We published this story and got a whole bunch of attention. It was in the New York Times and Time Magazine, all over the place, because it was really the first to show that not only is reading to children good for them in terms of building skills, but it actually is related to measurable differences in their brain that supports reading and literacy at a pretty young age. These were all preschool-age kids.
We wanted to see if this was true in these younger kids. Our hypothesis was kids with higher scores in The Reading House, we would expect they would have thicker cortex grey matter in that left part of their brain. We got about 70 kids that came in for MRI. They were from all different backgrounds, about half boys, half girls. We had them go through MRI and then we looked at it.
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In fact, that is what we found. We found that kids that had higher scores on The Reading House measure had thicker cortex in parts of their brain, in their temporal lobes, which are areas supporting language, in their frontal lobes, an area supporting expressive language and speech and writing, and then in the parts of their brain in the back supporting visual processing of letters and words. This is really the first evidence that this architecture of this network structure, the foundation of it is there as young as three and four years old, and has already been starting to be shaped by not only these early experiences at home, but even those early skills at age three and four relate to fundamental differences in what the brain looks like.
Distinguished author Jane Yolen has created a gentle, poetic story that lovingly depicts the special companionship of a young child and her father as well as humankind's close relationship to the natural world.
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The slightly true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the plains. Apples, ho! Get a Family Book Club Guide and listen to the author and illustrator talk about making this book in RAR Premium.
In a small apartment, in a tall, round building by a park, next to a river in the middle of a big city, there lived three children, H, Little O, and Baby EM. In a small bowl, next to a lamp, in the middle of a table, beside the curtains in the small apartment, there lived three goldfish, Barracuda, Patch and Fiss.
An old fountain stood at the end of their street. It was broken and covered in ivy. No one used it anymore except to throw garbage in. But the children thought it was beautiful. On top of the fountain there perched, as if he just landed or was just about to fly off, a magnificent stone eagle with out-stretched wings.
All through the hot summer, H, Little O, and Baby Em stopped by to say hello to their goldfish, and so did the other goldfish parents. Soon all the children looked forward to meeting each other at the fountain. Every day they played together. And every day Grandpa came and put his chair down and chatted with the children who sat and listened.
Before they knew it, it was the end of the summer. The man told the goldfish parents that the only way to catch their fish was to come in the fountain, to wade into the water with their nets. And so all the children took off their sandals, jumped, and splashed, and laughed in the fountain. And then Grandpa took off his sandals too, and rolled up his trousers and paddled. And he said it was like those days long ago when he was a boy.
And the children laughed because they knew it was true. And so the goldfish, who may have been Barracuda, and Patch, and Fiss, or some other goldfish altogether, went back to being fish in a bowl. And the children went back to being children in school.
Raising A Reader is a national program designed to educate parents and caregivers about the importance of early literacy skills and how they can help build these skills in their young children to help them enter school ready to learn.
Independent evaluations conducted at the national level show that parents reported a 471% increase in time spent sharing stories with their children (five or more times a week) and Spanish-speaking families increased library visits with their children by 300%.
Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski was born June 7, 1991[5] in Westminster, London, the only child of American parents, school teachers Kathleen Anne Balgley and John David "J.D." Ratajkowski.[8][9][10] She was raised in Encinitas near San Diego, California. She attended UCLA for a year before dropping out to model full-time.[11] Her father was raised Roman Catholic, whereas her mother is Jewish.[8] Ratajkowski has stated that she ethnically identifies herself as "Polish-Israeli."[4] She also has English, Irish, and German ancestry.[12][13]
Ratajkowski tried soccer, acting, and ballet before modeling.[3] She participated in a few local theater productions as a child and young teen.[14] Exposure to the nude female figure in photography and art during her formative years, including the work of her father and the photography of Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts, prepared Ratajkowski for nude work. She has said, "We have this culture of men, especially, watching pornography, but then offended by a classic nude portrait or photograph, and I've never felt that way."[15] She was also influenced by third-wave feminism and works such as The Beauty Myth and Promiscuities by Naomi Wolf.[16]
On the eve of the February 2016 New Hampshire Democratic primary, Ratajkowski spoke at a Bernie Sanders rally in New Hampshire to endorse his campaign.[263][264][265] One of the main points of her speech, and her social media activity surrounding it, was to counter Gloria Steinem's statement that young female Sanders supporters were involved in the campaign to meet potential male romantic partners.[266][267] In 2020, she again endorsed Sanders for the Democratic nomination.[268][269]
On February 23, 2018, Ratajkowski announced on Instagram that she had married actor and producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, her boyfriend of several weeks, in a New York City courthouse wedding.[272] They lived in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan and in Los Angeles.[273][274] On October 26, 2020, Ratajkowski confirmed she was pregnant in a Vogue essay writing about how she and her husband did not wish to discuss their child's sex.[275][276] She gave birth to their son[277] on March 8, 2021.[278][279] In July 2022, Ratajkowski split with Bear-McClard.[280] In September, she filed for divorce.[281]
Using a car seat, also called a child safety seat, is the best way to protect your kids when they're in a car. Car crashes are one of the leading causes of death and injury for children. Because car seats save lives, using a car seat is the law in every U.S. state.
Infant car seats should always be installed to face the rear of the car. A small child is much less likely to die or be seriously injured when in a rear-facing seat. That's because the back of the safety seat will cradle the baby's head, neck, and torso in a crash. At this age, a child's neck usually isn't strong enough to support the head in a crash.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants and toddlers ride in a rear-facing seat until they reach the highest weight and height limits recommended by the seat's manufacturer. Safety experts say to do this based on a child's size, not age. Small children can stay rear-facing until age 3 or 4.
When combined with safety belts, air bags protect adults and teens from serious injury during a collision. They have saved lives and prevented many serious injuries. But young children can be injured or even killed if they are riding in the front passenger seat when an air bag opens.
Diagnosis and treatment of children affected by disruptions of attachment (out of home placement, multiple changes of primary caregiver) is an area of considerable controversy. The possible contribution of psychobiological theories is discussed in three parts. The first part relates the attachment theoretical perspective to major psychobiological theories on the developmental associations of parent-child relationships and emotional response. The second part reviews studies of autonomic reactivity and HPA-axis activity with foster children, showing that foster children show more reactivity within physiological systems facilitating fight or flight behaviours rather than social engagement, especially foster children with atypical attachment behaviour. The third part is focused on treatment of children suffering from the consequences of disrupted attachment, based on a psychotherapy study with psychophysiological outcome measures. Implications are discussed for theory, diagnosis, and intervention.
According to Hofer, parent-child relationships support a range of regulatory processes, including thermoregulation, food intake, tactile stimulation, imitation, and emotional attunement, to name a few. Separation from the parent results in a complete withdrawal of all these regulatory influences, which implicates that children would have to fall back on alternative self-regulatory processes. Because young children's self-regulatory capacities are few and immature, prolonged reliance on these systems may contribute to maladaptive development. Another implication of Hofer's view is that the impact on developmental outcomes of disruptions as well as variations in quality of parent-child interaction may be mediated by multiple and sometimes interrelated regulatory processes, including but not limited to the attachment behavioural system proposed by Bowlby. This would explain why attachment disruptions appear to have consequences for functioning and development that are not confined to the domain of close personal relationships, including behavioural maladjustment and cognitive development [10]. A recent epidemiological study on adult women with a history of foster care reported negative outcomes in the domains of mental and physical health, smoking, educational attainment, obesity, and poverty [11]. Compelling findings in this regard were from a longitudinal sample of high risk families, assessed from infancy to adolescence with a broad array of observational measures and reports from parents as well as teachers [12]. This study showed increases in teacher reported behaviour problems after foster placement, compared to children remaining in their own homes with their maltreating parents, taking into account baseline adaption and SES. In the long term, children placed out of home showed levels of behavioural maladjustment similar to the children remaining with maltreating parents, and heightened as compared to children growing up in high risk families with adequate parenting. 2ff7e9595c
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