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There’s no denying that PBS Kids, the home of Daniel Tiger, was once the gold standard for children’s programming. Unfortunately, many of their shows now feel recycled or like they’re spoon-feeding their audience. For example, they’ve turned Elmo and Cookie Monster into transforming robots. A parent can’t help but wonder if they’re more interested in selling toys than entertaining kids. Apple TV+ has quickly (and quietly) been overtaking PBS’ throne in quality programming for kids, bringing considerable value to this parent’s dwindling streaming budget. Several creatives behind Sesame Street and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood have their own programs on the streaming service, and the shows are targeted toward specific age groups, not just preschoolers.
After playing 30 Rock‘s Kenneth Parcell with “aw-shucks” aplomb, Jack McBrayer practically seemed destined to host a Mr. Rogers Neighborhood-type show. Here, he plays a version of himself, who also happens to be the kindest resident of Clover Grove, and spreads his fondness for others around his colorful hometown. Behind the scenes, McBrayer co-created this musical show (with songs by pop group OK Go) with Angela C. Santomero, the mind behind Blue’s Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. According to my oldest son, this program is strictly for preschoolers, as he doesn’t enjoy the show as much as his younger brother does.
Frog and Toad
Every streaming service has a children’s series based on a book. Netflix has Captain Underpants, and Prime Video has If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and each show translates its source material to the screen with varying degrees of success. Apple TV+ has Frog and Toad, which captures what made Arnold Lobel’s award-winning series so delightful to read, from the color palette of its illustrations to its contagious positivity. The show moves at the same pace as your preschooler, so their senses aren’t overloaded, and its core themes about communication and embracing differences are slipped in subtly. Both my sons love it. Don’t be surprised if this becomes the next kids’ show you watch without your kids
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Stillwater
From each hair on the titular panda’s face to the blades of grass that move with the breeze, Stillwater is far too beautiful for children’s television animation. Even its sound design is soothing, which is on purpose, given the show’s premise. Each episode deals with a problem that one of Stillwater’s child neighbors brings to them. Rather than letting their emotions take over, he supports them in finding a solution by taking a deep breath and looking at the problem from a different perspective, offering a way to navigate complicated feelings so viewers can work on becoming more self-aware humans. Surprisingly, my kids love this show, particularly the beautiful fables Stillwater tells his young neighbors to get his point across.
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July 4, 2024
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July 4, 2024
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Perhaps the biggest difference Lissa O’Rourke has noticed among her preschoolers in St. Augustine, Fla., has been their inability to regulate their emotions: “It was knocking over chairs, it was throwing things, it was hitting their peers, hitting their teachers.”
Data from schools underscores what early childhood professionals have noticed.
Children who just finished second grade, who were as young as 3 or 4 when the pandemic began, remain behind children the same age prepandemic, particularly in math, according to the new Curriculum Associates data. Of particular concern, the students who are the furthest behind are making the least progress catching up.
The youngest students’ performance is “in stark contrast” to older elementary school children, who have caught up much more, the researchers said. The new analysis examined testing data from about four million children, with cohorts before and after the pandemic.
Data from Cincinnati Public Schools is another example: Just 28 percent of kindergarten students began this school year prepared, down from 36 percent before the pandemic, according to research from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
How did this happen?
One explanation for young children’s struggles, childhood development experts say, is parental stress during the pandemic.
A baby who is exposed to more stress will show more activation on brain imaging scans in “the parts of that baby’s brain that focus on fear and focus on aggression,” said Rahil D. Briggs, a child psychologist with Zero to Three, a nonprofit that focuses on early childhood. That leaves less energy for parts of the brain focused on language, exploration, and learning, she said.
During lockdowns, children also spent less time overhearing adult interactions that exposed them to new language, like at the grocery store or the library. And they spent less time playing with other children.
Kelsey Schnur, 32, of Sharpsville, Pa., pulled her daughter, Finley, from child care during the pandemic. Finley, then a toddler, colored, did puzzles, and read books at home.
But when she finally enrolled in preschool, she struggled to adjust, her mother said. She was diagnosed with separation anxiety and selective mutism.
“It was very eye-opening to see,” said Ms. Schnur, who works in early childhood education. “They can have all of the education experiences and knowledge, but that socialization is so key.”
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Preschoolers do not have the same fine motor skills as they did prepandemic, Ms. Frederick said. Aaron Hardin for The New York Times
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July 4, 2024
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If you’re in the wellness community looking to live a longer, healthier life, you’ve probably noticed the love-hate relationship health experts have with coffee.
Does coffee…
- Protect you from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease?
- Lower your type 2 diabetes risk?
- Keep your liver safe from cirrhosis and even cancer?
- Boost your metabolism and athletic performance?
Yes, we have mounting research on it.
- Does it also increase stress hormone levels?
- Contribute to anxiety and sleep problems, especially if you drink too much?
- Is it addictive, and does it cause withdrawal?
Also yes. At least, the WHO no longer considers coffee a carcinogen (until 2016, it did.)
For most people, moderate coffee consumption will bring more benefits than risks. But, there are better and worse ways to have your coffee. Let’s talk about turning your morning cup of joe into a health ritual.
It only takes 30 seconds and a few small tweaks— I’ll show you how.
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July 3, 2024
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Things have changed a lot since I was a kid. Science is actually cool now, for example—my kids actually want to learn as much about the world around them as they can, and they can do so in their home with the wide variety of educational kits available to help them learn about geology, physics, paleontology, chemistry, and other branches of study. Not only do these kits give kids a head start in the classroom, but they also impart principles like observing and problem-solving.
If you have an inquisitive kid looking for fun while deepening their understanding of science, here are 10 affordable kits to help them get started.
Engino Stem Toys: Physics Laws
Sure, your kid can build a rocket with a LEGO set, but it takes science to project it into the air. With this six-in-one set, your child can make a working launcher, crash test rig, rubber band car, sharpening wheel, bow and arrow, and an inertia test platform while learning basic physics principles. Reviewers say this STEM kit has easy-to-follow instructions that even elementary school-aged kids can understand.
National Geographic Stunning Science Chemistry Set
We all made model volcanoes for our science fair project, but your kids can take their experiment to the next level with some pop crystals to make it change colors and fizz. That’s just one of the many chemistry-based experiments this kit offers, which also include building a geyser or rocket launcher. The educational instruction booklet also has 30 additional experiments kids can conduct using everyday household items.
KiwiCo Science of Cooking: Ice Cream
What kid doesn’t love ice cream? Now, with this hands-on kit created by the popular educational subscription service, they can make their own while learning the materials and methods involved in creating the cold concoction. The kit also includes an illustrated book explaining the science behind the delicious dessert and features recipes for different flavors and sorbet.
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July 3, 2024
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Space should not be a garbage dump. Nevertheless, we have treated the sky as a wrecker’s yard for more than half a century, and the amount of space junk orbiting Earth has skyrocketed in recent years. Now filled with the decaying hulks of defunct rockets and satellites, our polluted orbital environment is becoming more crowded by the day, threatening the growing space economy. It’s time for nations—and the billionaires commoditizing space—to clean up Earth’s near orbit.
The U.S. Air Force tracks more than 25,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimeters—about the size of a bagel—weighing together some 9,000 metric tons. This dangerous trash zips around Earth at speeds of roughly 10 kilometers per second, or more than 22,000 miles per hour. Collisions between millimeter-scale objects too small to track and working satellites are now routine, as are near-miss disasters. One example is a NASA research satellite that almost hit a defunct Russian satellite in February. Orbital debris collisions cost satellite operators an estimated $86 million to $103 million in losses a year, a figure that will grow as each operator and each collision generate more debris.
The threat isn’t just in space. In March, part of a pallet from a discarded International Space Station battery fell to Earth, smashing through the roof of a Florida home. In 2020 an Ivory Coast village recovered a 12-meter-long pipe from space, courtesy of a Chinese rocket that cast off its empty core after launch. And a 2022 Nature Astronomy study puts the odds of space junk killing someone on the ground at 10 percent every decade. Needlessly.
Under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations are supposed to be responsible for damages caused by space junk, even if it was originally launched by a private firm. That puts taxpayers, not space-exploring billionaires, on the hook for damages from orbital debris if its origin can be proved and the company shown negligent—a tough proposition for untraceable paint chips. No surprise, this hasn’t worked. The problem is, after decades of discussion, there is still no international treaty that limits space junk or sets standards for negligence. We need one that outlines responsibilities and imposes fines on the companies whose spacecraft debris causes harm.
As long as doing the right thing is voluntary, it may not happen, concluded a 2018 Air Force Association report. The limited action since then tells us the world is way overdue for an agreement on mandatory standards. Few countries or companies currently design rockets for their complete life cycle. They must be forced to store enough fuel and retain the capability for spacecraft to steer safely out of space when their useful life is over. Painful financial and regulatory penalties should afflict spacefaring industries and nations that fail to play by the new rules.
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July 2, 2024
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Hmmmmm… Maybe incarcerate Donald till all his cases have been litigated!
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Kate Bulkeley’s pledge to stay off social media in high school worked at first. She watched the benefits pile up: She was getting excellent grades. She read lots of books. The family had lively conversations around the dinner table and gathered for movie nights on weekends.
Then, as sophomore year got underway, the unexpected problems surfaced. She missed a student government meeting arranged on Snapchat. Her Model U.N. team communicates on social media, too, causing her scheduling problems. Even the Bible Study club at her Connecticut high school uses Instagram to communicate with members.
Gabriela Durham, a high school senior in Brooklyn, says navigating high school without social media has made her who she is today. She is a focused, organized, straight-A student with a string of college acceptances — and an accomplished dancer who recently made her Broadway debut. Not having social media has made her an “outsider,” in some ways. That used to hurt; now, she says, it feels like a badge of honor.
With the damaging consequences of social media increasingly well documented, some parents are trying to raise their children with restrictions or blanket bans. Teenagers themselves are aware that too much social media is bad for them, and some are initiating social media “cleanses” because of the toll it takes on mental health and grades.
But it is hard to be a teenager today without social media. For those trying to stay off social platforms while most of their peers are immersed, the path can be challenging, isolating, and at times liberating. It can also be life-changing.
This is a tale of two families, social media, and the ever-present challenge of navigating high school. It’s about what kids do when they can’t extend their Snapstreaks or shut their bedroom doors and scroll through TikTok past midnight. It’s about what families discuss when they’re not having screen-time battles. It’s also about persistent social ramifications.
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Global spending on renewables, nuclear, energy efficiency, and low-emissions fuels like hydrogen is set to eclipse $2 trillion in 2024, double the $1 trillion spent on fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency’s annual review of global energy spending.
The transformation is particularly strong in the power sector, where worldwide investment in solar ($500 billion) is set to exceed spending on all other forms of power generation combined.
The IEA’s annual World Energy Investment report is closely tracked by industry analysts as a leading indicator for trends in the energy industry. This year’s report predicts that spending on clean energy will grow by almost 6 percent, up from nearly $1.9 trillion in 2023.
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Workers install solar panels at a factory in Nairobi, Kenya, last year. Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images
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Hmmmmm… Did the Supreme Court just give President Biden the power to eliminate Donald Trump Legally?
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What to know about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s immunity appeal
- The Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump has some immunity from prosecution in his federal election interference case. The 6-3 decision, which is complex, further delays special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution.
- Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, rejected Trump’s broad immunity claims and said Trump has immunity only for his “official” acts as president. The high court did not determine what constitutes an official act in this case, leaving that to the lower court.
- The court’s liberal justices issued blistering dissents. In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the ruling “breaks new and dangerous ground.”
- President Joe Biden gave brief remarks from the White House this evening on the court’s ruling, calling it a “dangerous precedent.”
Biden says immunity ruling means there are ‘virtually no limits’ on presidential power
Biden said tonight that the Supreme Court’s ruling means there are “virtually no limits” on presidential power.
He said voters deserved to have an answer through the courts before Election Day about what took place on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Now, because of today’s decision, that is highly, highly unlikely. It’s a terrible disservice to the people of this nation,” he said.
Biden added that the high court’s ruling means voters in November will be charged with deciding whether they want to elect Trump “now knowing he’ll be more emboldened to do whatever he pleases, whenever he wants to do it.”
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