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...modulate their responses to sugar. It might also mean that people like me (who tend to eat perhaps a bit too much sugar) will have a great new excuse around major holidays. Indulgence, in other words, without guilt: "Oooh, pass the candy dish. Don't give me that look, Mom. I can't help it. My genes are crying out for modified white sugars...
...Actually, "nothing at all" isn't quite accurate. If the girls, ages 4 and 7, want to sleep late, they do - as do Mom and Dad. After that, there's time for a family breakfast and a lazy morning and an afternoon of outside play or a museum trip or whatever else strikes the family's fancy. Monday, they all know, will come soon enough, and the girls will be going back to the high-stakes race of schoolwork and homework and ballet or chess or soccer practice. But until then, they are going to have a chance to breathe...
...demands a lot of attention,'" said principal researcher Jay Belsky. It didn't matter if the children were black or white, rich or poor, male or female, and - most confounding - whether the care was provided by a traditional child-care center, a nanny, a grandmother, even Dad. Only Mom will...
...just in case those stay-at-home moms found comfort in the choices and sacrifices they have made, the study also suggests that kids in strong child-care programs tend to develop better language and memory skills, are in certain respects better prepared for school. Would you take that trade, Mom...
...unpublished study has offered us only two kinds of children: those raised at home by their mothers (about 1 in 4 children) and everyone else. Which begs the question that the researchers didn't even pretend to answer: Why would kids who are cared for by anyone other than Mom develop disruptive behaviors, and what should we do about it? For that matter, should we even be worried at all? The researchers noted that almost all the "aggressive" toddlers were well within the range of normal behavior for four-year-olds. And what about that adjective, anyway? Is a vice...