A Guide To Goal Setting With Your Child
A Conversation with Erin Tarr, mom to three smart girls and founder of Be The Benchmark
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It’s Official – Architecture is Now A STEM Subject
On July 31, 2018, Congress passed a bill officially designating Architecture as a STEM science. This was a bipartisan effort for which the American Institute of Architects lobbied. With this bill, architecture was officially categorized along with other subje...
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Largest Study on Effects of Screen Time On Children Underway
Did you catch the recent 60 minutes episode featuring the groundbreaking new study on the effects of screen time on kids?
Anderson Cooper interviewed researchers who are following 11,000 kids for a decade to understand how screen time actually affec...
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Fewer Toys Equal More Focus and Creativity
According to a study published earlier this year in the Journal of Infant Behavior and Development, kids fare better in environments with few toys.
The researchers studied two groups of toddlers. One group had 4 toys and the other had 16 toys to play with...
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Sherry Johnson
Changed the Florida marriage law in order to protect children from child marriages
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College Math Readiness For Current Grads At A 14yr Low
On Wednesday, ACT released their annual report on the condition of College and Career Readiness showing only 40% of students met the benchmark that indicates how likely they are to succeed in a first year algebra class.
This is not only alarming for m...
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Raising A Creative Child
It is unfortunate that STEM is not often synonymous with creativity because the reality is that it is. Innovators are masters at creativity; applying existing ideas, tools, resources in novel ways to create something new.
So yes - raising a ST...
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Would You Enroll Your Daughter In An Online Preschool?
Online preschools are growing in popularity and some Early Childhood experts and advocates have a big problem with that. So much so that they have launched a petition to shut them down warning that they "can lead to excess exposure to screens for that age...
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What Is International Day Of The Girl?
In 2012, the International Day of the Girl campaign was adopted by the UN to highlight the need for greater education, medical care and legal right for young women in developing countries. "According to UNICEF, 600 million adolescent girls will start work in t...
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Can Your Daughter Handle Good Stress?
You have heard that not all stress is bad but exactly what kind of stress is good for a child?
The kind that presents opportunities to work through challenging but possible tasks. This is helpful to explore in parenting but also consider talking with your ...
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