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Traces problematic adult behaviors and conditions to negative habits formed in early childhood, recommending basic lifestyle adjustments to help prevent such health challenges as obesity, diabetes, depression, and heart disease.
Cuando los chicos empiezan a volverse adictos a la televisiÓn o a devorar puÑados de galletitas, es fÁcil decir "ya se les va a pasar cuando crezcan." Lo mÁs probable es que estÉn adquiriendo malas costumbres que pueden...
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"Before having kids, did you and your partner discuss at what age you would stop packing their lunches? Or whether you would use grounding as a punishment? Or if you'd require them to pay their own way through college? Most parents don't, and so are taken by surprise when disagreements over decisions like these begin to erode their marriage. Over the past decade, parent educator Vicki Hoefle has worked with countless couples who believed they had...
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"What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...
150) Get off my lawn!
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Mr. Smith’s pride and joy are his colorful flowers and perfectly manicured lawn. So, when he eyes the neighborhood kids traipsing through his yard and trampling his flowers, he roars "Get off my lawn!" The kids think he’s mean for ruining their fun, but one mom knows exactly where the blame belongs. Follow along as the children learn why they need to make amends for their behavior.--Publisher.
154) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
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"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...