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Psychologists have long stated that families of higher income and education levels talk more with their children and speak to them in complex sentences. But the study is one of the first to focus on whether gestures, too, have an influence on vocabulary and school preparedness.
2009-02-13
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Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police. Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles.
2009-10-28
paedophilia playground child UK incredibleA study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures.
2009-12-07
child psychology egoismAccording to Keith Hudson, polymath extraordinaire, one of the greatest meta-discoveries in the last 10 years is that "each of us grows millions of new neurons during our lifetime."
2010-01-01
neuroscience neuron child thinking brainFrances Inglis has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of killing her 22-year-old son Thomas. What drove a mother to inject her own child with a fatal dose of heroin when she was already on bail for a previous attempt at taking his life?
2010-01-20
murder compassion mercy son child mother heroinHaitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad.
2010-01-31
Haiti orphan child trafficking religion war profiteering adoption abductionAlthough 4-year-olds’ concept of time often seems to consist solely of what they want right now, the passage of time still moves them. By that age, kids already mark time by referring to physical distances.
2010-02-13
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