→ Read more[…]The gift of early insight into chess or math or music is often also accompanied by a growing obsession with those activities, simply because of the wonders of connection and invention that unfold in the young mind.
Category: children
Quote for the week 6th-12th of Jan ’08
[…] children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think. If, having been fairly and properly exposed to all the scientific evidence, they grow up and decide that the Bible is literally true or that the movements of the planets rule their lives, that is their privilege.
Importance of early environment for children’s cognitive development: Bucharest Early Intervention Project
A very important and welcome study on the cognitive recovery of socially deprived young children, using a randomized controlled trial with young orphans from Bucharest, Romania, has been published in Science, on the 21st of Dec ’07.
→ Read more Raising smart kids
Here’s a very well written article from the Scientific American, on raising smart kids (since I have quite many friends with young kids or expecting them: mothers and fathers (to be), pay great attention to this).
→ Read more Funniest thing I’ve read today
…is about a “conversation with a slightly-lingual-in-two-languages toddler“. Via Andy’s blog. Enjoy (and try to stop laughing) :-). → Read more