Welcome back to the Babies Online Blog! If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and be the first to get breaking parenting news and take advantage of our member only giveaways. Thanks for visiting!Groundbreaking medical research completed by a team at the Institute of Cancer Research, a college [...]
Tags: cancer cells, placenta, Pregnancy, Research
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Spanking then
Spanking is supposedly a thing of the past. Just a generation ago, spanking was a common form of discipline. I remember being spanked a couple of times although I don’t think that I was especially problematic as a child. I also remember, coming from a big family with 6 children, that my parents set [...]
Tags: behavioral problems, discipline, punishment, Research, spanking
Posted in: Parenting
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Apparently, it’s not because they want to make us tear out our hair. Researchers at the University of Colorado have been studying toddlers and older children, and they’ve decided that toddlers just don’t think the way adults and older children do.
Toddlers live in the present, as the parent of any toddler knows very well. Only [...]
Tags: brain development, learning, Research, Toddlers
Posted in: Toddlers
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Discovery Kids, Sesame Street, Cartoon Netowrk, Disney Channel,…
The choices are almost endless. They are supposed to enhance a little child’s language and cognitive skills. But are they really beneficial as they claim to be?
Dimitri Christakis, a researcher at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the University of Washington says such claims are not supported by [...]
Tags: benefits, DVDs, Research, Toddlers, TV, TV programs
Posted in: Parenting
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Two research studies on the health of premature babies. One gives promising results, the other gives disappointing outcomes.
This research gives hope to parents of preemies. Researchers at the University of Adelaide, Australia found that a fatty acid in the brain is not well-developed when babies are born before the 33rd week of pregnancy. The lipid [...]
Tags: Health, preemies, premature, Research
Posted in: Baby, Health
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