在这个空间里,我们可以进行更深入的对话。 Inspired by the 2016 presidential debates, I asked this group of boys an age-old question: "Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?" 受到2016年总统辩论的启发,我向这群男孩提出了一个老生常谈的问题:“绝对权力是否绝对腐败?” Students began to discuss amongs...
Globally, 149 million children under 5 years of age are estimated to be stunted (length more than 2 standard deviations below international growth standards)1,2. Stunting, a form of linear growth faltering, increases the risk of illness, impaired cogniti
Yes, you would – because you got up to the same things. You just did them in different ways, using very different technology. They have “sexting” (verbal sexting, I mean – sending nude or nearly nude images is very rare in this age group), we had dirty notes passed in class. We...
Childhood COVID disease in LMICs In LMICs most reported COVID-19 cases have occurred in adults, with much fewer cases in children [3], [20]. In Kenya, 3.0% of the 2600 confirmed COVID-19 cases are children <10 years of age, and only 1% of deaths among confirmed cases have occurre...
It’s probably some sort of leftover childhood thing. Even now I can’t sleep without the window partially (wide) open, even in winter, because closed windows equal no oxygen. I could asphyxiate in my sleep. I was also never really worried about contracting the virus. Even if I did ...
The research established that more children in this age group are attending reviews and planning meetings, but that the likelihood of their attendance varies with age and other factors. The paper explores reasons why some children are more likely to attend meetings than others, and uses material ...
A boy cries in a school playground. A new British study has found that some behaviours considered problematic in childhood can lead to higher salaries later in life. School bullies are likely to end up with higher salaries, a new study suggests, upending the conventional wisdom that they will...
Children who were wasted before the age of 6 months had a faster recovery and shorter episodes than did children who were wasted at older ages; however, early wasting increased the risk of later growth faltering, including concurrent wasting and stunting (low length-for-age z-score), and ...
1-2. We think of infancy before childhood and middle age before old age, with each unique ___bringing its own ___ set of challenges.3-4. Most of us know about the phases of life which we ___ to ___ different age groups and life stages: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and...
ages 5 and 12, children typically see their pediatricians less than half as often than they did previously.Their lower rate of pediatric visits is due in part to having fewer illnesses, and in part because fewer health visits are recommended for this age group than for any other group. Tradi...