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High school minus the prom and plus a less awkward health class, single-sex education has long been a contentious hotspot of the academic world. Many proponents argue that adolescents benefit socially and academically from being able to develop without feeling pressure or judgment from the opposite sex; but others feel that single-sex education creates an unrealistic bubble that inhibits the development of social skills and reinforces gender stereotypes. Harvard, with many of its students hailing from the various single-sex high schools across the country, is the perfect place to test this debate. These students’ experiences...
...parents, whose children were 5 months old at the start of the study. She found that certain "maladaptive" parental habits - such as the mother staying with the child until he or she fell asleep, or the parent giving a child food or drink upon nighttime awakening - appeared to develop in response to babies' early sleep difficulties, at 5 to 17 months of age. In turn, however, some of those calming strategies, which parents reported continuing to practice at 29 to 41 months, led to disrupted sleep - bad dreams, short sleep time and delays in falling asleep - in children of preschool...
...says. But that doesn't mean that children should be left to wail endlessly, or that parents should never console them. "It might be appropriate to be present in the room, comforting the child for a short time," Simard says. But it's most important "to let the child develop a capacity to comfort himself...
...findings are the latest in a growing field of study dedicated to understanding how sleep affects health, particularly in childhood. Increasingly, research suggests that long-term sleep-related problems may start as early as infancy, and that both pediatricians and parents need to do more to ensure that children develop healthy sleeping habits. "The most important message is that there's a lot we can do to prevent problems from starting - in sleep," says Taveras. "Parents and pediatricians should keep in mind that children have to develop the capacity to regulate their own sleep early in life and self-soothe...
...tries to explain the mystery of Mugabe's mind. "Like the seemingly respectable married man who makes his living as a drug lord, Mugabe holds parallel positions," she writes. "The two are not coordinated in his divided self. While he was indeed the enlightened leader who wanted to develop the country, improve the plight of the poor and secure freedom by resisting colonial power, the once-admirable leader is also the person doing the terrible things that can't be mentioned? He can insist that he never sacrifices his principles because the way he sees...