LET KIDS BE KIDS
Hey I would rather have my kid draw on
my back then play most of the THE mind of a newborn child has been compared to a page on which nothing is written. Actually, many impressions were made on the infant’s mind even while it was in its mother’s womb. And certain personality traits are indelibly written into it through genetic inheritance. But an enormous capacity for learning is there from the moment of birth onward. Rather than a single page, it is as if a whole library were waiting to receive the imprints of information on its pages. Singer/Songwriter, Guitarist, Music Educator, Family Entertainer, Voiceover Artist MISS AMY Children as young as seven or eight years of age are being exposed to music laced with profanity, sexually explicit lyrics, and violence, reports the Chicago Tribune. “In the past, children from kindergarten to middle-school age had their own ‘kids’ music,’” but “today’s elementary school children are likely to be tuning in the same stations as their parents or teenage siblings.” And while recording companies in the United States are required to put warning labels on compact discs with violent or explicit lyrics to help keep them out of the hands of children, such music can easily be reviewed at listening stations in music stores. Diane Levin, a specialist in media culture and children, at Wheelock College in Boston, warned: “We get more and more desensitized as things get more and more extreme.” Spend Time Together as a Family - A 1997 study of more than 12,000 American teenagers found that youths who have close relationships with their parents are less likely to suffer from emotional stress, to have suicidal thoughts, to engage in violence... Kid Friendly Websites A baby’s brain at birth is only one fourth the weight it will be in adulthood. But the brain grows so rapidly that in just two years it reaches three fourths of its adult weight! Intellectual growth keeps pace. Researchers say that a child’s intelligence grows as much during the first four years of life as during the next thirteen. In fact, some state that the concepts the child learns before his fifth birthday are among the most difficult he’ll ever encounter.
DOBDINOB - A ground-breaking character building Steve Pullara & His Cool Beans Band - A fabulous and fun children's artist! Mr. Ray - Another wonderful children's Ralph's World - A really rocking children's artist! Dan Zanes (Yet another really great children's artist!) Loopy Moose Internet Radio (Hear Miss Amy
along with other children's artists!) Kids' Music Round - Music Fun and Education for Kids KIDiddles - Games, Sing-a-Long and More Child Anxiety Network - User-friendly information about child anxiety World News and Conditions - "Politics cannot begin to put the connecting tissue back in society. It is ill-equipped to reconstruct traditional moral beliefs. The best policies cannot recover courtship or marriage, make fathers responsible for their children, restore shock or shame where it once existed . . . The vast majority of moral problems that trouble us cannot be eradicated by law." - former U.S. government aide Have a site that you think is a GREAT kids
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