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PASHA Orthodontics in Naperville invited high school seniors to apply for its 2015 college scholarship — $450, $350, and $250 awards for patients entering
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In 2014, Suchitra Sharma asked why parents perform their children's achievements on Facebook. The humblebrag is older now — and bigger. From the TI archives.
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From the TI archives: a parent's 2014 shortlist of magazines, toys, science kits, and free learning sites to keep kids aged 5–12 curious — most of them
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How to raise self-motivated learners: praise effort over outcomes, set written goals, define steps — and let kids learn that failure is part of the process.
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NYC subway workers bent the rules and delayed a train to retrieve a little girl's dropped stuffed animal — a small kindness that went viral.
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Can street smarts be taught? A look at whether parents can pass on the ability to read situations, spot danger, and navigate unfamiliar environments.
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A Thanksgiving poem by Shlok Sharma, who is thankful for homework, scrawny nerds and boring Mondays, because each one comes with a funny upside.
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"Sharma ji ka beta scored 98 percent." Comparing children to others feels like motivation — psychology says it mostly produces anxiety. What to do instead.
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A Danish study of 161,696 young men linked hospital-treated childhood infections with lower IQ — an association, not proof of cause, from later research.
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Little Village Academy in Chicago banned packed lunches — students must eat the cafeteria food. A 2011 flashpoint in the debate over who controls what kids eat.
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams argued in 2011 that schools should teach business skills instead of calculus and art history.
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Sesame Street’s Urdu adaptation, Sim Sim Hamara, brought Elmo to Pakistani television — a case for making children’s TV genuinely local, not dubbed.
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At twelve, summer camp stops being canoes and campfire songs and becomes a social inflection point. What actually makes camp work at that age — choice, not
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