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Lucas Min

At Least 6 Killed in North Texas Tornado - 0 views

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    Thursday that they were no longer searching for survivors after a mile-wide tornado touched down here, killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others.
Makaylah Howard

Natural compound boosts Muscle Growth? - 1 views

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    Apparently their is a dietary supplement that will help the growth of your muscles. But is it illegal? It is a African plant and the athletes are using it.
Jordan Moody

Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail - Jessica Lahey - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • her daughter would receive a zero for the plagiarized paper.
  • parents who raise their children in a state of helplessness and powerlessness, children destined to an anxious adulthood, lacking the emotional resources they will need to cope with inevitable setback and failure.
  • Overparenting is characterized in the study as parents' "misguided attempt to improve their child's current and future personal and academic success."
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  • What worry me most are the examples of overparenting that have the potential to ruin a child's confidence and undermine an education in independence. According to the the authors, parents guilty of this kind of overparenting "take their child's perception as truth, regardless of the facts," and are "quick to believe their child over the adult and deny the possibility that their child was at fault or would even do something of that nature."
  • But children make mistakes, and when they do, it's vital that parents remember that the educational benefits of consequences are a gift, not a dereliction of duty
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    This is an interesting article for all you students who have parents who may be tempted in "overparenting." I am sure none of your parents do this but sometimes it can actually be detrimental to you when your parents help you with everything. Oftentimes, defending our mistakes will hurt us when owning up to our mistakes will improve our character.  Failing should be motivation not pity. 
Jordan Moody

Polynesian seafarers discovered America long before Europeans, says DNA study | MNN - M... - 1 views

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      Is it important to be the first to discover?  or the first to open the door for exploration, commerce, and settlement? 
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