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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
My son loves Wubbzy
My 5 1/2 year old daughter too, but not in the evening. It gets her too worked up. She actually really loves "How it's Made". It is a Kids show and a Grown-ups show all in one. We watch it together and it helps build her vocabulary. -Mike
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Check out the price of replacement bulbs for a projector - and the expected life of the bulb. If it is genuinely for your 4 year old I would just buy the cheapest no-name brand you can (or, better still, buy him some leggo, building bricks, paints, soccer balls, plants, cookery items, books, musical instruments) HD quality is not going to make a spliff of difference to someone of that age (indeed One In Five HDTV Owners Can't Tell Standard Def From HD[^]) We do have a TV (I have a five year old) and we try to limit the TV (none on school mornings, for example) he watches. He actually prefers documentaries most of the time (but also likes funniest home videos and talent shows). Being a single child, it's kinda hard sometimes to entertain him, so having the TV there is good (for us) but can be an issue. Telling him he can't watch it is much harder than just not having one at all!
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I work at a mental health facility. One of the doctors is doing a research project on the question of whether "only children" have a significantly more difficult time developing long-term relationships as adults, when compared to children of larger families. If only-children do have a more difficult time, this may go a long way to explaining the rising divorce rate, rate of workplace discontentment, patterns of altruism, and other elements of our increasingly narcissistic culture. I would say, "Watch this space," but it may take the doctor years to assemble and publish his results, given the level of effort he can afford to devote to it.
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I work at a mental health facility. One of the doctors is doing a research project on the question of whether "only children" have a significantly more difficult time developing long-term relationships as adults, when compared to children of larger families. If only-children do have a more difficult time, this may go a long way to explaining the rising divorce rate, rate of workplace discontentment, patterns of altruism, and other elements of our increasingly narcissistic culture. I would say, "Watch this space," but it may take the doctor years to assemble and publish his results, given the level of effort he can afford to devote to it.
Well, that's something to look forward to! Seriously, it's interesting to look at some of the crap that's talked about in the media - so it would be good to have a scientific study on this sort of thing. For example, I have seen it put forward that single children families are more likely to have divorced parents - with all sorts of theories put forward as to why this would be. But when you look at the data it is based upon, it is merely that the percentage of single-child families has doubled (between 1976 and 2002) and the divorce rate has risen similarly. Surely they must realise that, once divorced, it's less likely that family will increase its numbers? Surely divorce here is the cause of the unity of offspring? I have also seen studies where they suggest (through interviews mainly with teachers) that single children form much stronger ties to smaller numbers of individuals (i.e. they have fewer friends, but are very closely attached to them emotionally) The longevity of these relationships was not discussed in depth because the study was of early-childhood, and movement from kindy to school etc. artificially broke many relationships. If it is true that only-children have a more difficult time forming long-term relationships - then would this not be indicated by a lower marriage rate in single children - as opposed to a higher divorce rate?
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