A place for me to talk about parenting and fatherhood.
From the category archives:
Haven’t updated the blog in a while. So, here’s some links out to stuff I found over the week or so.
- Children’s learning should be fun, says headsHead teachers in the UK have come out strongly in support of having children below the age of six learn through play. They are against children entering formal [...]
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The headlines from Telegraph and BBC News offer totally different viewpoints though they are quoting from the same Johns Hopkins University’s research. The Telegraph’s headline read “Two hours’ TV a day ‘harms children’” while BBC News was “Children ‘recover’ from TV harm“.
Hmmm … when I first saw the two headlines, I thought they were basing [...]
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Well, according to Time, letting your child watch an hour of Baby Einstein or Brainy Baby might not be beneficial and may even be detrimental to the baby’s language development.
From the article, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary [...]
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A programme has been launched in England to help children learn how to talk even before they start primary school. This is because of an increasing number of children with poor language skills.
The Early Talk programme uses gestures, symbols and signing to expand the vocabulary of children and will be piloted in 200 government-backed children’s [...]
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