I remember a mom, let’s call her Maria, sitting in my clinic, her hands twisting a tissue. "Dr. Anya," she said, her voice quiet, "my son, Ben, he’s so smart with words, with building things... #childdevelopment #dyscalculia #educationalsupport #learningdisorder #mathdifficulties #neurodivergent #numbersense

https://priya.health/dyscalculia/

Adopted and donor-conceived children were way less likely to confound nature and nurture than traditionally-conceived kids (ages 4 to 8).

And this difference wasn’t explained by differences in parents.

Here's the free preprint (otherwise paywalled in Developmental Psychology): https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3e8rj

AI doesn’t learn like we do. GoPro'd toddlers see mostly knees—but they can ID a dog after a few glimpses, while LLMs need billions of examples. Neuroscience suggests AI intelligence is gathered very differently than ours https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_neuroscience-ailiteracy-generativeai-activity-7312811017170808832-dwUW

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever, @DKThomp writes. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

“if two of the 20th century’s iconic technologies, the automobile and the television, initiated the rise of American aloneness, the 21st century’s most notorious piece of hardware has continued to fuel, and has indeed accelerated, our national anti-social streak. Countless books, articles, and cable-news segments have warned Americans that smartphones can negatively affect mental health and may be especially harmful to adolescents. But the fretful coverage is, if anything, restrained given how greatly these devices have changed our conscious experience.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/?gift=oca7ztDUcOY1799kH9SL4Oxh1f0rFPbdcs_z3fFCBRA

"In all nine countries, #boys were much more likely than #girls to claim that they knew and understood the fake concepts. What’s more, the bullshitters believed their own bullshit. They thought they were better at maths than they were"

Why do some #men behave badly? I think I have the answer | Mary Ann Sieghart | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/06/why-do-some-men-behave-badly-i-think-i-have-the-answer

#GenderImbalance
#sexism
#patriarchy
#childdevelopment
#ChildEducation
#socialisation
#SocialLearning
#benevolentsexism

I’ve read that baby girls are held and soothed less than baby boys, and also that baby boys are held and soothed less than baby girls.

Can anyone point me to a study confirming either? #ChildDevelopment

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Only one form of discipline—verbal reasoning—is associated with positive developmental outcomes among young children, finds a new study led by Kaitlin Paxton Ward, PhD, LCSW.

Her team looked at 11 caregiver discipline behaviors and child outcomes across 60 countries.

Read the research brief here:
bit.ly/3IB8h9o

@SteamHeaterson The Duolingo folk have a great looking app for young kids: Duolingo ABC.

I haven’t tried it yet because it wasn’t available in the Norwegian App Store (until I messaged them about a month ago to ask them to make it available and it seems like they did!)

https://apps.apple.com/no/app/learn-to-read-duolingo-abc/id1440502568

#Arizona #education #tutoring #ChildDevelopment

'The web page for Arizona’s free tutoring program has been activated, the state Department of Education announced Friday. The Achievement Tutoring Program was designed for public district and charter school students in grades 3-8 who test below proficiency levels in reading, writing or math.'

https://ktar.com/story/5539976/arizona-department-of-education-activates-website-for-free-tutoring-program/

#children #ChildDevelopment #PublicHealth #lead #racism #SystemicRacism

'Living in a racially segregated neighborhood puts Black children at a higher risk of having elevated blood lead levels, and this association has persisted over more than two decades, according to new research from the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative, which is led by University of Illinois Chicago Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda.'

https://today.uic.edu/racial-segregation-lead-levels-children/

#children #ChildDevelopment #education #gov #GovernmentPolicy

'... the Zaentz Navigator shares early education policy strategies and innovations from all 50 states and select cities. Navigator users can easily find, learn about, and compare how states and cities are structuring, financing, expanding, and advancing early education.'

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/innovative-digital-tool-equips-policymakers-with-strategies-and-innovations-from-all-50-states-to-advance-and-strengthen-early-education-and-care-301906300.html

@AngharadHafod thanks so much for boosting that post on #childdevelopment

'Kids are hardwired to seek out meaningful connections', says this seven year old. Nah, really!

Molly Wright talk - How Every Child Can Thrive By Five.

#TEDtalk #science #brainhealth #mentalhealth #childdevelopment #serveandreturn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aISXCw0Pi94

Brilliant #Business Strategy - Stable Genius II, the insanity continues..

Elon Musk Defends George Soros Tweets And Other Conspiracy Theory Posts: “I’ll Say What I Want to Say, And If The Consequence Of That Is Losing Money, So Be It”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-defends-george-soros-233347094.html #Twitter #ChiefTwit #ElonMusk #Musk #GeorgeSoros #ConspiracyTheories #ChildDevelopment

I just read a fascinating review paper entitled:

How Do Children Value Animals? A Developmental Review - By Karri Neldner & Matti Wilks

Abstract:

"From a young age, children are deeply curious about animals. Stable patterns exist in the types of attitudes children display towards different kinds of animals: they love pets, value animals that are beautiful, and fear snakes and spiders (Borgi & Cirulli, 2015). Until recently, we’ve known little about what children think about the moral standing of animals, particularly relative to other entities, including humans. In this review, we synthesize the literature examining children’s perceptions of the moral worth of animals. We present factors about the animal, and factors about the judge (the child), shown to impact children’s evaluations of animal moral worth. Based on current evidence, we make the claim that children grant animals a high moral standing early on in childhood, but that this decreases during late childhood, throughout adolescence, and into adulthood. We provide some suggestions for the cognitive and cultural mechanisms that might drive these differences, and make recommendations for the field going forward."

I am keen to read the other papers published in PHAIR (Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations).

https://phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/phair/article/view/9907/9907.html

#HumanAnimalRelations #MoralCircle #MoralConcern #ChildDevelopment #MoralAttitudes #ValueJudgements #Animals

#introduction Social-media phobe persuaded to try mastodon by my husband who is fed-up of me looking over his shoulder and demanding he follow stuff I want to read about

I am passionate about the reintroduction of beavers to restore ecosystems.

I want to follow: people who post pretty pictures of the natural world, research in infant and child development, cute pics of animals, recipes and of course stories about beavers.

#introduction
Hi. My name is Chelsie, I’m from #Maine. I’m an #artist and have a master’s in #SocialWork. I’m passionate about #MentalHealth advocacy. I also have #ADHD and am in recovery from #anorexia.
Also:
#running #psychology #vegetarian #yoga #pagan #poetry #writing #EatingDisorder #EDRecovery #ChildDevelopment #squirrels #RandomThoughts #isopods

Very little #introduction: outside the university system now, with previous academic experience in the #UK and #Japan. Studied #linguistics (especially #phonology), #languageacquisition (L1/L2) and #education, the last of those focusing on #childdevelopment. Also a perennial language-learner, and native to #Yorkshire.