Excuse my end-of-year rush but I don’t want to forget about Harvard’s Shorenstein Center’s recap of recent bullying studies. Anyhow, it gives me a chance to assign some Summer Reading. If you haven’t done so before, check out the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy. They gather up …
Don’t eat your placenta just yet – it might predict whether your baby’s at risk for autism. By examining the folds in the placenta researchers predicted whether newborns had a sibling with autism with 96.7% accuracy. Via Science Daily Ladies, forget all the nonsense about libido and lots of testosterone. It’s your estrogen. Yup, just …
Introducing The Momma Data Book Club! The book club for parents who like their books full of empirical evidence. This isn’t your neighborhood book club. No need to prepare a cheese plate, cram twenty people in your living room or listen to parenting advice from the woman raising the juvenile delinquents across the street. Instead you’ll read (or skim) a book about kids …
Bullying in childhood appears to be a real bummer beyond childhood. A new study links childhood bullying to psychiatric disorders in young adulthood. It’s one of the first long-term studies tracking “the effects” of bullying and involves a large sample of over 1,400 youths in Western North Carolina. Researchers from Duke University asked kids about their experiences with bullying then …
Check out Bullying: It Stops Here, the new anti-bullying initiative by Anderson Cooper on his cable perch, AC360 (degrees!). While I can’t figure out how to type the degree symbol, I can tell you bullying isn’t what it used to be according to a new “pilot” study sponsored by CNN and the …