International Teacher Certificate

Was it possible these parents had done too much?

In her book Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children, Ann Hulbert recounts how there’s always been a tension among the various recommended parenting styles—the bonders versus the disciplinarians, the child-centered versus the parent-centered—with the pendulum swinging back and forth between them over the decades.

Yet the underlying goal of good parenting, even during the heyday of don’t-hug-your-kid-too-much advice in the 1920s (“When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument,” the behavioral psychologist John Watson wrote in his famous guide to child-rearing), has long been the same: to raise children who will grow into productive, happy adults.

Una ricerca del San Raffaele sostiene che il cervello di chi parla due lingue riesce a scegliere in situazioni conflittuali in modo più veloce e con meno sforzo, rispetto a chi ne usa una sola. Un vantaggio in termini di capacità cognitive che non ha niente a che fare con il linguaggio

Kindlon also observed that because we tend to have fewer kids than past generations of parents did, each becomes more precious.

Long work hours don’t help. “If you’ve got 20 minutes a day to spend with your kid,” Kindlon asked, “would you rather make your kid mad at you by arguing over cleaning up his room, or play a game of Boggle together? We don’t set limits, because we want our kids to like us at every moment, even though it’s better for them if sometimes they can’t stand us.”

In her book Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children, Ann Hulbert recounts how there’s always been a tension among the various recommended parenting styles—the bonders versus the disciplinarians, the child-centered versus the parent-centered—with the pendulum swinging back and forth between them over the decades.

As I reported this morning, International Baccalaureate actually plays a supporting role in a conspiracy theory hawked by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and many of her boosters back in Minnesota—one that helped kick-start her career when she was a home-school parent in Stillwater.

As these conservatives saw it, "sustainability," and more specifically a little-known United Nations agreement called Agenda 21, was the catalyst for a globalist takeover.

IBO students would be taught to revere the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and embrace a doctrine of moral relativsm that values gay rights, redistribution of wealth, and the notion that the earth itself is a living organism (think Avatar, I guess).

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Parting the Waters The Jordan River is now depleted by drought, pollution, and overuse. Could the fight to save it forge a path toward peace?

More than half of full-time employees in the U.S. eat at their desks at least once a week, according to a survey last year of 4,498 employees by jobs website CareerBuilder.com. And in their quest to be super-productive, never-missing-a-beat workers at their desks, office havoc can erupt. Seemingly otherwise normal, perfectly mannered, even buttoned-up executives can slurp, lick their lips or leave grubby plasticware around the office.

Per quanto riguarda l'alimentazione, molti ricordano con nostalgia i tempi della nonna: si mangiava meglio, ma forse avevamo meno cibo e ci si muoveva di più. La macchina era un lusso che poche persone potevano concedersi, quindi si camminava di più, si mangiava un po' di meno ed eravamo tutti più in forma.

La fotografia come strumento di aiuto alla ricerca e lo studio per la ricostruzione delle zone terremotate in Pianura Padana. E' il progetto lanciato dall'Istituto nazionale di geofisica e vulcanologia e Fotografia Reflex. L’iniziativa è finalizzata alla raccolta documentale delle immagini degli eventi sismici, scattate dai ricercatori dell'Ingv, permettendo di elaborare informazioni utili, in particolare per la ricostruzione di edifici storici. Nella foto un esempio di frattura cosismica del suolo: deformazione istantanea e permanente della superficie terrestre