<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Socato</title>
	<atom:link href="http://socato.org/?feed=rss2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://socato.org</link>
	<description>commitment + integrity</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:50:58 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>UK &#8211; Creating the super-nanny state</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12128</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12128#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there is some incident of juvenile delinquency or youth crime you will hear the same refrain: &#8220;Well, I blame the parents.&#8221; And the evidence is that the parents are indeed likely to have played a significant part in the anti-social behaviour of their offspring. So should the state intervene in the upbringing of the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12128</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How Exercise Affects the Brain: Age and Genetics Play a Role</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12126</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12126#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth&#8217;s David Bucci thinks there is much more going on. &#8220;In the last several years there have been data suggesting that neurobiological changes are happening &#8212; [there are] very brain-specific mechanisms at work [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12126</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>US &#8211; The Economic Case for Early Education</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12124</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12124#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[US News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I co-hosted a legislative briefing on the importance of early childhood education with Arthur Rolnick of the University of Minnesota’s Human Capital Research Collaborative and a former economist at the Federal Reserve. Professor Rolnick’s research makes the economic case for early childhood education through new data and a comprehensive 40-year study. Professor Rolnick [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12124</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Children a gift that keeps giving</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12122</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12122#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does having children make you happy? Everyone assumed it did until the era of happiness research revealed parents to be a miserable lot. A slew of studies reached the same conclusion: if maximising happiness was your life&#8217;s aim, stay child-free. The most famous study, by the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a behavioural economist who [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12122</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Science of Spatial Learning</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12120</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12120#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody uses spatial skills daily, for example, in packing a suitcase or the trunk of a car. Moreover, it is one of the primary ways people get around, a trait humans share with other species, one that evolved long before civilization discovered GPS. “It’s true for any animal that has to move around in the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12120</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>UK &#8211; British PM says offering parenting classes is not symptom of &#8216;nanny state&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12118</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12118#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New parents in the UK are to be offered practical classes and advice videos to steer them through the first five years of their child&#8217;s life. The government wants to help them tackle everything from sleep issues and baby bathing to discipline and child development. It is going to cost millions but Prime Minister David [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12118</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>NSW &#8211; Parents bullying teachers</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12114</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12114#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TEACHERS are increasingly being bullied, yelled at, and in rarer cases, physically assaulted by some assertive parents who believe they have an &#8221;inalienable right to scream and demand things for their children,&#8221; the NSW Teachers Federation says. More than 80 per cent of 2500 teachers and school staff say they have been bullied by parents, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12114</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Jamaica &#8211; $60 Million set aside for Early Childhood Development Project</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12111</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12111#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some $60 million has been set aside in the national budget for the 2012/2013 fiscal year for initiatives to improve the quality of early childhood schools and care facilities, as well as to strengthen organisations and institutions delivering such services. These objectives will be met under the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development -funded Early [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12111</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Want A Less Fussy, Easier to Soothe, Kinder Child? Make Music!</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12108</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12108#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning to make music helps babies communicate better and amps up empathy in older kids. Want a happier, easier to calm infant and a more empathetic child? Three new studies suggest that teaching even the youngest children to make music with others can not only reduce distress and make infants smile and laugh more but [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12108</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Motherhood Increases Brain Size</title>
		<link>http://socato.org/?p=12106</link>
		<comments>http://socato.org/?p=12106#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socato.org/?p=12106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that giving birth causes your brain to actually grow larger? Research has shown that changes occur in a woman’s brain during childbirth and continue during motherhood. That’s important because the area of the brain that is growing helps in developing the skills it takes to be a good mother. Through these studies, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://socato.org/?feed=rss2&#038;p=12106</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

