Parents who help their children with homework may actually be bringing down their school grades. Other forms of parental involvement, including volunteering at school and observing a child's class, also fail to help, according to the most recent study on the topiC.
The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting where schools expect them to act as partners in their children's education. Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.
Kaith Robinson, the author of the study, said, "I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to decrease in their academic (学校的) performance. One of the things that was consistently negative (负面的) was parents' help with homework." Robinson suggested that may be because parents themselves struggle to understand the task." They may either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learnt it themselves, but they're still offering advice."
Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks. In general, about 20% of parental involvement was positive, about 45% negative.
Common sense suggests it was a good thing for parents to get involved because "children with good academic success do have involved parents ", admitted Robinson. But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success. " A big surprise was that Asian-American parents whose kids are doing so well in school hardly involved. They took a more reasonable approach, conveying to their children how success at school could improve their lives."
A 27-year-old inventor, Joco Paulo Lammoglia, has come up with a new device ( 设 备 ) named the AIRE mask, which is capable of transforming the wind energy provided by the wearer's breath into electrical energy. This means breathing has become a source of renewable energy. The inspiration for the invention came from his watching children blowing on pinwheels (纸风车).
The device is worn like a mask equipped with tiny wind turbines (涡轮) and it can work its magic even while people are sleeping, running or hanging around, since energy is created from one's breath. The principle of this AIRE mask is simple. The invention uses the wind flow created by breathing and changes it into energy that can charge mobile phones and iPods. Simply put this mask connected to your mobile phone on your face. The rest takes place naturally through your breath that provides power to run turbines which produce electricity.
Lammoglia explained how useful he hopes the AIRE will become. He said, "I hope to bring the concept into production and reduce the carbon footprint. It can be used indoors or outdoors, while you're sleeping, walking, running or even reading books." Apart from saving energy and contributing to environmental protection, it also encourages the practice of physical exercise. This is an entirely all time renewable energy source. Its energy is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lammoglia explained why he thought the AIRE was so useful, saying, "Though many of our modern devices offer benefits, they tend to consume a high amount of electrical energy. This may cause problems for the environment, especially if the energy used by these devices is produced by non-renewable sources.
The AIRE mask will be future's cheaper source of charging mobile phones. It would save energy and allow people to never have to worry about their phone dying unless they stop breathing.
A great life doesn't happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating ( 分 配 ) your time, energy and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure.
Make the following secrets fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today! A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often misunderstand what simplify means.
Instead, it's a way to free up your energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it first.
A great life is the result of removing distractions(分心之事). Up to 75% of your mental energy can be used in things that are not important but distracting you. Look around at someone's life you admire. What do they do that you would like to adopt in your own life? Ask them how they did it.
A great life is the result of your adjustments. It may mean thinking about again how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a different way. It may mean looking for new ways to spend your energy that agree with your particular definition of a great life.
There's the old saying everyone's familiar with "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". In order to even move from the couch to the refrigerator, you have to start. There's no better time to start than today. It's what you do TODAY that will make a difference in your life tomorrow.
A. A great life is the result of starting.
B. Start setting up your life to support success and ease.
C. A great life is the result of having intention.
D.So it requires that you should make some changes.
E.It's not a way to remove work from your life.
F.It's easy to spend your days on whatever gets your attention.
G.Then you will find ways to free up your mental energy for more important things.
A woman, who had spent the afternoon at Tom's bar, couldn't find her wallet. She didn't care about her ID, credit card or cash but her wedding1.
Tom didn't like the idea that a(n)2 could have occurred at his place. So he spent hours on cameras, 3 the woman's every step in the bar 4 she went to sit on a bench outside and left. Soon, a young man 5 the bench, put something into his pocket, and walked off. Tom 6 a photo online, hoping someone could know him.
Within hours. Tom got a text from 17-year-old Danny who7 having taken the wallet because he hadn't eaten in two days. He thought the ring was 8, so he took the money and 9 the wallet off the public docks(码头) into the ocean. Danny wasn't 10 with his family and had been living in the 11 for a week. Tom, a father of two, saw the boy for what he was: more of a kid than a criminal,12 to help him.
Tom called in two divers to13 the wallet. An hour passed, but there was no14 of the ring at all.
Tom grew15. Each passing minute increased the16 that Danny would be arrested(逮捕).
Then a diver popped up. In his hand was the17, and inside was the ring. Tom called the wallet's owner. She immediately dropped the18 against Danny for stealing the ring.
But it wasn't19 for Tom. He'd been troubled about Danny sleeping in the cold woods. With his home big enough to give Danny a place to live for a while, Tom told the teen he could 20 with his family until the boy got on his feet again.
As prices and building costs keep rising, the "do-it-yourself" (DIY) trend in the U.S. (continue) to grow. "We needed furniture for our living room," says John Ross, "and we just find it hard (pay) for what we need. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs." John got married six (month) ago, and in common with many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. (take) a 2-week course for $280 at a night school, now the Rosses build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well in a shoe making factory. Last month, he (receive) a car repair bill for $420. "I was (deep) upset about it that my car repairs cost too much. So I decided to be do-it-yourselfer ".
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you are interested in "do-it-yourself", you can go to DIY classes. And for those don't have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
