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  • Children’s Mental Health Declined ‘Substantially’ During Lockdowns, Study Finds

    Children’s Mental Health Declined ‘Substantially’ During Lockdowns, Study Finds0

    A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge finds that the government-imposed lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic cause significant harm to children’s mental health. The study, published this week in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, was the first of its kind to analyze data on younger children’s mental health before and during the

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  • Children’s ‘Mental Health’ Problems May Be Spiritual

    Children’s ‘Mental Health’ Problems May Be Spiritual0

    According to the charity Childline, the number of children seeking help with suicidal thoughts and self-harming reached a peak during lockdown, with 10,680 calls made to their telephone counseling service in April seeking help with mental health and well-being. Public affairs manager of the the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

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  • Children Under Siege in the Digital Age

    Children Under Siege in the Digital Age0

    In The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald casts both an unlikely hero and an unlikely weapon to defeat the enemy. In what is almost unimaginable in today’s culture, the hero is a twelve-year-old boy, and his weapon is verse. When the goblins threaten to attack, only a chant or rhyme can defeat these villains. The hero,

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  • Children Should Learn about TANSTAAFL

    Children Should Learn about TANSTAAFL0

    In the late 1920s, my grandmother would go to the local store and ask for “a penny’s worth of mixed candies and chocolates.” In return for her penny, she was handed a brown paper lunch bag full of sweets. Thirty years later, my mother made the trek to the corner store in her neighborhood. She

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  • Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction

    Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction1

    Recently I spoke with a friend who expressed some angst that his 12-year-old son was primarily interested in reading fantasy novels. Efforts to introduce the lad to higher forms of literature were proving more difficult than he’d expected. Not to worry. Fantasy novels and science fiction yarns, I said, are often gateways to the higher

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  • Children Prefer Reading Books on Paper, Not Screens

    Children Prefer Reading Books on Paper, Not Screens0

    There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily the case. In a study of children in Year 4 and 6, those who had regular access to devices with eReading capability

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