Page 14 - Parent Guide News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Toggle open close The COVID-19 pandemic has presented parents with an opportunity to reassess what their children are being taught in schools across the country. The pandemic created “accidental homeschoolers” of more than 50 million school-aged children and their parents, and in so doing, gave many the opportunity to take an in-depth look at what public schools are teaching. This opportunity came at the same time that schools began to adopt The New York Times’ 1619 Project, with an estimated 4,500 classrooms having incorporated the content.REF Although The 1619 Project and civics inst...

Area 6-year-olds to receive free gift book from The Ambassador Company Written By: News Staff | × (File photo) Through the sponsorship of local community leaders, area 6-year-olds are receiving a bound gift book about positive character-building traits entitled "My Favorite Book." The volume is illustrated and is organized in such a way to teach positive citizenship values to the children, said a news release from The Ambassador Company. The core traits covered in My Favorite Book include: the importance of family and taking personal responsibility, the need for kindness and compassion, ...

So often, we'll take the latter. But why is that? There's actually a psychological reason why we love returning to our old favorite shows and films again, and again, and again. As explained in a 2012 study from the University of Chicago Press published in the Journal of Consumer Research, the act of "reconsumption" like rereading a favorite book or sitting in your go-to booth at a local diner can bring humans great pleasure. In scientific speak, "Unlike the survival motives that drive evolutionary psychology, we find that consumers who chose to repeat hedonic experiences even just once are e...

To the Editor: Think about giving this book as a holiday present to parents and friends interested in climate change and doing something about it: "The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution – 100 ways to build a fossil-free future, raise empowered kids, and still get a good night’s sleep" by Mary DeMocker, New World Library, 2018. Mary deMocker has written an inspiring book jammed packed with over 100 ways to empower your children to learn about climate change and do something about it. The ideas are not only a practical guide for helping kids but a practical guide for living. I...