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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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  • Children Help Adults to Grow Up

    Children Help Adults to Grow Up0

    It is a truism that children need adults to help them grow up. It is, however, less known but equally true that adults need children to help them grow into the fullness of maturity. Whereas children need to be taught about life in all its multifarious manifestations, satisfying their natural sense of wonder and their

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  • Children Have Amazing Powers of Memorization… So Why Aren’t Schools Using Them?

    Children Have Amazing Powers of Memorization… So Why Aren’t Schools Using Them?4

    According to an article in the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, preschool-age children have a special talent for memorizing and remembering rhymes. As the Digest explains, a recent study found that, compared to their parents and other older adults, young children are able to recall “nearly twice as many correct words” from the rhyming stories

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