Internet For Kidz!

Learn everything there is to know about the internet with this guide for kids. Oh man, that theme tune’s going to be in my head for days now.

‘Why Does Everyone Hate You?’ [Barack Obama]

Barack Obama’s gets asked a tough question at a town hall meeting in New Orleans on Thursday. Fourth-grader, Tyren Scott asked the President ‘Why does everyone hate you?’. Hear what he had to say.

Things That Should Be Kept Out Of Reach Of Children (Venn Diagram)

It’s true, oh, it’s true.

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The Biggest Threats To Our Youth

A Gadget To Detect Autism In Children

LENA provides accurate and critical information about children’s language environment and speech patterns to help detect autism.

What is LENA? LENA is the only technology that automatically collects and analyzes information about a child’s natural language environment and development. The LENA feedback reports help parents improve a child’s cumulative language experience and accelerate that child’s language and cognitive development, and preparedness for school.
Who is LENA for? Parents and caregivers of children ages 0 to 4.

Why is it important? Several hundred research studies over the last 50 years document the importance of talking to and interacting with your baby, especially during the first three years. Groundbreaking research by two renowned university researchers, Drs. Betty Hart, Ph.D., and Todd Risley, Ph.D., revealed that the quantity of talk a child experienced between birth and age 3 directly correlated with the child’s IQ and vocabulary size. The LENA Foundation was founded based on the key elements of this study and our own normative study shows that saying 17,000 words per day, which is equal to the 85th percentile, will greatly enhance your child’s potential.

Who developed it? A team of world-class scientists, including experts in linguistics, speech recognition technology, computer engineering, speech analysis, statistics, speech language pathology, language research and developmental pediatrics. Recognizing that achievement gaps already exist at kindergarten entry, LENA was developed to give parents useful information to help ensure they are providing the richest language environment possible to their children during the critical years between birth and age 4, before they enter school.

How does it work? Parents follow a simple three-step process, 2-3 times a month:

1. In the morning, slip the LENA Digital Language Processor (DLP) into the pocket of specially designed LENA clothing.
2. At the end of the day, plug the DLP into your PC. The audio data will transfer and software analysis begins.
3. View your reports to analyze your conversations, identify patterns of talk throughout the day and receive percentile rank information.

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Is Your Baby Racist?

A newsweek article has provoked the question “is your baby racist?” Shocking it may seem, babies as young as six months judge others based on the color of the skin.

At the Children’s Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research. In 2006 Birgitte Vittrup recruited from the database about a hundred families, all of whom were Caucasian with a child 5 to 7 years old.

The goal of Vittrup’s study was to learn if typical children’s videos with multicultural storylines have any beneficial effect on children’s racial attitudes.

The report suggests that while many white parents want their children to grow up “colorblind”, i.e. with no preconceived views of a particular race, the vast majority of the kids in the test could see color as clear as crystal.

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Michelle Duggar Pregnant with 19th Child

Michelle Duggar is a 42-year-old mother of 18 children, but that wasn’t enough for Michelle, so now she’s pregnant again with number 19.

The announcement of the Duggars’ 19th child comes as their oldest child, Josh, 21, is about to become a father himself. Josh married last year and is expecting his first child, with Anna Duggan in October this year.

But that’s not the only extraordinary thing about the Duggans. All 18, of the Duggan children have names that begin with the letter ‘J’. The current family includes Josh, Jordyn-Grace, Jana, John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jeremiah, Jedidiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, and Jennifer. Now the family are looking for help in naming their 19th child.

“The success in a family is first off a love for God, and secondly treating each other like you want to be treated,” Mr Duggar said.

“Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen.”

Quit an extraordinary family, but I sure wouldn’t like to have to wait in the bathroom line in the Duggar household. The lag time between the first and last person having a shower must literally be days.

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Facebook & Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

Tunisian Woman Pregnant With 12 Babies

We heard about Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to 8 babies, but a Tunisian woman is reportedly pregnant with 4 more – 12 babies!

“The unnamed teacher and her husband are said to be ecstatic about the pregnancy, which was achieved with fertility treatment after they suffered two miscarriages. They are expecting six boys and six girls and the woman is thought to be as much as nine months’ pregnant.

But fertility experts have condemned the news, alleging the doctors who treated the couple are “irresponsible” and risking the health and lives of the mother and her babies.”

Imagine the shock you’d get if you found out that you were about to have 12 children. That’s a lot of diapers!

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