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Music training enhances a brain function that dies away.  Studies show that early experiences of childhood determine which brain cells (neurons) will connect with other brain cells, and which ones will die away. Because neural connections are responsible for all types of intelligence, a child’s brain develops to its full potential only with exposure to the necessary music enriching experiences in early childhood. (Music Beats Computers at Enhancing Early Childhood Development, American Music Conference via PR NEWSWIRE: Neurological Research, February 1997)

Music achieves non-musical positive effects.  It has been shown that children develop faster socially, mentally, and even physically when exposed to music in their early childhood. "Thus, it appears that music studied for good and sufficient reasons for its own sake has beneficial ‘side effects’ on cognition." (Rausher, F.H.,Shaw G.I., Levine, L.J., Ky, K.N. & Wright, E.I. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA., August 13, 1994.)

Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions

Strategy and anticipation

Developing reading and math skills

Perseverance

Memory                o    Reasoned judgments               

Estimating skills                o    Inductive reasoning and hypothesis testing

Mapping

Pattern recognition

Teamwork and cooperation when played with others

Simulation, real world skills

Too much video game playing makes your kid socially isolated.  Also, he may spend less time in other activities such as doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends.   Video games do not exercise your kid’s imaginative thinking.  Using imagination may be important in developing creativity.   Some video games teach kids the wrong values.  Violent behavior, vengeance and aggression are rewarded.  Negotiating and other nonviolent solutions are often not options.  Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless or sexually provocative.    Games can confuse reality and fantasy. Academic achievement may be negatively related to over-all time spent playing video games. Studies have shown that the more time a kid spends playing video games, the poorer is his performance in school.  (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004) Video games may also have bad effects on some children’s health, including obesity, video-induced seizures. and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders, such as tendonitis, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome. When playing online, your kid can pick up bad language and behavior from other people, and may make your kid vulnerable to online dangers.

incessant communication

does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development

solipsistic,

"being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,

ubiquitous

requires literacy

Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.

we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.

Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.

Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes

Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility

education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.

real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems

that all knowledge is social.

When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles

multiple frames of reference

where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.

we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar

answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.

Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth

f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.

"personal learning network,"

Even thoug

difficulty sharing with peers, prefers adult company, and uses adult language

oldest child

authoritarian and feel power is their right but can become helpful if encouraged.

lpful if en

turn to the father for reassurance after the birth of the next child.

second child

overtake the older child, which leads to rivalry.

more competitive

rebel or try to outdo everyone

the middle child may be even-tempered, assuming a “take it or leave it” attitude

trouble finding a place and thus become a fighter of injustice

youngest is frequently spoiled and may never be dethroned of their place as the baby of the family

ig plans fueled by the desire to outdo the others

Adler did document exceptions

birth order is sometimes not a major influence on personality development and that the child's opinion of himself and his situation determines his choice of attitude

mélange of two distinct sciences: sociology and psychology

Like all sciences, social psychology searches for concrete proof before belief

“the biologizing of human beings is not only bad humanism, but also bad science.”

study at Ohio State University conducted in the winter of 2001 showed that birth order affects career interests. In the Journal of Career Assessment, researchers noted that only children and first born children tended to have more cognitive and analytical interests, while those later-born were more artistic and outdoors oriented.

twenty-five types of marriages according to birth order

most common marital relationship is between an only child and a second child, and it has a fairly high rate of success, while first born-first born relationships seem to rarely happen. Firstborns are less likely to connect romantically.

seems to have no scientific proof

influence of being the first born of a specific gender, the influence of changing family dynamics, and the potential for methodical pitfalls in birth order research interest not only studies on birth order, but the research of many other social trends.