Infant Education

Two days ago, the well-known professor and youtuber, David Calle, sowed the controversy on Twitter with a comment that has been praised and criticized in equal parts by fellow professionals, students and parents. In his tweet, the teacher required teachers more self-criticism and passion when performing their duties, reminding them that they are the role model of their students.

There is no doubt that the internet has fully impacted our lives on a personal level and also on a family level. We are concerned as parents the distraction or isolation that can cause our children, and it is true that it can happen if we misuse technology, but it also has many good things to offer us.

The progress of the exams from September to June, which is being experienced for the first time in the Community of Madrid this course, has reopened the debate on whether this measure, inspired by the Bologna plan for universities, benefits children and the community educational in general. While parents' associations say that it hurts children because they do not have time to prepare the subjects (among other problems), in some communities where the measure has been going on for a longer time, they are happy with the results.

Integrating children in a situation of transsexuality is the objective of a new protocol that could be implemented experimentally in some schools in Castilla y León during the first quarter of next year. This is included in the "Protocol of educational attention and support to students in situations of transsexuality and students with non-normative gender expression" designed by the Ministry of Education, which includes measures for the inclusion of approximately twenty transsexual minors (from which has proof): allow mixed baths and guarantee freedom so that they dress as they feel more comfortable depending on their sexual identity, even if in the center they wear uniforms.

A group of researchers and professors from the University of Zaragoza are carrying out a research project to evaluate the benefits of using active videogames and gamification strategies in the classroom. The use of this type of videogames is something new in schools.

A nine-year-old boy enrolled in a school in the Valencian Community has not stepped on the schoolyard for seven months for not delivering a music job. His parents found out through third parties because the child was afraid and had said nothing, in addition to starting to see normal not having recess so much time punished.

The end of the school year is just around the corner, and the month of June is usually a month of tutoring and meetings with our children's teachers to take stock of the year that ends. In this regard, a friend told me the other day quite worried, that in her school she had been told that her son has passed the course "quite scattered" and "little attentive to the explanations of the teachers".

There is a widespread idea that children will read more if they have a device such as an iPad or a Kindle, but new research reveals that it doesn't have to be the case. In a study among children aged 10 to 12, those who had regular access to devices with the ability to read e-books (such as Kindles, iPads and mobile phones) did not usually use the devices for reading, even if they were children who read daily.

During an event organized in 2011 in Arizona (United States), Dr. George Land, author and disseminator, revealed to the audience the shocking result of a test he had conducted for NASA, but later decided to apply among children of young age. The original test was to measure the creative potential of rocket scientists and engineers, and although the results obtained were satisfactory for NASA's purposes, Land wanted to apply it to children in order to measure their creative potential.

José Vazquez is a local police officer from Oviedo, who has become popularly known for teaching driver education in schools, using large doses of humor, gait, ingenuity and sympathy that leaves no child indifferent. And it is that this policeman knows perfectly well that the little ones learn best is through the game, so he does not hesitate to resort to songs, stories and puppets to teach them the basic rules of road safety, some safety aspects citizen and even moral standards.

To play something, you must first know the rules. In the Cortes de Navarra Sports Club the children of the football teams already know them, it is their parents who have to do the homework. In the field there is a huge poster that details the nine rules that parents who attend as spectators have to meet their children's matches, among which are "do not shout at the coach" or understand that "this is a game."

Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero, secretary general and parliamentary spokesperson for Podemos, are making news because they have decided to move to a villa in Galapagar 40 km northwest of Madrid. One of the important reasons behind this decision is the proximity of the school where the two children who are waiting for the end of the summer will attend.

About 17 percent of children suffer some type of bullying, and it's not just a matter of older children. It is a situation that occurs in children of all ages, cases are recorded from three years to adolescence, most between 11 and 13 years. Bullying in preschool, early bullying or harassment at an early age is uncommon, but it is a situation that can occur.

We live in the digital age, and our children are being born and growing up in an environment in which information and communication technologies are part of their daily lives. The use of digital media and devices by children is not only not bad, but it can bring great benefits as long as they are used appropriately and moderately.

When you have a single parent family, it is possible that there are difficulties or situations different from those of a family with two figures. One of the concerns or beliefs is that coming from a single parent family could affect the school life of children. However, according to a recent report, having a single parent family does not influence the academic performance of children.

Erun Pazon waited in his health center to be treated by his family doctor, when he noticed a poster on one of the walls whose message caught his attention and decided to publish it on his social networks. In a few days, its publication has been viralized and is being shared by tens of thousands of users, who reflect on the content of the text and on the type of education children and adolescents are receiving today.

Reading stories to your children is one of the best ways to instill a fondness for reading. However, in our recent study more than a quarter of the elementary school children we interviewed said they never read them at home. Children normally like to be read and get educational, social and emotional benefits from this activity.

More and more countries and cities have begun to ban physical punishment in children and adolescents, because these are already recognized as a form of violence. Some time ago we shared that in France they had finally been banned, after the Council of Europe made a call for attention on this issue.

Is it possible to raise a child without absolutely any reference to their gender? Some parents are doing it. They do not want their children to be defined as either a boy or a girl at birth, nor during their childhood, until they are old enough to decide the gender with which they feel identified.

Children access the use of mobile phones at younger and younger ages. At eleven years old, almost half of the children have one, at 12 years old, three out of four and when they reach age 14, nine out of ten already make regular use of the device. The use of mobile also implies access to social networks and messaging applications, including the well-known WhatsApp that we have known that aims to raise the minimum age of use from 13 to 16 years.