 01, 2012 01:32 AM ESTInfants and toddlers can suffer serious mental health disorders,
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Blogging May Help Teens Dealing with Social Distress
By Staff Reporter | Jan 31, 2012 06:42 PM ESTTeens blogging about social problems, engaging with online community showed significant improvement, according to new research
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Social Navigator: Social Skills App Challenges Conventional Parenting and Teaching Practices
By Staff Reporter | Jan 12, 2012 06:02 PM ESTSpecial needs mom and behavioral management specialist creates new app that focuses on the root causes of child social challenges and calls for new alternatives to discipline and contingency management models for Apsperger's syndrome, ADD, and neurotypical kids.
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To Children a Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose
By Staff Reporter | Dec 29, 2011 07:01 PM ESTTwo vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about a thing’s properties if it’s in a certain category. There are reasons to believe that language greatly assists adults in both kinds of tasks. But how do young children use language to make sense of the things around them? It’s a longstanding debate among psychologists.
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Mother’s Mental State
By Staff Reporter | Nov 10, 2011 06:16 PM ESTAs a fetus grows, it’s constantly getting messages from its mother. It’s not just hearing her heartbeat and whatever music she might play to her belly;
