Singapore’s total fertility rate has fallen to a historic low of 0.97. Citizens aren’t having enough children to sustain population numbers and all the money spent to encourage procreation doesn’t seem to work. Steven Chia and Crispina Robert talk about what’s causing the decline with Dr Norman Li, psychology professor at the Singapore Management University, … Read more
According to the American Psychology Association, ’emotion regulation’ is an individual’s ability to modulate an emotion or a set of emotions. Babies and young children often display unregulated behavior or ‘melt-downs’ because they have not yet learnt to identify and name difficult emotions, let alone express them in a healthy way. Attention to cognitive and … Read more
“Aren’t you glad we’re going to the hotel now?” I asked my husband. He nodded. “We’ll use this opportunity to learn from the nurses.” We rode an elevator to the fifth floor and waited in a dark lobby. I felt as if I were at a zoo: on the other side of a glass wall, … Read more
One in 10 parents have never tried the ready-made food they serve their baby, research has found. A poll of 1,000 adults, with children aged 0 to 5, found 17 percent rarely taste-test their youngster’s purees, and nine percent will only do so if it’s a recipe that is new to their baby. The main … Read more
Bifidobacterium breve, or B breve for short, is a bacterial species that’s found in the human intestine. It’s especially relevant in early life, being one of the most abundant bacteria in the newborn gut. B breve is a species of the genus Bifidobacterium and is considered key in the development of a healthy gut. It … Read more
As It Happens6:24Great apes get a kick out of ‘playfully teasing’ each other, study finds What do you call it when a chimpanzee offers his buddy a delicious piece of fruit only to pull his hand away at the last second? Or when a bonobo repeatedly pokes, prods and pulls on the hair of an … Read more
The rate of preterm births in the United States is rising, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preterm births are those that occur before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed. Preterm births accounted for 8.67 percent of births in 2022, according to the report. The rate of preterm … Read more
Happy New Year, Mzansi, if this is your first day back at work, welcome to a 2024 leap year in South Africa. In its simplest explanation, a leap year occurs every four years and means there’s an extra day in the calendar, says NBC. TRENDING: Essential INFO regarding 2024 SASSA payment dates While we count … Read more
CALIFORNIA: Newborn newborns can hear beats in music, according to new research.The study, conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam and Hungary’s HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (TTK), showed that the ability to recognise a beat is not simply due to newborns’ statistical learning ability, but that beat perception is … Read more
