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Smarter Ways to Discipline Children
- Home & Family
- December 29, 2012
Techniques that psychologists often use effectively with the most difficult kids, including children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, can work well on typical kids, too. Approaches, with names like "parent management training" and "parent-child interaction therapy," are backed up by hundreds of research studies, but their tactics remain little known among
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Pesticide Used by Farmers is Linked to Long-Term Brain Damage
- Environmental Well-Being
- December 24, 2012
A new study suggests an alarming link between low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides – the most widely used insecticides in the world – and long-term brain damage. The Ecologist, 12/14/2012
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‘Duty’ kid: Game over
- Making a Positive Difference
- December 24, 2012
A 12-year-old from Newtown, CT decided to stop playing violent video games after the tragedy in his town. Now he's trying to get other young people to follow his example by throwing away their violent video games at a dump site. The boy's parents helped him to set up a Facebook group called "Played Out"
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How to Raise Giving Children
- Home & Family
- December 24, 2012
In a time when families are struggling to make giving part of their budget, with donations still 11 percent below pre-recession rates, childrens' generosity is more heartening than ever before. Here are some ways for kids to give back — with or without money — at every age. The Huffington Post, 12/18/2012
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Stop Mocking the Gym Majors
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- December 24, 2012
Once the butt of jokes, college athletes who study kinesiology are now landing high-paying jobs. The commercial and academic value of exercise studies is dramatically increasing. The Wall Street Journal, 12/20/2012
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Surgeons Still Make Preventable Mistakes
- Health & Healing
- December 24, 2012
Researchers at John Hopkins University have found that within the past 20 years, there were close to 10,000 reported instances when a foreign object was left in a patient, the wrong surgery was performed, or the surgery was performed on the wrong patient or wrong part of the body. These surgeries cost the healthcare industry
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Caregiver lives rerouted yet enriched by aging parents
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- December 21, 2012
According to data from the National Alliance for Caregiving, an estimated 65 million people in the U.S. are unpaid family caregivers. Many baby boomers are caregivers for elderly parents, and they have to adjust life plans accordingly. They face their own set of unique challenges, physically and emotionally. CNN, 12/11/2012
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How to talk to kids about school shooting: controlling your fears, calming theirs
- Home & Family
- December 19, 2012
As countries around the world mourn the tragedy that occurred in Newtown, Conn., parents are struggling to figure out how to talk to their children about what happened. Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz says parents definitely need to talk to their children about the shooting, because "it's such a huge story, it's better that they hear
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How Christy Turlington Is Using Her Star Power To Help Mothers Around The World
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- December 15, 2012
Former supermodel Christy Turlington Burns is helping to bring aid and awareness to the hundreds of thousands of preventable pregnancy-related deaths around the world. In 2003, Turlington Burns experienced life-threatening post-partum hemorrhaging. She recovered, but the experience got her thinking, “What would have happened to a less fortunate woman?” What she discovered changed her life:
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The Boy on the Lake
- Making a Positive Difference
- December 15, 2012
At only 13, Trevor Schaefer was diagnosed with brain cancer. Not only did Trevor end up beating the cancer — he found a calling. Now 22, Schaefer is an inspiring advocate for children with cancer, and the driving force behind "Trevor's Law," an important bill that would give government more authority to hold companies responsible
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How Do We Design an Education to Employment System That Works?
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- December 15, 2012
According to a recent report from the McKinsey Center for Global Governance, 43 percent of employers say there aren't enough applicants with the knowledge and skills they need. At the same time, 75 million young people are unemployed. So, how do we solve this mismatch between workers' knowledge and skills, and employers' needs? To find the
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‘Still Out of Work?’ How to Handle Holiday Small Talk
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- December 15, 2012
For the long-term unemployed, holiday gatherings can be uncomfortable. When people who have been jobless for years encounter acquaintances they only see during the holidays, how can they handle awkward conversations about work or job prospects? Even for those who have jobs, holiday parties can be a conversational minefield. Job coaches suggest carefully framing questions to
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Is everything we know about cholesterol wrong?
- Health & Healing
- December 15, 2012
Dr. Oz sits down with doctors Stephen Sinatra and Jonny Bowden to discuss their controversial stance on cholesterol. They don't believe high cholesterol causes heart disease. Instead, they believe inflammation and sugar play large roles in the development of heart disease. Dr. Sinatra and his co-author offer advice on maintaining cardiovascular health, as they explain all
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Hospitals: The cost of admission
- Health & Healing
- December 11, 2012
Doctors have been saying that the hospital chain they worked for (Hotel Management Associates) pressured them to admit patients and fill beds with people who did not actually need to be admitted, simply to make money. Cliff Cloonan, who worked at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania as the assistant emergency room director, warns, "If
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Tailored Parenting Advice in the Comfort of Home
- Home & Family
- December 11, 2012
Many websites are now offering online parenting classes run by counselors, psychologists and professors. These classes give parents a more personalized way of learning than what they would find from simply reading a book. The Wall Street Journal, 11/13/2012
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