News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. Psychologists and linguists take on the secret languages of twins.
2. Did yesterday’s earthquake cause your kids to panic at all? (Or maybe they didn’t even feel it?) In case it did give them a scare, here’s how to explain it and make them feel safe.
3. Should you get your kids a genetically modified pet?
4. Another kid hero: a 12-year-old boy delivers his own brother. Didn’t we see that on Malcolm in the Middle?
5. Is this how your kids are feeling about school?
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News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1.How do babies learn language? Researchers have found that babies have a eureka moment where a word and its meaning just clicks, rather than building up that association over time.
2.Speaking of language, how did we come to call a child born out of wedlock a love child?
3.Prozac’s active ingredient has been found in the Great Lakes and it’s killing E. coli. So, is this making swimming in the Lake Erie safer, or is this stuff also killing non-harmful things and we’re just further messing up this eco-system? We’d love to find out as Great Lake Swimming is awesome. (As are Great Lake Swimmers)
4. A Geek Mom on the importance of storytime. Or is that just the importance of Curious George?
5. And not like you need us to tell you this, but tell your daughter she’s pretty. Some girls don’t grow up feeling it. Read more...
