Education of Children

 Santa Claus is considered a myth or fairy tale made up by adults to keep their children in line. The idea that Santa Claus can see them and know whether they are good or bad, help parents enforce good behavior especially around the Christmas season. Explaining Santa Claus to a child is easy if you know what to tell them.   To explain to your children about Santa you are going to have to make the decision when to do so. Tell them the original Christmas story. According to the St. Nicholas Center website, the introduction of "Sante Claus," as opposed to St. Nicholas, first originated in a book called "The Children's Friend", first written in 1821. Over the years, Santa has become a symbol of giving and good cheer. On the other hand, many parents have memories of sadness when finding out the jolly old man did not exist, and some even felt betrayed that their parents had misled them. There are ways to tell the truth and still keep the Santa legend alive.

  Rania Chiourea The cutest carol concert ever: Little schoolgirl SIGNS as kindergarten class sings so her deaf parents can enjoy the show too! What an awesome message to send the world this Christmas! No matter what language we speak, it is possible to communicate with each other IF we listen closely enough and with an open heart. Holy moly, this is adorable. Very entertaining video of a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) enthusiastically singing holiday songs using sign language and animated facial expressions. Kindergartener Uses Sign Language So Mom and Dad Can Enjoy Pageant. It's so impressive and inspiring ! She is absolutely amazing !!!! While belting out  Christmas songs at a school concert, 5-year-old Claire Koch (is the blonde in the middle) can be seen signing the songs and performing sign language so her hearing-impaired parents Lori και Thomas J. Koch could understand the lyrics. So sweet and thoughtful of her at such a young age, to remember to sign the songs for her Par

By Michael Ray King   Every year you hear it: Someone says "I can't believe they are putting up Christmas trees already." You look around and you know it's too early. But is it? What if you purchased your Christmas gifts BEFORE Halloween? What if you wrapped them, tucked them away in the closet, and focused yourself and your children on what Christmas is supposed to mean rather than all the greed-mongering that goes on these days? What an opportunity! If you, as a father, are not out attempting to buy the latest fad toy, you will have more time to direct your children into wholesome and highly beneficial endeavours like volunteer work. There are literally thousands of volunteer organizations that gear up just for the holiday season. Most, if not all, desperately need volunteer help. By volunteering yourself, you send a strong message to your children about what is truly important at Christmas. The idea here is that it's "not what you get

Findings support idea that gut micro biome has a role By Sara Reardon and Nature magazine n Sha Doses of a human gut microbe helped to reverse behavioral problems in mice with autism-like symptoms, researchers report today in Cell . The treatment also reduced gastrointestinal problems in the animals that were similar to those that often accompany autism in humans. The work builds on previous research by Paul Patterson, a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. In 2012, he and his team created mice with autism-like symptoms by injecting a chemical that mimics viral infection into pregnant mice; those animals then bore offspring that were less sociable and more anxious than wild-type animals. The autistic mice also had 'leaky guts', in which the walls of the intestine break down and allow substances to leak through. Several studies have found that humans with autism are also more likely to have gastrointestinal disorders, suggesting