Kids may benefit from watching their parents resolve problems, study finds
By Linda Carroll
msnbc.com contributor
MSNBC.com
Quarreling couples, relax. It may be OK to argue in front of your kids — as long as you fight fair.
Experts have long cautioned that children can experience serious psychological harm if they witness their parents fighting. But a new study, published in the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, suggests that children might actually benefit from watching their parents sort problems out.
“In some ways, kids benefit from seeing their parents disagreeing — and even being mildly angry,” says study co-author Patrick Davies, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester. “It gives them a lesson on how you can come to a mutually acceptable solution through compromise.”
The new study may ease the guilt of well-meaning parents who aren’t able to hide every dispute from their children. “I think the conclusion of this study — that not all marital conflict is destructive to children — may come as a relief to parents,” says Alan E. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University.
That’s true for Brett Moshure, a 45-year-old executive consultant in Morgan Hill, Calif. Moshure and his wife agreed early on that they would never argue about the kids in front of the kids. But every other topic was fair game.
Sometimes things get heated, but Moshure wouldn’t do it any other way.
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What's it like teaching English to the Chinese? For Gary Toner, Beijing is anything but a forbidding city. Interview by Christopher Middleton
April 20, Telegraph
I started teaching English abroad when I was 22, soon after I graduated from university; I'm 35 now and have been doing it ever since. If you want to travel the world, there are a few ways to earn money while you do so.
You can pick fruit, pull pints or teach English. The third option has definitely suited me best. I've taught in Russia, Argentina, Spain and Slovakia and stayed an average of two years in each country. That said, I've been in China for five years. (I'm married now - my wife Sinead also works in Beijing and we have a little daughter called Niamh.)
Our flat is in the Sanlitun area, not far from the main football stadium, and I work at various schools in the city. The demand for English language teachers is staggering. Basically, if a Chinese person wants a job with an international company such as Hewlett Packard, then English is a must.
Teaching English in a country like Italy is another story. Everyone wants to work in Florence and there are bound to be lots of you chasing one job. In Beijing there aren't enough teachers to go round. Both the Chinese government and the business world are investing heavily in getting people to speak English, not least because of this year's Olympics.
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photo: Gary Toner in the classroom. Past and present: demand for English language tuition is soaring in Beijing, where ESL teacher Gary Toner is based (By Martin Pope)
By ELIZABETH WEIL
March 02, NY Times
On an unseasonably cold day last November in Foley, Ala., Colby Royster and Michael Peterson, two students in William Bender’s fourth-grade public-school class, informed me that the class corn snake could eat a rat faster than the class boa constrictor. Bender teaches 26 fourth graders, all boys. Down the hall and around the corner, Michelle Gay teaches 26 fourth-grade girls. The boys like being on their own, they say, because girls don’t appreciate their jokes and think boys are too messy, and are also scared of snakes.
The walls of the boys’ classroom are painted blue, the light bulbs emit a cool white light and the thermostat is set to 69 degrees. In the girls’ room, by contrast, the walls are yellow, the light bulbs emit a warm yellow light and the temperature is kept six degrees warmer, as per the instructions of Leonard Sax, a family physician turned author and advocate who this May will quit his medical practice to devote himself full time to promoting single-sex public education.
Foley Intermediate School began offering separate classes for boys and girls a few years ago, after the school’s principal, Lee Mansell, read a book by Michael Gurian called “Boys and Girls Learn Differently!” After that, she read a magazine article by Sax and thought that his insights would help improve the test scores of Foley’s lowest-achieving cohort, minority boys. Sax went on to publish those ideas in “Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences.”
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photo: An all-girls class of fourth-graders at Foley Intermediate School (Michele Asselin for The New York Times)
Jan 23, Chronicle
It seems that an offer by a private investor to buy Rio Salado College will go nowhere.
Michael K. Clifford had sent a letter to Arizona’s Maricopa County Community College District, of which Rio Salado is a part, offering $5,000 per student or $400-million, whichever amount was greater, to purchase the two-year institution. Mr. Clifford, a born-again Christian, has an interest in online and evangelical colleges, having led investors to buy Grand Canyon University, a Christian institution, in 2004.
Inside Higher Ed, a higher-education news service, published an article today about the offer, suggesting that officials at the college were seriously discussing whether to accept Mr. Clifford’s offer. In fact, officials at the college say, they received the letter only late last week and hardly had time to consider it.
But a message sent this evening to faculty and staff members at Maricopa Community College put the matter to rest. “I feel the need to set the record straight,” wrote Rufus Glasper, chancellor of the Maricopa system. “Rio Salado College is not for sale.”
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By Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent
Jan 8, The Guardian
The Board of Deputies of British Jews is planning to recruit a Muslim adviser as part of a scheme to link schools dominated by a single faith.
The adviser will help develop religious and culturally sensitive programmes that will appeal to Jewish and Muslim schools taking part in its Shared Futures project, which fosters respect between pupils from the two faith communities.
The Board of Deputies is the first religious organisation in the UK to launch such a scheme, which complies with government requirements on promoting community cohesion in state-maintained faith schools.
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