FYI: Parents who express negative emotions toward their infants, or who handle them roughly results in aggressive, defiant kindergarteners...

"These researchers discovered that children who exhibit aggressive, defiant and explosive behavior by the time they're in kindergarten very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early in life. Prior to this study it was felt that the combination of difficult infant temperament and negative parenting placed parent-child pairs at most risk for conflict in the toddler period.

Study researcher Michael Lorber, of New York University, has said in a statement. "However, our findings suggest that it was negative parenting in early infancy that mattered most." This research has found that a cycle often begins wherein negative parenting in the infant's first few months of life results in highly angry toddlers, therefore setting off more hostility from mothers. And so parents should be counseled to work hard on developing warm relations with their kids from early in life."
Negative parenting sets off aggressive personalities in kids - Syracuse natural health | Examiner.com:
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Tip: Exchange candy w/ toys or other creative ways not to let Halloween make you forget the healthy eating habits you want your children to have

"Nutritional consultant and educator Kay Curtis is against handing out candy. Curtis opts for giving small toys such as rings, puzzles, bracelets and stamps.

“When I first started this 'no candy on Halloween' thing, my husband said our house would get egged or toilet-papered, but the kids were thrilled!” Curtis said.

Curtis shops for toys at the 99 Cent Store, Target and party stores. Party favors make great finds for trick-or-treaters, she said.

Lisa Keating, known as “Encino Mom” of EncinoMom.Com, kicks off Halloween with a nutritious meal before making the neighborhood rounds for treats. She also gives out small toys or party favors to trick-or-treaters."
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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Vast amounts of natural gas have been found deep under Israel’s Mediterranean waters

Israel’s swing of fate is just one of many big energy surprises developing as a new generation of unconventional fossil fuels take hold. From the high Arctic waters north of Norway to a shale field in Argentine Patagonia, from the oil sands of western Canada to deepwater oil prospects off the shores of Angola, giant new oil and gas fields are being mined, steamed and drilled with new technologies. Some of the reserves have been known to exist for decades but were inaccessible either economically or technologically.

Put together, these fuels should bring hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable reserves to market in coming decades and shift geopolitical and economic calculations around the world. The new drilling boom is expected to diversify global sources away from the Middle East, just as the growth in consumption of fuels shifts from the United States and Europe to China, India and the rest of the developing world."
New Technologies Redraw the World’s Energy Picture - NYTimes.com: "
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Climate change and population growth in the United States will make having enough fresh water more challenging in the coming years

In 1985-1986 there were historical (water level) highs and now in less than 25 years we are at historical lows. Those sorts of swings are very scary," said Robert Glennon, speaking at the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Glennon, a professor at Arizona State University and the author of "Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It," said that that according to climate experts, shorter, warmer winters mean less ice and greater exposure to the air, leading eventually to more water evaporation.

"We think about water like the air -- infinite and inexhaustible but it is very finite and very exhaustible," Glennon said.

"When you have a shorter ice season you have great exposure to the air and more evaporation. As temperatures go up it is very troubling," Glennon said. "The cycles are going to become more acute which is very troubling.""
Climate change making country's water problems worse: expert | Reuters: ""
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Tip:"Parent's emotional state affects child's emotional health. It's important to tell your pediatrician how you feel, though you're not the patient"

Tips on taking your child to the doctor: "Your pediatrician is interested in hearing anything relative to your child's development, particularly daily habits that a doctor can't observe. How and what does your child eat? How active is your child? How much sleep does your child need? Does your child seem generally happy? What does your child say or how does he/she communicate? Does the child play or interact well with other children? Have there been unusual stresses at home, such as a move, job loss, illness or death of a family member? It's important that your pediatrician not only assess your child's physical health, but emotional health as well because children's emotions can greatly impact physical health, activity and behavior.

Why did our pediatrician ask me how I feel?
Adults also can be subject to depression, and moms specifically to postpartum depression. An adult's emotional state affects a child's emotional health. If parents are dealing with major stressors, the child also may feel stressed physically and emotionally. So it's important to tell your pediatrician how you feel even though you are not the patient. Your pediatrician will be able to refer you to someone who can help you." (click link above to read full article)

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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Alternative Energy: Wind & Solar will coexist & work in tandem... because neither source can be controlled by man"

We can use solar energy when it comes,” Dr. Erk Thorsten Heyen, vice president, marketing, sales and finance of Wacker Polysilicon Division of Wacker Chemie AG Read more: Cleveland Daily Banner - Wacker VP Renewable energy is the future . “Typically, the wind is stronger when there is no sun.” But, he said, to move to a point where 60 percent of all energy is from renewable sources, it will be necessary to generate electricity with wind and solar systems when it is available and store it in batteries or hydroelectric plants. Water can be pumped to a higher level during the day and released at night. “You can use the energy from solar cells to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen and use the oxygen to make power or heat,” he said.

“There are many, many different technologies which could be used to store the excess electricity generated when the sun is shining or when the wind is blowing and use it when those conditions don’t exist. All of those technologies are available, but some of them are still a bit too expensive.” But, bringing those costs down will require government policy or utilities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority to move in that direction. "
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Update: Researchers from University of California, Berkeley confirmed reports that global temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius

Massive Study Proves Climate Change is No Hoax - Technorati Green: "The team included a 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Saul Perlmutter and various climatologists and statisticians. Compiling a huge open database of temperature records, researchers found a striking correlation with earlier American and British studies and the data clearly supports the conclusions that warming is occurring.

This study is the most comprehensive and thorough to date and focused on some nagging questions about the debate.
According to this statement:

" The most important indicator of global warming, by far, is the land and sea surface temperature record. This has been criticized in several ways, including the choice of stations and the methods for correcting systematic errors. The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study sets out to to do a new analysis of the surface temperature record in a rigorous manner that addresses this criticism. We are using over 39,000 unique stations, which is more than five times the 7,280 stations found in the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly data set (GHCN-M) that has served as the focus of many climate studies.""

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