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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. 

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5 Real Working Mom Hacks to Simplify Your Back-to-School Routine

Getting back into the swing of school is no easy feat. Sure, there’s a moment of relief that everyone will be back to a regular routine, but it’s short-lived when the homework appears and chaos ensues over all those after-school activities. It doesn’t take much until you’re counting down the days to summer.

Over the years I’ve picked up a quite a few helpful parenting hacks, and tucked my favorite tips and tricks into my new book, Real Moms, Real Hacks .

Here are a few faves to help beat those back - to - school blues:

(Continue on Working Mother)

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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?

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Happy Independence Day!

From our family at Super Parenting LLC, to yours, we're hoping you enjoy a safe holiday with family and friends!

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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

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New Study Challenges View About Children’s Moral Judgment

Children’s ability to make moral judgments has often been underestimated, according to a new study.

When making moral judgments, adults tend to focus on people’s intentions rather than on the outcomes of their actions — hurting someone intentionally is much worse than hurting them accidentally.

However, the prevailing view in developmental psychology is that younger children’s moral judgments are mainly based on the outcomes of actions, rather than the intentions of those involved, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in England.

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Too Much TV At Age 2 May Set The Stage for Social Problems at 13

A new University of Montreal study suggests that young children who watch too much television are at risk of developing violent and antisocial behavior toward other students at age 13.

Researchers discovered extreme television viewing around the age of 2 increases the risk of student victimization and social isolation.

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Some Gaming, But Not Too Much, is Good for Kids’ Brains

Playing video games can help children and teens build better brain circuits important for learning, but keeping playtime limited is the key to reaping these benefits, as too much gaming can have detrimental effects, according to a new study published in the journal Annals of Neurology.

The findings show that one hour of gaming per week was associated with stronger motor skills and higher achievement scores, but no further benefits were found for kids who played more than two hours per week. In fact, excessive time spent on video games was linked to behavioral problems, peer conflicts and poorer social skills.

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The right way to care for a child with a concussion

Playing fields aren't the only places concussions can happen. In fact, most concussions happen to non-athletes. Car and bicycle accidents, fights, and even minor falls are just a few of the jarring events that can cause a temporary disruption in brain function.

If your child experiences a concussion, chances are you'll want to do everything in your power to expedite their recovery. However, a new survey commissioned by UCLA Health finds that most parents follow outdated advice on treating concussions.

Heeding outdated advice, such as waking children during the night and keeping them sedentary during the day, may actually cause further harm.

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What Causes Bedwetting?

Recently, a mother of a 7-year old girl called me, in tears, because her daughter was wetting the bed at night — and she had just received her first invitation for a sleepover. They were both upset.

The little girl had a long list of worries. She was embarrassed about the bedwetting and unsure why it was happening. She was afraid to go to a sleepover because surely her friend would notice that she wet the bed. Most of all, she was stressed out about school. She struggled to keep up in her classroom and didn’t know how to ask for help. She buried her emotions, tried her best to get through each day, and worried her way through each night. The anxiety she faced during the day triggered her bedwetting at night, as anxiety tends to do.

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21 Ways to Get Your Family Back on Track

Every family goes through it. That unsettled period where routines are derailed. Family life feels off-kilter and unsustainable. Sometimes it’s work, illness or one of life’s curve balls that throws us off-course. Other times it’s something more pleasant like a family holiday that upsets the balance. Even the school holidays are enough to throw family life off kilter.

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The Only Effective Way to Talk With Children When They Are Acting Out

Did you know that yelling at your child can cause just as much damage to them as hitting them? [1] The majority of parents resort to yelling, screaming, or simply raising their voices when they are trying to get a message through to their child who is acting out. They know that yelling isn’t the best way to parent, yet time and time again they find themselves raising their voice as it seems to be the fall back method to get their child to listen.

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Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day to all of the SUPER DADS raising superheroes of their own! Your love, guidance, protection, provision, and sacrifices are appreciated!

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Eleven years ago, a plate of scrambled eggs changed my life. I thought nothing about the blue yogurt I’d put out for breakfast for my four little kids or the plate of scrambled eggs.

Not until our youngest started to fuss. I thought she was tired, so I put her down for a nap. For some reason, which I still cannot explain, I went to check on her, and her face was swollen shut. I raced her to the emergency room.

“This looks like an allergic reaction,” the pediatrician said. “What did you feed the kids for breakfast?” And she started rattling off data on food allergies. The condition now impacts 1 in 13 kids, two kids in every classroom. A life-threatening allergic reaction sends someone to the emergency room in the U.S. once every three minutes. My heart raced as I watched my baby struggle to breathe, and as we got her under control, I wanted to understand what was happening: why do so many American children now have food allergies?

(via FFoodRevolution.org)