TIME For Kids is a weekly magazine and currently read by more than 4 million students. You can find many well selected stories for kids covering world and national events, scientific discoveries, sports, entertainment and kids in the news.
Their TFK Kid Reporters will give you the kids’ eye-view on everything and report stories around […]
Here’s a cool science site for kids- Take Another Look at Science Through The Eyes of Nye, informative and eye opening. It’s quite different from those conventional science sites. There are 13 episodes covering from the topics of Astrobiology to Evolution of Sex. Each includes fast facts, featured scientists, the flip side and episode clips. […]
When some kids turn to 18 to 24 months old, they stutter, for example, repeating certain words, making lots of stopping or dropping certain sounds and syllables in their speech. To parents, the stuttering may be upsetting and frustrating, yet study shows it’s natural for kids to stutter at this developmental stage. An article at […]
All parents do want to raise smart and happy kids. Apart from IQ (intelligence quotient), EQ (emotional quotient) that experts say is crucial to lifelong success and happiness. Over at Sesame Workshop, a short and easy-to-read article written by four experts, Dr. Charles Flatter, Dr. Kathryn Barnard, Dr. Robert Brooks and Lynne S. Dumas clearly […]
According to psychologist John Gottman, children with high emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) are able to form strong friendships easily and become confident, responsible and successful adults. How can parents help raise their children’s EQ? Gottman recommends a series of steps, called “emotion coaching”, to teach a child to analyze feelings and handle conflicts.
Listen with empathy.
Pay […]
“Your child is a unique blend of talents, personality and ingredients, nowhere else to be found.” – Animal School by Raising Small Souls.
For many reasons, lots of children don’t cope with learning very well in school. Often their temperaments, talents and learning styles are not properly matched in a standardized school system – “cookie-cutter […]
I teach LOTE Chinese (Mandarin) at school but speak Chinese (Cantonese) and English at home. Although my kids’ first language is English, they are very fluent in Chinese. So I pretty understand that the more fun and interactive the learning process, the more effective the learning outcome.
I really love the design idea of Language Littles […]
Research shows there are many benefits of learning a second language. Over at Ask Metafilter, there’s an interesting lead posted on learning languages. Many responses are very positive, for example, “I’ve never heard a downside. Go for it.”, and “I have a friend whose mother was Russian and father Belgian. He grew up speaking […]
My friend, Amy once told me that she found a rotten hamburger in her daughter’s school bag. Her daughter is a very good kid, yet too messy, and keeps forgetting about homework until the last minute. Although Amy has repeatedly asked her daughter if there’s any assignment nearly everyday, the answer is always an honest […]
I read an excellent article posted over at Creating Passionate Users, saying that angry/negative people will influence your brain. The new neuroscientific findings of “mirror neurons” shed new light on human learning and explain why emotions are contagious:
There is now strong evidence to suggest that humans have the same type of “mirror neurons” found in […]