Tag Archives: parents

Hip Moscow restaurant teaches gourmet kids’ recipes

January 9, 2013 – 3:01 pm

by Victor Sonkin WHAT’S HAPPENING Ragout, a hip Moscow restaurant, is offering courses for parents of toddlers, teaching them to cook diverse high-quality food (Ragout.ru, November 2012). The courses are scheduled over three days. The first day is devoted to children aged 5-8 months, the second to children aged 8-14 months, and the third to […]

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Kids play matchmaker for single parents on UK site

September 4, 2012 – 2:14 pm

by Krisha Kinnersley WHAT’S HAPPENING They say kids know best — but could that apply to the dating game for single mums and dads? A British dating site is putting that concept to the test by inviting kids to create profiles for their over-50 parents (HuffingtonPost.com, 17 August 2012). My Lovely Parent was created by […]

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THE ABC’S OF ENGLISH EDUCATION

March 13, 2012 – 10:06 am

by Sumaa Tekur English is in demand in India. Parents are increasingly enrolling their children in English-language schools. At last count, more than 20 million kids are studying in such schools across the country, with a 274% increase in enrollment since 2003, according to the National University of Education, Planning and Administration (TimesOfIndia.com, 2 March […]

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MUCH ADO ABOUT BABYCCINOS

March 6, 2012 – 1:07 pm

by Becky Sun The preschool set in Brooklyn is foaming at the mouth, apparently, and so are some indignant adults. The hot story that was brewing in February started when the Brooklyn Paper  published a story about how parents in fashionable neighborhoods are ordering babyccinos — small cups of decaf lattes or steamed milk — for […]

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R U serious? Study finds text messaging improves children’s spelling

February 23, 2011 – 10:43 am

by Robert van Alstyne WHAT’S HAPPENING If parents take the results of new research from Coventry University to heart, they may soon be adding “type some texts 2night” to their little ones’ list of household chores (ReadWriteWeb.com, 25 January 2011). Working from a pool of 114 9- and 10-year olds who had previously never used […]

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Disney Junior credo: Kids just want to have fun

December 14, 2010 – 11:31 am

by Cree McCree WHAT’S HAPPENING Enough with the ABCs, learn-to-count games and other eat-your-veggies shows on Nick and PBS. Disney Junior is betting that today’s toddlers (and their parents) are hungry for good old-fashioned stories with no higher purpose than sheer, unadulterated fun. Disney’s not just shooting in the dark with feel-good fare like Little […]

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Admission to nursery is no kids’ play: Training classes to the rescue

December 8, 2010 – 9:48 pm

by Kiran Manral WHAT’S HAPPENING Still in diapers, toddlers are hopping between phonics, general knowledge and handwriting classes to get an edge in interviews for admission to the best nursery schools (Mumbai Mirror, 21 November 2010). Admission to kindergarten is no mean task with kids being graded on their social skills, general knowledge, ability to […]

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GROWING UP TOO FAST?

August 31, 2010 – 1:58 pm

by Stefania Revelli Are you there God? It’s me … er, Margaret’s mom. As I came across the old preteen rite-of-passage read at my local bookstore, I realized Judy Blume and her 11-year-old protagonist, Margaret Simon, would both likely be as shocked as I’ve been to hear that girls are approaching puberty at a (way) […]

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