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		<title>LeBron&#8217;s Departure Great Reminder:  Kids Are Going to Take Their Cue from Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written recently in this space about social learning theory and the importance for parents, teachers and coaches of remembering that kids learn as much (if not more) from what we do than from what we say.  Connie Schultz&#8217;s column in this week&#8217;s Plain Dealer, &#8220;Clevelanders Need to Act Like the Grown-ups in the LeBron James Saga,&#8221; offered a wonderful example of level-headed moral leadership in the face of disappointment,<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/lebrons-departure-great-reminder-kids-are-going-to-take-their-cue-from-us/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/lebrons-departure-great-reminder-kids-are-going-to-take-their-cue-from-us/</link>
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		<title>Common Sense Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Millions of parents have been counting on www.commonsensemedia.org for help in making decisions about what movies to take kids to for years.  If you haven’t used it yet, take a look at the site next time you’re not sure about whether a movie Junior’s begging to see is in your comfort zone.  What I appreciate about the site is that rather than tell you what you should think, the site’s<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/common-sense-media/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Get Better at Sports?  Better Turn on the TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You won’t very often hear a teacher urging parents to plant their kids in front of the TV, so savor this one:  Parents, if you want to help your kids get better at a sport, consider having them watch more TV.
Everybody knows by now that American kids watch too much TV and get too little exercise, leading to increased rates of childhood obesity and of related diseases such as diabetes. <a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/want-to-get-better-at-sports-better-turn-on-the-tv/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/want-to-get-better-at-sports-better-turn-on-the-tv/</link>
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		<title>Bring the Oil Spill Into the Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University of Minnesota this fall will offer a course entitled “Oil and Water: The Gulf Oil Spill of 2010.”  According to Miranda Taylor’s article in The Minnesota Daily, “the class will address the current crisis in the Gulf of Mexico by educating students on the history and ecology of the Gulf, the makeup of the Louisiana economy and the impact of past oil spills on humans and the environment.”
What<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/bring-the-oil-spill-into-the-classroom/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/07/bring-the-oil-spill-into-the-classroom/</link>
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		<title>Documentaries Can Offer Perfect Blend of Learning and Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking school-aged kids to see a documentary mixes the fun of going to the movies with powerful learning opportunities.  And Omnimax films aren’t the only documentaries available to share with young people.  A recent screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque reminded me that family friendly documentaries are available in a variety of venues if you’re willing to dig a little.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/documentaries-can-offer-perfect-blend-of-learning-and-fun/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Reading With Kids&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regina Brett&#8217;s wonderful column in today&#8217;s Plain Dealer offers wonderful examples of parents and grandparents reading to and with older children.  If you think your teens are too old, or you’ve gotten out of the habit but wish you hadn’t, check it out!
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		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/reading-with-kids/</link>
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		<title>“You May Not Listen to What I Say, But I Know You’re Listening to What I Do”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents have probably always known that command, “Do as I say, not as I do” is as fruitless as it is hypocritical.  Indeed, much more important that what we say to kids is what they see us do. 
The famous “Bobo the Clown” research of psychologist Albert Bandura brought this reality chillingly home in the 1960s.  In this experiment, children were shown video tape of an adult interacting with an inflatable<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/%e2%80%9cyou-may-not-listen-to-what-i-say-but-i-know-you%e2%80%99re-listening-to-what-i-do%e2%80%9d/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/%e2%80%9cyou-may-not-listen-to-what-i-say-but-i-know-you%e2%80%99re-listening-to-what-i-do%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Empower Kids by Helping Them Identify with a Positive Role or Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the idea of projecting an as yet unverified positive attribute onto a child in your care (see last week’s post) strikes you as a bit disingenuous, consider the equally powerful cousin of this approach:  rather than project a belief about the capacity of a child, many parents, teachers and coaches find it very effective to project onto the young people in their care a sense of group identity, an<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/empower-kids-by-helping-them-identify-with-a-positive-role-or-value/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/empower-kids-by-helping-them-identify-with-a-positive-role-or-value/</link>
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		<title>The Pygmalion Effect:  The Beneficial Power of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post focused on the potentially devastating effects of labeling, in which a student suffers from the low or negative expectations of parents or teachers.  The flip side of that too common phenomenon might be called “positive labeling,” the happy result of which is kids growing into positive, successful behaviors or roles based on expectations projected onto them by loving adults.
Educational psychologists call this dynamic the “Pygmalion effect.”  Studies<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/the-pygmalion-effect-the-beneficial-power-of-the-self-fulfilling-prophecy/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/06/the-pygmalion-effect-the-beneficial-power-of-the-self-fulfilling-prophecy/</link>
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		<title>Better Watch Whom You Call a &#8220;Monster&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers of the Old English epic poem Beowulf are  asked to accept at face value that the accursed Grendel, the larger-than-life beast who has been terrorizing  King Hrothgar’s mead-hall for a dozen years, is a  monster.  And most of us easily accept  this designation.  After all, Grendel’s pretty darn big and scary, and he’s capable of  making a meal out of more than one brawny<a href="http://blogs.geniocity.com/tibbitts/2010/05/better-watch-whom-you-call-a-monster/">&#160;<b>Read more</b></a>]]></description>
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