Experiments show that early childhood memories rely on language. "None of the children interviewed used any of the words that they did not know at the time of the original demonstration to describe their memory of the event."

quiban Ma-ES

Tags: language-memory-via:mindhacks-children-science

Understated and impossibly charming documentary, quietly watching a tiny, one-room school in rural France for six months, with no commentary. Fun to watch a film with foreign dialogue simple enough to pre-empt it from the subtitles.

vengador Ma-ES

Tags: filmlog-4stars-france-children-education

"If a squid does not learn to control its startle-escape reflex during [childhood], it seems to lose the ability to program its nervous system in a way that allows it to perform the sophisticated hunting skills that are necessary to survive in the wild."

dante_23 Ma-ES

Tags: squid-brains-science-children

"Governments and society have not woken up to how DNA testing and genetic profiling are lifting the lid on a 'Pandora's box' of hidden sexual behaviour or how the results might affect individuals, family relationships or public health."

seven Ma-ES

Tags: genetics-children-secrets-sex

"In one particularly interesting experiment at Yale University [...] it was shown that children who were supposedly made unruly by sugar calmed down the moment their parents left the room."

esperanza Ma-ES

Tags: food-children-nostalgia

Complex networks of one-way attention, and the hidden motives of them, and how not to change them. Most characters end up being slightly too unlikeable as a result, though.

tripad Ma-ES

Tags: filmlog-2stars-children-books-love

Young children not grasping impossibilities of scale or context, for otherwise convincing objects. "At home, Uttal and Rosengren had also observed their own daughters trying to lie down in a doll's bed or get into a miniature toy car."

rodrib Ma-ES

Tags: children-brains-via:mindhacks-psychology-delusions

"The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol [...] until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky."

unza Ma-ES

Tags: war-children-via:mcios-weapons-television

"Overall, the children in the clown group appeared to be far less stressed and anxious than the other children. Similarly, their parents were also less anxious."

reciente Ma-ES

Tags: clowns-medicine-via:mindhacks-children-psychology

"Names which get a negative response from teacher include those with hyphens, like Bobbi-Jo, ordinary names with unusual spellings such as Kloe or K'tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Gyaike and Chevaughn, plus the various spellings of Jordon."

ackerm Ma-ES

Tags: language-children-education

Awful-looking game that "eliminates intimidation of many kids and their parents, bored by the mention of 'computer programming', often associated with visions of geeky guys glued to their computers. c-jump reveals simple programming terms in a cool way!"

ximole Ma-ES

Tags: board-games-lunacy-pointless-education

Deterring loitering youths with sound frequencies that young ears are more sensitive to. "We just put it up and said nothing to the teenagers, then they came in to complain. They were literally begging me to turn it off."

ksantos Ma-ES

Tags: sound-children-ears-shops

"All but 400 of the 3,000 students at San Antonio Warren High School either didn't show up or walked out of class today due to [shooting] threats against the school posted on a popular teen web site [by other students]."

lubi Ma-ES

Tags: education-children-via:foe-terrorism-web

"The most popular robots are, unexpectedly, the ones that demand we take care of them. They trigger our nurturing impulses, the same ones we deploy toward infants, the elderly or any other vulnerable creature."

magdis Ma-ES

Tags: robots-toys-via:foe-psychology-children

"Pupils from rival schools used the internet to stage a mass brawl but were stopped from coming to blows when police were tipped off. Teenagers [...] used the Microsoft MSN Messenger service to arrange a large scale fight in a park in Merseyside."

carlosss Ma-ES

Tags: children-war-web-police

"Now 81, Iona Opie still has a thick folder labelled 'Games Disappearing', chronicling hand-wringing warnings of the tradition's imminent demise that go back as far as 1664."

javiy Ma-ES

Tags: games-children-via:wonderland-history

"It's not a demo. It's not a story. It's not a guided adventure. The whole joy of RPGs is 'you can try anything', and the only way to make new gamers is to bring that joy in from the first moment."

yola Ma-ES

Tags: games-children-via:zarb-roleplaying

"Eccky is the name of a game where two parents can make, name and raise a virtual child [which] will be added to their MSN Messenger contact list, just like a regular buddy. [...] The game will end in 6 days when Eccky will celebrate its 18th birthday."

jovi Ma-ES

Tags: children-lunacy-simulation-via:foe

"Spaceship, castle, haven to daydream in, the cardboard box was enshrined Friday in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with Jack-in-the-Box and Candy Land."

tueso Ma-ES

Tags: toys-children-via:arbroath-construction

"No, it is not dangerous to confuse children with angels." Parallels and coincidences played out across a huge and slow-arcing three hours, threatening to tie it all together but not quite bothering, in the end. Very strong characters, though.

vengador Ma-ES

Tags: filmlog-3stars-frogs-secrets-drugs