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Research shows that children who experience puberty earlier than their peers are more likely to begin drinking alcohol at a young age and early alcohol exposure is also known to be related to alcohol dependence later in life. Specifically, adolescents who mature early are two to three times more likely to drink than other youth. In addition, early maturing girls are two to three times more likely to drink until intoxication and three times as likely to have an alcohol use disorder. A new study examined why early developing 14-year-old adolescents are more likely to drink alcohol compared to those whose pubertal development is on-time or late. The findings show these adolescents are more likely to have peers who drink alcohol and are also given greater permission to drink by their parents.
Early puberty may encourage parent leniency with teen drinking, study finds
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Adolescents born preterm have similar self-esteem/wellbeing levels to those born full-term
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Kids Who Have Regular Bedtimes Are More Successful Adults Inc. 2/27/2021
The same thing that improves adults moods and increases success works for kids, too.
As a parent, I know that bedtime can be a struggle, especially with younger kids. But it s backed by science: Kids who have regular bedtimes at young ages wind up with better math skills, better reading skills, and better spatial awareness all of which can lead to a cascade of positive results.
The study is exactly the kind of research I include in my free ebook,
How to Raise Successful Kids, which you can download here. It comes to us from the ESRC International Centre For Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health in England.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. It was Winston Churchill who made that saying famous. He was speaking in 1940 when the future of the nation was at stake.
Even Covid can’t compete with that. But what we do face today is a crisis in education and, no, it has not been created by shutting down our schools.
When the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced this week that teachers will have almost complete control over deciding exam grades this summer, it was seen as an emergency measure. Pretty soon, Covid willing, things will be back to normal.
That’s great if ‘normal’ means children going to school but not so great if we continue to treat schools as exam factories.