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How Matt Groening’s Childhood Fear of Robots Led to the Creation of ‘Futurama’

By JM McNab Published: November 13th, 2024




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Melissa McCarthy Says That If the ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake Ruined Your Childhood Then You Must Have Had a ‘Sh*tty Childhood’

By JM McNab Published: November 13th, 2024




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How to Stop Childhood Obesity Ruining Your Child's Life - A Childhood Challenges eBook

Extensive research, and up-to-date facts about obese children and its health issues. An easy-to-read book with practical advice that can make a difference. Plus free bonus book of hints and tips to improve your child's eating habits.



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Africa: Countries Pledge to Act On Childhood Violence Affecting Some 1 Billion Children

[WHO] More than 100 governments today made historic commitments to end childhood violence, including nine pledging to ban corporal punishment - an issue that affects 3 out of every 5 children regularly in their homes. These commitments were made at a landmark event in Bogotá, Colombia, where government delegations are set to agree on a new global declaration aimed at protecting children from all kinds of violence, exploitation and abuse.




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The Childhood of Jesus

As we celebrate the Feast of the Entry into the Temple of our Lord, Fr. Tom reflects on the childhood of Jesus. What we know, what we don't know, and what we can surmise.




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Childhood Heroes

Dr. John Mark Reynolds speaks on remembering those heroes that our culture is not really able to elevate visually the same way you would visualize a super hero flying through the sky.




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Implementing a Robotics Curriculum in an Early Childhood Montessori Classroom




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Computer Science Education in Early Childhood: The Case of ScratchJr

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to explore whether having state Computer Science standards in place will increase young children’s exposure to coding and powerful ideas from computer science in the early years. Background: Computer science education in the K-2 educational segment is receiving a growing amount of attention as national and state educational frameworks are emerging. By focusing on the app ScratchJr, the most popular free introductory block-based programming language for early childhood, this paper explores if there is a relationship between the presence of state frameworks and ScratchJr’s frequency of use. Methodology: This paper analyzes quantitative non-identifying data from Google Analytics on users of the ScratchJr programming app. Google Analytics is a free tool that allows access to user activity as it happens in real time on the app, as well as audience demographics and behavior. An analysis of trends by state, time of year, type of in-app activities completed, and more are analyzed with a specific focus on comparing states with K-12 Computer Science in place versus those without. Contribution: Results demonstrate the importance of having state standards in place to increase young children’s exposure to coding and powerful ideas from computer science in the early years. Moreover, we see preliminary evidence that states with Computer Science standards in place support skills like perseverance and debugging through ScratchJr. Findings: Findings show that in the case of ScratchJr, app usage decreases during the summer months and on weekends, which may indicate that coding with ScratchJr is more often happening in school than at home. Results also show that states with Computer Science standards have more ScratchJr users on average and have more total sessions with the app on average. Results also show preliminary evidence that states with Computer Science standards in place have longer average session duration as well as a higher average number of users returning to edit an existing project. Recommendations for Practitioners: Successful early childhood computer science education programs must teach powerful ideas from the discipline of computer science in a developmentally appropriate way, provide means for self-expression, prompt debugging and problem solving, and offer a low-floor/high-ceiling interface for both novices and experts. Practitioners should be aware in drops in computer science learning during the summer months when school is not in session. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers should consider the impact of state and national frameworks on computer science learning and skills mastered during the early childhood years. Researchers should look for ways to continue engaging students in computer science education during times when school is not in session. Impact on Society: Results demonstrate the importance of having state CS standards in place to increase young children’s exposure to coding and powerful ideas from computer science in the early years. Moreover, we see preliminary evidence that states with Computer Science standards in place support skills like perseverance and debugging through ScratchJr. Future Research: Future research should continue collecting Google Analytics from the ScratchJr app and track changes in usage. Future research should also collect analytics from a wide range of programming applications for young children to see if the trends identified here are consistent across different apps.




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Learning to be (multi)national: Greek diasporic childhood re-memories of nationalism and nation-building in Australia.

Children's Geographies; 10/01/2021
(AN 152966705); ISSN: 14733285
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Working with childhoods and energies: critical reflections on specifying and locating the intangible.

Children's Geographies; 11/24/2021
(AN 153737733); ISSN: 14733285
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Belittled Citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins: edited by Giuseppe Bolotta, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021, 250 pp., hardback £70.00/paperback £22.50, ISBN 978-87-7694-300-4 hardback/ISBN 978-87-7694-301-1 paperbac

Children's Geographies; 02/01/2022
(AN 154441562); ISSN: 14733285
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An ethnography of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian migrants: childhood, family, and work: by Ethel Volfzon Kosminsky, New York, London: Lanham, Boulder, Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 376, $120.00 (£92.00) hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4985-2259-5.

Children's Geographies; 02/01/2022
(AN 154441552); ISSN: 14733285
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Unearned advantages? Redefining privilege in light of childhood.

Children's Geographies; 02/01/2022
(AN 154441554); ISSN: 14733285
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Reconfiguring child–adult relationships in foster care with implications for childhood studies.

Children's Geographies; 06/01/2022
(AN 156867989); ISSN: 14733285
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Childhood prism research: an approach for enabling unique childhood studies contributions within the wider scholarly field.

Children's Geographies; 06/01/2022
(AN 156867993); ISSN: 14733285
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Found childhood as a practice of child as method.

Children's Geographies; 06/01/2022
(AN 156867988); ISSN: 14733285
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From childhood studies to childism: reconstructing the scholarly and social imaginations.

Children's Geographies; 06/01/2022
(AN 156867992); ISSN: 14733285
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Society and social changes through the prism of childhood: Editorial.

Children's Geographies; 06/01/2022
(AN 156867998); ISSN: 14733285
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Creativity in childhood: exploring how children's experiences of creativity can be understood intersectionally and spatially.

Children's Geographies; 10/01/2022
(AN 159948772); ISSN: 14733285
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(In)visible encounters with indigeneity: a way towards decolonizing pedagogies in early childhood education.

Children's Geographies; 10/01/2022
(AN 159948771); ISSN: 14733285
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Introduction: Modernity, Schooling and Childhood in India: Trajectories of Exclusion.

Children's Geographies; 12/01/2022
(AN 160715515); ISSN: 14733285
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Childhood and belonging over time: narratives of identity across generations on Tasmania's east coast.

Children's Geographies; 02/01/2023
(AN 163249008); ISSN: 14733285
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Childhood(s) through time: an intergenerational lens on flexible narratives of childhood in Irish coastal communities.

Children's Geographies; 02/01/2023
(AN 163249009); ISSN: 14733285
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Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the underground worlds of Birrarung Marr.

Children's Geographies; 03/04/2023
(AN 162913694); ISSN: 14733285
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Exploring children's participation in the framework of early childhood environmental education.

Children's Geographies; 06/01/2023
(AN 164286250); ISSN: 14733285
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Children as 'difference makers': viral discourses of childhood innocence and activism in #Blacklivesmatter.

Children's Geographies; 10/01/2023
(AN 173035618); ISSN: 14733285
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In and out of focus: a reflective Peter Kraftl's After Childhood.

Children's Geographies; 12/01/2023
(AN 174964060); ISSN: 14733285
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An urban neighbourhood framework for realising progress towards the New Urban Agenda for equitable early childhood development.

Children's Geographies; 12/01/2023
(AN 174964051); ISSN: 14733285
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Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: situated encounters with country in times of climate change*.

Children's Geographies; 12/27/2023
(AN 174488028); ISSN: 14733285
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Climate crisis activism in early childhood: building capacities to boost intergenerational learning.

Children's Geographies; 02/21/2024
(AN 175584272); ISSN: 14733285
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Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: rethinking 'left-behind children' through the case of 'liushou children' in China.

Children's Geographies; 08/01/2024
(AN 178911409); ISSN: 14733285
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Constructing and governing freedom – physical environments as a discursive practice in Swedish early childhood education.

Children's Geographies; 10/01/2024
(AN 180134753); ISSN: 14733285
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Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK.

Children's Geographies; 10/01/2024
(AN 180134748); ISSN: 14733285
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