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And I tried, as a child, as a teenager, to read philosophy and to get involved in art and religion and many other ways that I could see as a possible answer to that question.
You know, the whole XO laptop, from One Laptop per Child, is based on the idea of collaboration and mash and networking.
That this old man would interrupt his moonlight stroll with his sweetheart with the precise reason of making fun of a
child.
Here, he's present for me in the work that I do, in the
child
that we had together, in these three other children I'm raising, who never met him, who share none of his DNA, but who are only in my life because I had Aaron and because I lost Aaron.
In fact, a
child
living with poverty is likely to perform worse on tests of language and impulse control before they even turn two.
So while growing up in poverty is certainly a risk factor for a smaller brain surface, in no way can I know an individual
child'
s family income and know with any accuracy what that particular
child'
s brain would look like.
One is a young
child
born into poverty in America; the other is also an American child, but one who was born into more fortunate circumstances.
But by the time those two kids are ready to start kindergarten, we know that the
child
living in poverty is likely to have cognitive scores that are, on average, 60 percent lower than those of the other
child.
Later on, that
child
living in poverty will be five times more likely to drop out of high school, and if she does graduate high school, she'll be less likely to earn a college degree.
By the time those two kids are 35 years old, if the first
child
spent her entire childhood living in poverty, she is up to 75 times more likely to be poor herself.
Now, this concept, known as neuroplasticity, means that these differences in children's brain structure don't doom a
child
to a life of low achievement.
And if a
child'
s brain can be changed, then anything is possible.
It can be challenging, it can be labor-intensive, sometimes costly ... and on occasion, it can be somewhat patronizing for scientists to swoop in and tell a family what they need to change in order for their
child
to succeed.
Put simply, if we can show that reducing poverty changes how children's brains develop and that leads to meaningful policy changes, then a young
child
born into poverty today may have a much better shot at a brighter future.
Other than that, I didn't know what it meant to be a
child
of Bengali immigrants in Brooklyn or to be Senegalese in the Bronx.
Or let's say that you want to help your
child
do better on her math homework.
When she got up to make tea, she placed him in my own lap and I had never felt a
child
that was that emaciated.
One of the themes that comes through very strongly in the piece we just watched is this sense of the psychological trauma of the young that have to play this role of being
child
soldiers.
her tongue can't lay itself down flat enough for the English language, it got too much hip too much bone too much conga too much cuatro to two step got too many piano keys in between her teeth, it got too much clave too much hand clap got too much salsa to sit still it be an anxious
child
wanting to make Play-Doh out of concrete English be too neat for her kind of wonderful.
In contrast, Spread the Net offers donors a concrete promise: for every 10 dollars donated, they provide one bed net to protect a
child
from malaria.
On the far left, a woman holding her dead
child
releases a scream; her eyes sliding down her face in the shape of tears and her head bending back unnaturally to echo her baby’s.
There is the statue of a soldier present below, but he is unable to defend the woman and
child.
And this TV that transmitted prayer to Beyoncé as a
child
became this monolithic revolving sculpture that broadcast Beyoncé to the back of the stadium.
And if a
child
inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function.
Some local governments in Japan have offered couples money to have babies, with the money increasing with each additional
child
being born.
The woman who as a
child
had skipped with him through fields and broken his heart.
Her husband had departed so quickly that she hadn’t been able to tell him she was pregnant with his
child.
And he makes this observation: that when you're a child, you see animals at twice the size as you do as an adult.
It's the moment when the skin barrier disappears between a mother and her child, it's the moment when a naturalist feels just free in nature.
In parallel with this, Seymour Papert got the governor of Maine to legislate one laptop per
child
in the year 2002.
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