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Identifying risk factors in preschool or even earlier helps parents and school administrators step in earlier too. Children who exhibit aggressive behavior can be counseled earlier, for example, and harsh parents can be taught a gentler form of discipline. The authors say further study is needed to answer questions of cause and effect. For instance, does children's aggressive behavior prompt harsh parenting or vice versa? And what about the role of older siblings? Psychologists know that older siblings often victimize their younger brothers and sisters, sometimes to great detriment; studying these family dynamics may help parents protect younger siblings...
Certainly, the development of the victimized child needs more study, but the new paper offers some guidance for where to begin. Patterns of victimization begin as soon as children begin to interact socially, Boivin says, and parents and caregivers need to be alerted to the problem in the earliest years. "The message is that this ... is not unique to school-age children," Boivin says...
...Today, Columbus should by all means have made the list of things deemed politically incorrect. But Columbus floats in limbo between public reverence and public outrage. Children learn that some Indians died when he came to America, but not that, as Spain’s first viceroy in the New World, Columbus was directly responsible for their deaths. And we still honor this man with a holiday in his name...
...takes time for cultural attitudes to change, and even more time for history books to be rewritten and educational methods changed. But the vague, ambivalent history lesson children receive today is unacceptable. They should learn more than the names of two of Columbus’s ships. They should learn the truth: that Columbus came to steal and conquer, not to explore and discover. That a place cannot be discovered when people are already living there. That Columbus was responsible for the death of an estimated 8 million Indians in the Caribbean alone. Though we may be ashamed...
...Remarried Terryene Mihara in 1995; they have four children...