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Saturday, July 16th, 2011Helping your children perform better in school might be as simple as providing higher levels of folic acid in their diets! A team of scientific investigators led by Dr. Torbjorn K. Nilsson of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden collected data on the folic acid levels in 386 15-year-olds. After [...]
The First Teacher: Mom
Thursday, July 7th, 2011“A parent is a child’s first teacher.” A recent study described in Science Daily article “Learning from Mom Boosts Low-income Kids’ School Readiness” supports this well-known adage. Eileen T. Rodriguez, the study’s lead author and survey researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., reports “Our findings indicate that enriched learning experiences as early as the first [...]
Dyscalculia: The Dyslexia of Math
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Just as common but not nearly as familiar is the neurological disorder known as dyscalculia. According to current research in the journal Science, this disorder affects just as many people as does dyslexia, but it is has been neglected as a cognitive disorder. Evidence points to dyscalculia being a genetic disorder that some people have at birth, and it shows that the neural network that [...]
Is Your Teen Too Tired?
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011All good parents know that their children need adequate sleep to be healthy and to do well in school. A recent story on National Public Radio describes the findings from Helene Emsellem, a sleep researcher with George Washington University. According to Emsellem, most adolescents are very tired by Friday from a week of juggling school, [...]
Hyperactive Child? Avoid Artificial Food Colorings
Friday, April 8th, 2011MSNBC is reporting http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42338423/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/ that the Food and Drug Administration is meeting with stakeholders such as public health advocates and academics this week to determine if the public health advocates are correct in their assertion that artificial food colorings cause some hyperactive children to be even more so. Because of this, they believe that those [...]
Exercise Increases Brain Size
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Of course, parents want the best education for their children: a good school, excellent teachers, and other resources—including appropriate technology and tutors (both of which are available with online tutoring services). Now, they should make sure to include physical activities to help them to do better academically. For the first time, the brains of 49 children were [...]
The Effects of Peer Pressure on Kids Brains
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011We parents all have concerns about our children’s peers. As children grow up, peer influence becomes even greater, so we have good reason to be concerned. Now, it seems, according to an Edweek blog post http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2011/02/study_peer_pressure_may_change.html, that the influence of our children’s peers is so compelling because it actually affects them physically as well. A [...]
Working Out Before Class
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011There’s a delicate balancing act that engaged parents continually work to achieve for their children. Next to good health, those parents want the best education they can get for their children if that means elementary tutoring through college graduation!. Many try to include social and physical activity as well—many times to the detriment of their very packed schedules. However, [...]
Reading Before Kindergarten, A Good Idea or Not?
Thursday, February 24th, 2011One of my friends has three very bright children. When her second child was about to enter kindergarten, she had already learned how to read. Whether she learned from her older brother or from her educator mother, she was reading small books before she entered kindergarten. Her mother fretted to me on several occasions that [...]
Essential Need for Boys Helps to Predict Academic Success
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011The September 23 issue of Science Daily reported the findings of a first-of-its-kind study about developing the language skills in children. That study concludes that the development of language skills in young boys seems to be more important than in young girls. Language development in boys helps them to develop self-control, which leads to academic [...]
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