Research on Spanking: It’s Bad For ALL Kids Usually academic articles couch their recommendations in dense language, but this is about a researcher who just lays it out in "Spanking and Child …
What Kids Believe
“Three- to six-year-old children were much more likely to believe that 'positive' characters from TV and film existed in real life than their 'negative' counterparts.” Emotion changes children's …
Listicle Hysteria
“I clicked on the owls, fearing that I would never again have a chance to see them; they were, to be fair, uniformly superb.” New Yorker: 10 Paragraphs About Lists You Need in Your Life Right Now …
It’s Not How Long the Game is Played But…
WSJ: The Action in a Baseball Game Is About 18 Minutes This analysis would have been so much more valuable if it had accounted for suspense. There's a big difference between anticipation and …
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WordPress Goes to College: A Case Study
Last weekend I had the honor to speak at WordCamp Chicago, an impeccably-run conference focused exclusively on users of WordPress. Seriously, it’s amazing how high quality the programming and …
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Quality Trumps Quantity, When Building Vocab for Kids
File this in the duh category. I just hope over-achieving parents notice this before they buy any Baby Einstein books trying to cash in on the “more is better” school of vocab lessons. A new study …
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