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Written by Jessica Yellin - CNN
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
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Article Source: CNN
Rockwell, a father of two, became frustrated when he took his kids to traditional playgrounds. He found that these play areas lacked creativity.
"Traditional playgrounds are geared toward gross motor skills and linear play ... they are largely made of fixed equipment: seesaws, slides, monkey bars, swings," Rockwell said. "They are fantastic places to build gross motor skills." So he decided to design a playground that focused on building imagination by letting the kids build the playground themselves.
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Written by TARA PARKER-POPE - International Herald Tribune
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Monday, 28 June 2010 |
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Article Source: International Herald Tribune
In today’s New York Times, Jan Hoffman explores the thorny issues that schools face in dealing with cyberbullying, those vicious text messages and Facebook postings students often use to hurt each other. She writes that one in five middle-school students has been cyberbullied — through cellphone texts, social networking sites, instant messages and online games, according to a 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, a think tank founded by two criminologists.
Do you need more information about cyberbullying? Elizabeth K. Englander is a professor of psychology and the founder and director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State College, which provides anti-bullying and anti-violence training programs and resources to schools and families.
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Written by Stephanie Steinberg, USA TODAY
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
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Article Source: USA Today
Taylor Bernard, 8, has enviously watched her twin sister excel in sports. But Taylor, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, found her own way to shine: through painting. "It's just something that I can do that makes me have inspiration and confidence," Taylor says.
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Written by Amanda Paulson - CS Monitor
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
As part of her campaign against childhood obesity, Michelle Obama helped launch the ‘Let’s Read. Let’s Move.’ program involving exercise, healthy eating, and reading during the summer break.
School is out for much of the country, and kids everywhere are looking forward to a few months off. But nutrition and education experts warn that for too many kids, summer break is also a time when they backslide educationally and fall into bad eating habits.
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Written by Cindy Sutter - The Daily Camera
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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Article Source: The Daily Camera
How do you help children eat better? Let them play with their food.
That's Karen Laszlo's philosophy and the impetus for starting a new web site, zisboombah.com, that allows children to create a meal dragging and dropping food items, with pictures, to a plate. When the meal it complete, the kids get a health rating for the plate. Five stars is the highest.
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