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    Raising an American girl
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 17
    • 2 min

    Raising an American girl

    My daughter never had an American Girl doll, because I was too cheap to spend that kind of money, even if each doll had a history back...
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    ‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 14
    • 1 min

    ‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event

    Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 14
    • 1 min

    If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’ 

    A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride”...
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    She watched kids play — security was called
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 14
    • 1 min

    She watched kids play — security was called

    Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to...
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    Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Screen-time limits linked to cognitive skills

    Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day boosts their brainpower, concludes a new study, reports Hamza Shaban...
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    Spoiled children
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    Spoiled children

    A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    What it’s like in ‘Eighth Grade’

    I have no desire to remember my eighth-grade self. If the new movie Eighth Grade captures what it’s like to be an insecure 13-year-old, I...
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    ‘Work colleges’ go urban
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Aug 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    ‘Work colleges’ go urban

    The “work college” model — students are required to work as part of their education — is spreading to cities, reports Hechinger’s Delece...
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    Defend the status quo or go kid-centric?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Defend the status quo or go kid-centric?

    Teachers’ unions should adopt a kid-centric policy in response to the Janus decision, writes Paul Reville in Ed Week. Leaders will need...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 28, 2018
    • 1 min

    If life loans you a lemon, sell lemonade

    Lemonade stands are teaching kids how to be entrepreneurs, reports Sarah D. Sparks for Ed Week. Jemma Walker, 11, set up a mermaid-themed...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    ‘Tastes like justice’

    Brilliant marketing. #entrepreneurship #lemonadestands
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    ‘Baby, may I change your diaper?’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    ‘Baby, may I change your diaper?’

    Deanne Carson An Aussie sex education expert says parents should ask for permission to change a child’s diaper, reports Kashmira Gander...
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    Trophies are for winners
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    Trophies are for winners

    Trophies are for winners, a Maryland youth baseball league has decided. “For years, Reisterstown Baseball has given trophies to its...
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    Curiosity kills the (achievement) gap
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 5, 2018
    • 1 min

    Curiosity kills the (achievement) gap

    A child’s curiosity may as important to learning as self-control or “grit,” writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Researchers used a...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 29, 2017
    • 1 min

    Parents choose commercial-free kids’ TV

    Fewer children are watching traditional children’s television, such as Saturday morning cartoons, writes Rob Toledo in Exstreamist. “More...
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    Merry Christmas
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    Merry Christmas

    Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good day. #Christmas
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    ‘911, a Grinch is planning a theft’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    ‘911, a Grinch is planning a theft’

    Byram Police Officer Lauren Develle, who was compared to Cindy Lou Who when she was a child, came to TyLon Pittman’s house to assure him...
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    Naughty, nice or ‘decline to state’
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 23, 2017
    • 1 min

    Naughty, nice or ‘decline to state’

    #Christmas
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    Boston starts at 7:15 am, so teens can sleep in
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 20, 2017
    • 1 min

    Boston starts at 7:15 am, so teens can sleep in

    To give teens more time to sleep, Boston Public Schools will start high schools later and elementary and K-8 schools earlier. Most high...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 12, 2017
    • 1 min

    Is Batman working hard? He is!

    Dressing up as Batman, Dora the Explorer or other heroes helps four- to six-year-olds concentrate on a task and resist the distraction of...
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