Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning

Good news for laid-back parents. Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning  When children spend more time in structured activities, they get worse at working toward goals, making decisions, and regulating their behavior, according to a new study. Instead, kids might learn more when they have the responsibility to decide for themselves what they're going to do with their time.  Psychologists at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver studied the schedules of 70 six-year olds, and they found that the kids who spent more time...

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Affordable Organic Eatery - at last!

We do have bad days. You know the kind of day where everyone wakes up grouchy, anything that can go wrong does, anything that can be broken, spilled or lost does exactly that, the laundry pile towers over us and the sink is so full of dirty dishes that nothing else can go in? On those kinds of days, we eat out. It used to be a tussle between expensive but healthy food (Cedele, SaladStop, Real Food) or cheap but unhealthy, MSG-filled hawker food. We've finally found a vegetarian hawker stall that serves organic food! They serve brown rice, veggies, curry, tau kwa and egg. They use sea salt...

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