Imagine your favorite TV show. Now imagine that you REALLY like that show. Imagine that for you, it IS a great show, period. This goes beyond personal opinion, it seems like a fact. Now imagine that someone speaks poorly of that show. He says it is poorly written, poorly acted, and the entire premise is […]
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Toy guns and pretending
Research suggests that it is perfectly normal for kids to pretend to play with toy guns from time to time, and it might even help kids self-regulate better in real life. On a more concerning note, trying to educate kids about real guns and gun safety can be difficult, as other research shows that kids do not retain or employ […]
Read More »A new app to help with motivating kids to do chores
ChoreMonster is a new web and mobile app, that offers a timely list of seasonal chores you may not have considered, and funny little sounds and animated monster rewards for kids. Through a tie-in with Disney, ChoreMonster parents were able to reward kids with exclusive pre-release clips of the Pixar movie Inside Out in May and June. The company […]
Read More »Thoughts on perspective
“Just because you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there.” -Radiohead [i] * * * * “No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.” Occam’s Razor * * * * “The problem is not what you look at, but what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau * * […]
Read More »Same sex parents
Scientists agree that children raised by same-sex couples are in no way significantly different than children raised by parents of the opposite sex, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Oregon professor. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/06/25/no-difference-in-kids-with-same-sex-opposite-sex-parents-study-finds/
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