As foul as it is, I'd argue that the main reason kids shouldn't see "John Carpenter's Vampires" is because it might stunt their emotional development.
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Crossbencher Lord Northbourne introduced an amendment to the bill outlining parents' responsibility to promote their children's "personal, social and emotional development" before they reach primary-school age.
Interacting with peers in classrooms still goes a long way toward ensuring a child's healthy social and emotional development, according to Ann Helmus, a Newton, Mass.
On the other end of the spectrum, another study reports that the children of older mothers have better language, social, and emotional development than those of younger mothers.
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New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain's "moral compass" to process and could harm young people's emotional development.
Leading economists agree that high-quality early learning programs can help level the playing field for children from lower-income families on vocabulary, social and emotional development, while helping students to stay on track and stay engaged in the early elementary grades.
The knock against tiger parenting style is that it does not foster emotional and social development.
In April Ms Dekker won a court case against Dutch social services, who had argued that the voyage could harm her emotional and social development.
These benefits include short-term gains in the emotional or cognitive development of the child, improvements in educational outcomes, reduced levels of criminal activity, and improvements in health-related indicators, such as child abuse.
Emotional connectivity and language development are two areas where most psychologists have expressed concern.
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By focusing on violence prevention, the development of emotional intelligence, and face-to-face human experiences, we can begin to create a real solution focused on the shooter instead of fixating on the smoking gun.
But I read to my kids because everyone tells me how good storytime is for their emotional, intellectual, and psychological development.
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For instance, the Department of Housing and Urban Development specifically allows an emotional support animal as long as the resident can prove a disability-related need for it.
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Whether they are texting, tweeting or e-mailing, the potentially negative effects that this activity may have on language development, social interaction and emotional bonding of their children have been raised by social psychologists in the past decade.
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Unfortunately, it gets lost amid endless and, at times, emotional explanations aimed to take down the idealistic that have saturated development with well-meaning, but ineffective, programs.
According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, infants born at 37 to 38 weeks face problems with brain development and function, including psychological, behavioral and emotional problems.
An emotional Vettel, who came through Red Bull's driver development programme and made his F1 debut in 2007, was overcome with emotion at the end of a campaign that had four men in title contention until the final day.
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Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs admitted that the debate had been "emotional" but that it was "not helpful" for MEPs to accuse the Commission of inaction.
Martin Cuff, an economic development specialist focusing on film, argues that the key is the emotional connection between audiences and what's on screen.
Curiously enough, this statement reflects word-by-word Chavez' emotional reaction to the US-Brazilian agreement last March for cooperation in the development of ethanol.
The Director-General also took part in a round table at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, addressing the psychological and emotional trauma of Syrian refugee children and UNESCO's response in addressing their needs through the development of specific tools for teacher training in post-conflict and post-disaster situations.
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