As most people count their blessings and prepare to enjoy Christmas with family, many others face serious struggles. Among these is the Swedish family of Annie and Christer Johansson whose only child, 7-year-old Dominic Johansson, was “kidnapped” by Swedish authorities in June of this year as the family was on a plane leaving the country […]
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Spanking makes kids perform better in school, helps them become more successful
A study, which found that young children whose parents spank them perform better at school later on, isn’t winning high marks with child development experts. The research, by Calvin College psychology professor Marjorie Gunnoe, found that kids smacked before age 6 grew up to be more successful, and that there was not enough evidence to […]
Taser adds mobile phone monitoring tool to its arsenal
Stun gun maker Taser wants to help parents, not with jolts of electricity but with a tool which allows parents to effectively take over a child's mobile phone and manage its use. "Basically we're taking old fashioned parenting and bringing it into the mobile world," Taser chairman and co-founder Tom Smith said at the Consumer […]
British National Party wants to bring back corporal punishment in schools
According to the British National Party website the British National Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: Britain suffers from more than 27,000 crimes per day, or more than ten million crimes per year – the direct result of decades of softly-softly politically correct policing and […]
Teen Chess Genius Is Game's Youngest No. 1
A teenager who can think 20 moves ahead in a chess match has become the game's youngest ever number one. Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, 19, has been called the 'Mozart of Chess'. He is listed at the top of the World Chess Federation's rankings for January with 2,810 points, five ahead of his nearest rival, Bulgarian […]
7-year-old painting prodigy
His pictures cost upwards of £900, there are 680 people on a waiting list to buy them, and his second exhibition sold out in 14 minutes. Patrick Barkham meets the gifted artist Kieron Williamson, aged seven. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...ron-Wi-001.jpg Kieron Williamson kneels on the wooden bench in his small kitchen, takes a pastel from the box by […]
No funny faces in yearbook!
To help “break the ice and get comfortable in High School”, freshman Charlie Patton made a face for her high school yearbook. The photo was taken in August, 2009 with her mother present and agreeable with the shot. Fifteen year old Charlie explained “I wanted to show who I am. That’s Charlie. I wanted to […]
Technology is making teenagers' lives miserable
Parental controls are in everything - and now in your car By Gary Marshall CES has barely begun and we're depressed already: the good people at Blackline GPS are showing off their Young Drivers Report Card, a GPS-based monitoring system that ensures you'll never have to trust your teenager again. According to the blurb, you […]
Chinese couple swap child for mobile phone
Found on techradar.com... apparently they think this is funny: A Chinese couple are reported to have sold their child to fund the purchase of a mobile phone. The news report didn't say what model of mobile it was or which operating system the phone they bought used, so we can't judge them too harshly. If […]
In 30 years without spanking, are Swedish children better behaved?
Stockholm – When celebrating the 30th anniversary of the world's first national ban on corporal punishment of children last month, Sweden's social affairs minister, Göran Hägglund, claimed a dramatic success over something many Swedes now consider a scourge. "Colleagues from other countries often ask how we manage to raise children here without hitting them, but […]
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