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This should happen at some point

Vision, ranting about parenting super children: And there’s no keeping them out of danger! You can ground them all you like, but they have superpowers, so there’s nothing stopping them from sneaking out and doing whatever it is they’ve decided is their responsibility! And you can’t blame them because you did the exact same thing when you were younger, so now you’re remembering every insane thing you did in your career and picturing your kids doing it No one has any idea what this feels like!

Tony Stark:

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The Best Children’s Books of 2016

In his meditation on the three ways of writing for children and the key to authenticity in all writing, C.S. Lewis admonished against treating children, in literature or life, as “a strange species whose habits you have ‘made up’ like an anthropologist or a commercial traveller.” A generation earlier, J.R.R. Tolkien expressed the same sentiment in his timeless insistence on why there is no such thing as writing “for children.” And a generation later, Maurice Sendak, perhaps the most beloved creator of so-called “children’s” books in our own era, scoffed in his final interview: “I don’t write for children. I write — and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’”

After the year’s greatest science books, here are the picture-books I found most imaginative, intelligent, and warmhearted this year — books that speak, even sing, to hearts of all ages and embody E.B. White’s proclamation that successful writers of children’s books “have to write up, not down.”

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Best 5 Language Learning Apps to Easily Master a New Language

Learning a new language is no easy feat. While a language instructor is irreplaceable, language learning apps have come to revolutionize a lot of things and it has made language learning much easier. Compared to language learning websites, apps offer a more interactive experience to learn a new language.

The following language learning apps are the top recommended apps for your language learning needs:

1. Duolingo

Duolingo is a very successful app that merged gamification and language learning. According to Expanded Ramblings, the app now counts with 300 million users.

Duolingo offers a unique concept, an easy-to-use app and is a great app to accompany your language acquisition journey. The courses are created by native speakers, so this is not data or algorithm-based.

The app is free and has the upgrade options with Duolingo Plus for $9.99, which are ad-free lessons. The mobile app offers 25 languages and is popular for English-speaking learners learning other languages.

(via Best 5 Language Learning Apps to Easily Master a New Language)

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How to Tell When Your Child’s Sniffles or Cough Could Be Something Serious

We’re in the midst of a particularly severe cold and flu season, and it’s hitting kids especially hard. How can you tell when a cough or a runny nose is something to really worry about? Pediatrician Dr. Alanna Levine joins TODAY to tell you what to look for. 

(Watch video via TODAY.com)

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Happy Labor Day from Super Parenting!

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10 Ways You Can Stop Screwing Up Your Kids

When you ask parents what they want for their kids, what’s usually the most common reply? They want their children to be happy.

Via Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents:

. . . the well-being of children is more important to adults than just about anything else — health care, the well-being of seniors, the cost of living, terrorism, and the war in Iraq. More than two-thirds of adults say they are “extremely concerned” about the well-being of children, and this concern cuts across gender, income, ethnicity, age, and political affiliation.

Now there’s tons of info on raising smart kids and successful kids, but how do you raise happy kids?

(via Ladders)

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Children of Suicide Victims Need Support

A new doctoral dissertation finds that talking about suicide is associated with such strong stigma that young people whose parents have taken their own life often must turn to the internet to express their grief and receive support.

The thesis represents the view of Anneli Silvén Hagström from Linköping University in Sweden. Given that Sweden has a socialist health care system, Hagström laments that the healthcare system is not providing support for young people in the difficult life situation.

Continue reading on Children and Teens – Psych Central News

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Healthy Diet Can Aid Kids’ Early Reading Skills

A new Finnish study suggests a healthy diet is linked to better reading skills in the first three years of school.

The study involved 161 children aged 6-8 years old, with researchers following the students from the first grade to the third grade.

The quality of their diet was analyzed using food diaries, and their academic skills with the help of standardized tests.

Continue reading on Children and Teens – Psych Central News