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Boys Who Sit Still Have a Harder Time Learning to Read | Time
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Anybody who has watched little boys for even five seconds knows that they are exhausting. At school, they tear around the playground, bolt through corridors and ricochet off classroom walls. According to a new Finnish study, this is all helping them to be better at reading. The study, released Nov. 30 in the ...
Guardian: 'I couldn't sit still, I couldn't be on my own': how I coped with my ...
I couldn't read, I couldn't write, I couldn't sit still, I couldn't be on my own. One evening, the room around me shifted like a glitch in the matrix and I wondered if any of it was real. “I just want to get back to myself,” I wailed to my husband, who wasn't much less frightened than me. “But what if I can't?”.
Don't tell children to 'sit still' - they will end up as fat couch potatoes
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Telling children to “sit still” sets them up for a lifetime of obesity, a report by MPs and peers has warned. Parents and teachers should “treasure the young child's natural inclination to be physically active” instead of telling them to stop fidgeting or to be seated for long periods, the parliamentary group said.
Why Kids Shouldn't Sit Still in Class - The New York Times
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Sit still. It's the mantra of every classroom. But that is changing as evidence builds that taking brief activity breaks during the day helps children learn and be more attentive in class, and a growing number of programs designed to promote movement are being adopted in schools. “We need to recognize that ...
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