Tag Archive for 'smart kids'

News and Culture Five

News Round-Up Nov. 3: Switched at Birth, How to Explain the Justin Bieber Rumours and Rounding Up Some Child Geniuses

What we’re reading today:

1. Twelve-year-old Russian girls discover they were switched a birth. The doctor thinks the moms should have known better.

2. What do chefs feed their kids? Hint: It’s like what Anthony Rose said about getting his son to try lots of stuff.

3. Have you had to have a big serious talk about sex and babies and paternity allegations because your kid is a Justin Bieber fan?

4. Speaking of big talks with your young kids, what about explaining mixed race and same sex couples to young kids as they relate to babies and genes and all that? We love that Peggy Orenstein is taking over the Motherlode blog this week.

5. We don’t even know what to say about all these child geniuses.

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News and Culture Five

News Round-Up June 16: Handwriting, Fathers and Sons, Smart Kids and Smartphones

What we’re reading today:

 

1. Make your kids practice their cursive writing — it could make them smarter.

2. Is President Obama making Americans better dads?

3. GeekMom’s reasons for getting your kid a smartphone.

4. Do boys just turn into their dads? One Babble blogger has a miniature version of her husband running around the house.

5. Check out this aspiring musician learning to play the harmonica:

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