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Parenting Pointers: Speech Disorders and Friendships

Motherhood Moments

Children with persistent speech disorder have greater difficulty than their peers in making friends and maintaining relationships, according to new research. Researchers analysed data collected from 7,390 participants of Children of the 90s, who attended the clinic at eight years of age. This material comes from Motherhood Moment.

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How to Pick A Career

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I did some research to see what kinds of jobs I could get that paid the most with the least amount of additional training and became a computer programmer. Dr. John Krumboltz, Professor of Educational Psychology at Standford University studies how people choose careers. After 10 years raising kids, I decided to re-enter the workforce.

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Addicted to the Screen

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In Psychology Today article Gray Matters: Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain, Victoria L. a child psychiatrist) notes several research studies that appear to show that our brains may actually be changing based on our screen time. Why limit something that fun? Brains change. Dunckley, M.D. (a Get Healthy'

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