Cooking with Kids

Let your kids help you in the kitchen with these great recipes just for kids. Many of these recipes include step-by-step instructions for your children to follow including useful information about kids using microwaves.
Cooking with Kids

Cosby on Parenting

SpongeBob to soar on stage

Nickelodeon’s absorbant yellow one is hitting the UK stage in SpongeBob SquarePants – The Sponge Who Could Fly – A New Musical!. continue

Online Time Important to Teen Development

The largest U.S. study on teenagers and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online, skills that adults do not always understand or value.

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About Digital Youth

“Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more

How to Teach Integrity to Children

Honesty seems to be a rare find nowadays.

Along the same line, another dwindling commodity is honesty to one’s self, otherwise known as integrity. Restoring integrity and keeping it intact deserves your undivided attention.

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Latest kids book reviews – Chalice, Martha speaks, ghostgirl, Tinker Bell, Little Blue Truck

Chalice by Robin McKinley	Martha Speaks TV series and book	ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley	Tinker Bell DVD and book	Little Blue Truck by Alice Sherle

Talking with Kids about Tough Issues

http://www.talkingwithkids.org/
The Kaiser Foundation and Children Now offer “practical, concrete tips
and techniques for talking easily and openly with young children ages 8
to 12 about some very tough issues: sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and
alcohol.”

Toys that promote creativity

 

What are the best toys to promote creativity? and what are the best ways to choose?

Bring out the creativity in your children - click here for a set of articles so that you can get some ideas and a feel for what will suit your particular needs.  Then scroll down for the toys that our research shows are the best at promoting creativity.

Punishing video game violence: Does it reduce aggressive behavior?

Carmageddon 2 (source: Gamespot) is a gory racing game where players control drivers with names like “Max Damage” as they tear through city streets mowing down pedestrians and forcing competitors into bloody collisions. The game settings can be adjusted so that running down innocent bystanders actually increases a player’s point total. Surely, if there’s any video game that might raise a parent’s ire, Carmageddon 2 is one of them.
Studies have shown that violent video games are more likely than non-violent games to induce aggressive behavior, even after very short playing sessions. But more recent research (by Dmitri Williams and Marko Skoric) has suggested that violent game play does not always lead to aggression.

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