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Five years later, a richer, whiter New Orleans - New Orleans. STUDIOKITCHEN. PING ISLAND STRIKE. Traductor. Do-Re-Mi Promotes a Feeling of 'We' | Miller-McCune Online. How do you get a group of 4-year-olds to cooperate? New research suggests the answer may be as simple as a singing lesson. Singing together appears to inspire spontaneous cooperative and helpful behavior among 4-year-olds.
That’s the conclusion of new research that provides support for an intriguing theory regarding the evolutionary origins of music. Psychologists Sebastian Kirschner and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig gathered 96 4-year-olds from 16 German day care centers. The youngsters, from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, were broken up into pairs.
They then took part in a 20-minute experiment that felt to them like playtime. Kirschner introduced each pair of kids to a set of nine toy frogs, which could either be used as a simple toy or a musical instrument (by scraping its ridged back with a stick). Afterward, the children were presented with tubes filled with marbles. Haiti Six Months Later.
Chicago Mediator. Just Appease Me. Pearltrees videos. Subcity. Help. Emotional Care for Children After Disaster « OperationSAFE. Just as when children experience small personal disasters such as losing a favorite toy, being involved in a fight at school, or suffering an injury, meeting physical needs is only part of the solution. Children also have emotional needs; the need for reassurance, comfort, love and attention. Here are some great links to the experts on caring for children after a disaster. Some of the information is summarized here for easy reference but make sure to click through for much much more information on how to care for children after a disaster. Helping Children After a Disaster (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) Talking about the event with children can decrease their fear. What are some age-specific responses? Pre-School Children (age 1-5) — This age child is especially troubled by the disruption of their previously secure world and they are very fearful of being abandoned.
Suggestions to help reassure children include the following: (FEMA) Personal contact is reassuring. 5 Lessons Children Need to Avoid PTSD « OperationSAFE. The Risk of Low-Magnitude Stressors for Children’s Mental Health Two articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry struck me as pointing out a vital need in caring for children’s emotional health. The first article was on a recently published study comparing stress in children over 3-7 years of their life, the number of both low-magnitude stressors and extreme stressors and the risk of developing post traumatic stress disorder.
The findings affirmed what everyone expected that extreme stressors carry more risk, but what was surprising was that because low-magnitude stressors are four times as frequent as extreme stressors, they accounted for up to two-thirds of the cases of PTSD and half of the cases of sub-clinical PTSD. “Relative to low-magnitude stressors, extreme stressors place children at greater risk for post traumatic stress symptoms. Nevertheless, a sizable proportion of children manifesting post traumatic stress disorder symptoms experienced only a low-magnitude stressor.”
FIPSE MOBIS. News: FIPSE'S Freefall Continues. A textual analysis of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's speeches would turn up innumerable uses of a few key words: reform, improvement and, increasingly, innovation. The status quo in education at all levels is not sufficient, Duncan and his colleagues in the Obama Education Department frequently assert, which is why the administration has created (or sought to create) several new competitive funds aimed at stimulating new ideas.
"I want the department ... to become an engine of innovation that recognizes success and scales up best practices at the local level," Duncan said in one (typical) speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures in December. Under a restructuring of the Office for Postsecondary Education, department officials are expected to separate FIPSE's international programs from the main comprehensive grant program, and each of the two separate divisions of the office would have a new layer of bureaucracy between it and the department's senior management.