Social Learning Theory According to the social learning theory, people learn by watching others. For instance, the famous Bobo doll experiment demonstrated how kids imitate adult behavior. Researchers discovered that children treated a doll the same way the adults did. Children who watched an adult become aggressive with the doll became aggressive in their interactions as well. Meanwhile, children who watched adults treat the doll kindly imitated the kindness. When you’re sweeping the floor, you might notice your little one pretending to sweep too....

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Age group: 18-40 months Duration of activity: 20 minutes Materials: Sand box with sand Flat spatula Small toy cars and trucks Small blocks (optional) Toy or handmade mini road signs (optional) This activity combines the fun of sensory play with your child’s imagination. You can also adapt this activity for any outdoor dirt area.

Unfortunately, all too many students leave a question blank after they’ve spent a lot of time trying to solve it. If you skip a question immediately, you save yourself a minute that you can use to solve other questions, and you may need the extra time. What you don’t want to do is spend a minute trying to solve a question, and then leave it blank. Now you’ve lost 10 points and 60 seconds....

If you’re paying for or contributing to your child’s wedding, remember that your donation buys you some say in how the money is spent. If she wants to hire limousines to transport herself, the groom, and the wedding party from the ceremony to the reception, and you think that some nice cars driven by special wedding guests will do just fine, be sure to make your opinion known. If you’re paying the costs outright, you can simply refuse to shell out for limos, despite the fact that your daughter is likely to be upset with you....

“If her data from her vaccination is able to help other children get vaccinated more safely and more swiftly then it seemed worth it to us,” Amy explains. “Somebody’s kid has to be the kid, so why not ours who can get the vaccine sooner and be one of the ones to help other kids?” As a neuroscientist, Amy was familiar with the process of a clinical trial. While she was a bit worried about an adverse reaction, she says she was more concerned her daughter would be the one to receive a placebo....

Within days of California’s announcement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) backed up the decision with similar recommendations for all schools. They recommend that all students (over the age of two years) and all staff mask at school, regardless of vaccination status. As of July 28th, 2021 the CDC is moving away from its spring mask guidance, recommending that everyone, even vaccinated individuals, wear masks indoors in public spaces in places where cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant are surging....

1 jar with screw-top lid Waterproof glue Wallpaper paste Glitter Paints (oil-based) Small toys, ornaments, miniature trees If you can’t get to the snow in the wintertime, make some of your own.

Developmental Differences Always remember that different aspects of your child’s development flourish at different times. For example, your child may intellectually be ready to build things with blocks, but still lack the fine motor skills needed to do so. Sometimes it’s easy for parents to forget that their gifted toddler or preschooler is still only their biological age. Parents of a gifted 3-year-old who is reading at a third-grade level, for example, can “forget” that their child has only been alive for three years....

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New research should help calm some of those fears. It not only showed that sleep training worked, but it didn’t impact the parents’ bond with their babies. This study was conducted in collaboration with Nanit Lab, the research arm of Nanit—a company that makes high-tech baby monitors. The monitors use technology to help track the baby’s sleep and growth. In the study published in the Journal of Pediatrics, 2,090 Nanit users were surveyed about their experience with infant behavioral sleep interventions (BSIs)....

How It Works The government gives funds directly to apartment owners, who then decrease the amount of rent they charge to low-income tenants. This form of subsidized housing assistance is available for low-income families, as well as individuals, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. Low-income single mothers looking to participate in HUD’s subsidized housing program should begin by looking for an apartment on the HUD website. Who Qualifies? To qualify for this type of rental assistance, you must earn no more than the HUD’s current income limit, which varies by state and changes every year....

What Is the “Deep River”? Beneath the busyness of our daily lives flows a deep river of creativity, passion, silence, and a place of contact with our own wisdom and clarity. This “deep river within” is a powerful antidote to the stress, frenzy, and sheer pace of daily life in our 24/7 culture – if we can find our way to this rich inner resource. One important practice that can help is taming our self-expectations....

Here are some of the other types of investments that may pay a higher interest rate: Certificates of deposit Bank money market funds U.S. savings bonds CDs Aren’t Just Musical Recordings Certificates of deposit (CDs) aren’t only things your child plays on a stereo or computer. They’re also a type of investment that works like a savings account. The CD pays compound interest, and CDs have the same FDIC insurance protection as savings accounts....

The ABCs of Do-Re-Me Kids need to know how the economy works. No, not stocks, interest rates, and world markets! I mean the basic ins and outs of a family economy. You can start when your kids are very young by helping them understand the difference between needs and wants, that money comes from working, what money looks like, and that everybody has a job (a kid’s job is to learn things, to play, and to participate in the family)....