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  • March 2008

    • Why Do Kids Love to Cuss?

      NPR  |  Mar 27, 08 12:34 PM CDT

      Why Do Kids Love to Cuss?

      (Newser) - Kids swear. They swear like sailors. Why is that, and should parents be worried? NPR decided to investigate and found, logically enough, that kids swear because they pick up the words from others, particularly mom and dad. “That’s just language learning,” says psychologist Paul Bloom. “These words have no special status as taboo words. Learning they’re taboo words is a later step.” More »

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      children  • parenting  • obscenity  • swearing

    • Cost of Bringing Up Baby: $204K

      Reuters  |  Mar 25, 08 9:27 AM CDT

      Cost of Bringing Up Baby: $204K

      (Newser) - Raising that little bundle of joy will come with a not-so-cute $204,060 price tag for middle-income families, according to a new government study. Factoring in inflation, the parents of a child born in 2007 can expect to spend $269,040 by the time that baby turns 18. Actual costs vary according to income and location, with the urban West the most expensive region to raise children and rural areas the least expensive. And, of course, the little darlings become more expensive as they get older. More »

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      children  • food  • education  • housing  • parents  • USDA  • child care  • urban Midwest

    • UK Teachers Blame Parents for Bratty Kids

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Mar 22, 08 3:50 PM CDT

      UK Teachers Blame Parents for Bratty Kids

      (Newser) - UK teachers complain that classrooms are getting tougher to control because kids throw more tantrums—and parents are to blame, the Daily Telegraph reports. A Cambridge University study says that parents are letting children indulge in video games, junk food, and TV. "Teachers described highly permissive parents who admitted to indulging their children, often for the sake of peace or simply because they had run out of alternative incentives or sanctions," the report said. More »

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      children  • video game  • education  • parenting  • parents  • teacher  • junk food  • elementary school  • teachers' unions

    • Flu Closes Hong Kong Schools

      Associated Press  |  Mar 13, 08 8:51 AM CDT

      Flu Closes Hong Kong Schools

      (Newser) - Over half a million children in Hong Kong are starting their Easter holiday early today after a flu outbreak led the government to order schools to close, AP reports. All kindergartens and primary schools in the densely populated territory will be shut down for two full weeks. Three children have died, but health officials stress that there is no evidence of any more virulent strain than the usual flu virus, and bird flu is not thought to be a factor. More »

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      health  • children  • outbreak  • Hong Kong  • World Health Organization  • flu  • school holidays

    • Memphis Kids Survived Horrific Attack

      Commercial Appeal (Memphis)  |  Mar 7, 08 2:36 PM CST

      Memphis Kids Survived Horrific Attack

      (Newser) - Details emerging from the killing of four adults and two children in Memphis reveal a brutal attack during which the victims—including at least two of the three children who survived—were tortured, the Commercial Appeal reports. Police have uncovered no suspects or motive, and the governor has raised the reward for information in the case to $80,000. More »

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      children  • toddler  • Memphis killings  • Phil Bredesen  • Cecil Dotson

    • Why Girls Are Better at Language

      Scientific American  |  Mar 6, 08 11:12 AM CST

      Why Girls Are Better at Language

      (Newser) - Study after study has found that girls have better language skills than boys, and scientists now think they've found a biological reason why, Scientific American reports. Researchers discovered that girls showed more activity in the language part of their brains, which deciphers abstract encoding, than boys. The boys had more activity in the regions of the brain linked to auditory and visual function. More »

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      children  • education  • research  • language  • neurology  • neuroscience  • fMRI

    • Global Child Sex Ring Busted

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 6, 08 11:00 AM CST

      Global Child Sex Ring Busted

      (Newser) - Detectives coordinated by the FBI have busted a global pedophile ring and rescued eight children in the UK, reports the Guardian . Some 22 arrests have been made in the US, Britain and Australia, and 400,000 images of child abuse seized. Police, moving in after a two-year investigation, said the sex-abuse ring was one of the most sophisticated they have ever seen. More »

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      children  • FBI  • child abuse  • child pornography  • pedophile

    • Memphis Massacre Kids Under Guard

      Associated Press  |  Mar 6, 08 9:52 AM CST

      Memphis Massacre Kids Under Guard

      (Newser) - Memphis police are keeping a tight watch on three seriously wounded children who could be key to solving the murder of six people—including two other kids—at a brick house in a tough neighborhood over the weekend. Police aren’t allowing any visitors, including relatives. They’ve also declined to identify the children, slain or living. More »

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      murder  • crime  • children  • Memphis  • Memphis killings  • Cecil Dotson

    • For Britney, It's a Dance-Dance Revolution

      People  |  Mar 5, 08 2:44 PM CST

      For Britney, It's a Dance-Dance Revolution

      (Newser) - Britney Spears has become a semi-regular children's dance instructor at a North Hollywood studio—and her students love her. "Britney is nice," 5-year-old Elissa Bouganim tells People . "I want to dance with Britney all the time because it's so much fun." Elissa gave the on-the-mend pop princess a picture of Tinkerbell to show her gratitude. More »

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      children  • Britney Spears  • parents  • dance  • dance class

    • India Will Pay Families for Daughters

      AFP  |  Mar 4, 08 2:10 PM CST

      India Will Pay Families for Daughters

      (Newser) - India will start handing out cash to families in return for raising daughters, reports AFP. The culture's preference for sons results in sex-selection abortions, which are illegal but have skewed the country's sex ratio. Poor families with girls in states with the worst sex ratios will receive a series of payments, with a bonus should the child reach 18 unmarried and having finished her education. More »

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      children  • India  • abortion  • dowry  • sex ratio

    • 2 Toddlers, 4 Adults Shot Dead in Memphis Home

      Commercial Appeal (Memphis)  |  Mar 4, 08 7:39 AM CST

      2 Toddlers, 4 Adults Shot Dead in Memphis Home

      (Newser) - Memphis police found two toddler girls and four adults shot dead in a home in the city's Binghamton neighborhood yesterday. Three other young children have been taken to a local hospital with gunshot wounds and are said to be critically injured, reports the Commercial Appeal. Police say the shootings happened Sunday night but the bodies weren't discovered until a relative of one of the children went to the house yesterday. More »

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      children  • shooting  • Tennessee  • homicide  • Memphis  • Memphis killings  • gunshots

    • Reports of Horror at UK Orphanage Extend to 2007

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 3, 08 11:15 AM CST

      Reports of Horror at UK Orphanage Extend to 2007

      (Newser) - British police are investigating charges that assaults at a notorious children's home occurred as recently as late last year, the Guardian reports. The revelation is the latest twist in an unraveling tale of sexual and physical abuse at the government-run home on the island of Jersey. Detectives said at least one suspect has threatened a victim, and they warned others not to follow suit. More »

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      Great Britain  • children  • child abuse  • child molestation  • orphans  • Jersey  • Haut de la Garenne  • children's home

    • J.Lo Names Her Twins: Max and Emme

      E! Online  |  Mar 1, 08 1:43 PM CST

      J.Lo Names Her Twins: Max and Emme

      (Newser) - Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have lifted the lid on their newborn twins' names: Max and Emme. The celebrity couple declined to make the names public after the boy and girl were born Feb. 22 at a Long Island hospital. The new arrivals are now home safe and sound, E! Online reports. They are J.Lo's first children, while Anthony has three from two previous relationships. More »

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      celebrity  • children  • celebrity pregnancy  • twins  • babies  • name  • Marc Anthony  • J.Lo

    • Obama Riffs on Clinton Scare Ad

      Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 1, 08 7:28 AM CST

      Obama Riffs on Clinton Scare Ad

      (Newser) - Barack Obama threw Hillary Clinton's "red phone" ad right back at her yesterday—with a twist, the Chicago Tribune reports. Clinton's ad showed sleeping children, with a voice intoning that it's 3am, and a phone is ringing the White House. “Who do you want answering the phone?” Barack's rejoinder, with almost identical imagery: “When that call gets answered, shouldn’t the president be the one—the only one—who had the judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq war from the start?”  More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Iraq war  • children  • Texas  • advertising  • Ohio  • Texas primary  • Ohio primary  • campaign advertising

  • February 2008

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