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Text messages killing face-to-face interaction?

While cellphones are supposed to help parents keep track of their kids, parents and teachers have noted that texting allows teens to negotiate issues like extending curfews and assignment deadlines without having to argue the case in a face-to-face or even voice-to-voice conversation with a difficult adult.

I'm no Trekkie, but youthful devotion to text messaging reminds me of the Borg, an alien race organized as a collective. Its reason for existence is to gobble up all intelligent life in the galaxy. Everyone must be assimilated into the hive. Resistance is futile.

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Women perform pole tricks during a Polepeople pole dancing class May 3, 2006 in London, England.

Pole-dancing for tweens raises concerns

Summer school for some Canadian girls means Pole 101.

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Harvard University students attend commencement ceremonies June 4, 2009 in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Are expensive undergrad programs waste of money?

Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities such as Harvard University and Yale is a waste of money, a new book asserts.

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Playing music boosts kids' brain power

Kids' brain power, it turns out, is radically better boosted by learning to play music than just listening to it.

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Comic fans wait outside before the start of Comic-Con International: San Diego 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 21, 2010 in San Diego, California.

Comics help develop reading skills

Teachers and school boards should embrace comic books and graphic novels as a "gateway" literature.

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Martina Rosini saw the need for baby- concierge services when she was pregnant with her daughter Olivia.

Baby planners take the drudgery out of preparing for new child

"Baby concierges" are being enlisted by expectant moms and dads to help navigate the minefield of stroller shopping, nursery decor and everything in between.

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How do you get your kids outside and on the move? Lead by example.

Lead by example to get kids off the couch

In my day, summer meant cycling around the neighbourhood, playing in the park and hanging around at the pool. Parental supervision was from a distance and kids spent most of the day outside.

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Parents have similarly taken offence at the modern term's uprising, as "childfree" bears a negative insinuation that anyone with kids is somehow tethered down in life.

'Non-moms' find child-free terminology offensive

Nearly one in five U.S. women see their child-bearing years come and go without having a baby, up from just one in 10 in the 1970s. The dramatic increase, described in a new report by the Pew Research...

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Nearly 20 percent of older women do not have children, compared to 10 percent in the 1970s, the Pew Research Center said.

More American women not having children: report

More American women are choosing not to have children than three decades ago, according to a new report.

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Parents are keeping kids away from home this summer

Regardless of what school kids are doing this summer, one thing is clear: Most parents are keeping them away from home. According to a new Ipsos-Reid poll conducted for canada.com, a clear majority of...

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"By all means, take your children out, but actually take them out: engage them, communicate with them, be part of what's going on," Fox-Revett says.

Engage your kids in dining experiences

As foodie appreciation goes mainstream, more parents are bringing even the smallest diners along for high-end meals, where they're as likely to request such exotic fare as foie gras and duck confit as...

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Many Canadian children actually want their parents to be more involved, the study said, with 83 per cent saying they follow family rules for Internet use.

Kids feel personally responsible for negative encounters online

Children are blaming themselves for negative experiences they've had online and Canadian kids say they turn off their computers feeling angry, upset or afraid, according to a worldwide study released ...

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If a child took the test within a week of a local murder, his or her score was 7-8 points lower on average than the score of a similar child in a similar neighborhood where there was no murder.

Murders in neighbourhood lower IQ tests scores

A murder in the neighborhood can significantly knock down a child's score on an IQ test, even if the child did not directly witness the killing or know the victim, U.S. researchers reported on June 14...

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