Our Favorite Parenting News Stories Of The Week

Helicopter parents, cancel that violin class! Studies show that overdoing it isn’t actually that beneficial, so it’s okay to relax a bit. (The Economist)

Could morning sickness actually be a good thing? A new study found that women who suffered from it had fewer miscarriages and gave birth to bigger, healthier babies. (The Wall Street Journal)

One dad wants to ban play dates, which raises the question: are play dates a necessity or are they just another way parents are over-scheduling their children? (TODAY)

A combat veteran muses on which is harder: war or raising children. He gives 5 interesting similarities between leadership and parenting. (Forbes)

A 6-year-old boy who was born without most of his right arm hugged his mom for the first time ever, thanks to his new 3D-printed arm! Watch the video! (The Huffington Post)

Making parenting a bit easier? There’s an app for that. (Pix11)

Is society’s constant obsession with parenting and parenting styles getting out of hand? (The Conversation)

Congrats to the beautiful actress Zoe Saldana–the “Avatar” star is reportedly is pregnant with her first child. (Fox 50)

Infuse your summer with some East End fun for the whole family! (Elizabeth Street)

Treating childhood seizures with medical marijuana? Maybe not as crazy an idea as it sounds–read on to see how some parents are fighting to expand the drug’s legal use for kids. (Mashable)

The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center

The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center offers year-round, community-based dance and music programming in a fully inclusive and nurturing environment, located in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District. The School&rsquo;s diverse and professional faculty provides progressive and non-competitive instruction with all of our classes accompanied by live music. Though we are a non-recital school, there are opportunities for students to perform and for parents to see their dancers in action.

The Language Workshop For Children

After offering both group and private lessons for many years and analyzing the results over&nbsp;time, The&nbsp;Language Workshop for&nbsp;Children, founded&nbsp;in1973, has decided&nbsp;to emphasize private remote lessons at shorter intervals.&nbsp;Our skilled educators&nbsp;will&nbsp;focus their attention exclusively on the&nbsp;unique needs, learning style, and interests of your child.&nbsp;This allows a&nbsp;bond&nbsp;to develop&nbsp;between teacher and student, which&nbsp;has been&nbsp;shown to&nbsp;drastically improve retention.&nbsp; OUR METHOD&nbsp; Developed by the pioneers of language education for children, our programs bring decades of&nbsp;experience to your living room with individualized, active language classes. Each lesson is based on proven methods and materials perfected to capture your&nbsp;child&rsquo;s attention during the ages when he/she absorbs information the fastest. &nbsp;&nbsp; While other online language classes rely on videos for passive learning, we deliver interactive, and engaging lessons with native-fluent teachers. In addition, all our teachers are certified in the Thibaut&nbsp;Technique which has been featured&nbsp;in the New York&nbsp;Times, the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal, and many other well-respected&nbsp;publications.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our short one-on-one lessons give kids the chance to focus, hear pronunciation clearly, and practice speaking in their target language.  THE PROCESS&nbsp; First, students have a short meeting with our Director&nbsp;Francois&nbsp;Thibaut, in&nbsp;English, with&nbsp;their parent(s)&nbsp;present.&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut&nbsp;will determine&nbsp;the best course of study, including&nbsp;class length and&nbsp;frequency, the&nbsp;right&nbsp;teacher, lesson&nbsp;format and materials (or action games for younger students.) Then the learning&nbsp;begins!&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut will continually check in on your child&rsquo;s learning to assure they are getting the most&nbsp;of&nbsp;their&nbsp;classes.&nbsp; OTHER OFFERINGS&nbsp; We can also help your child prepare for: the French subject tests for SAT, AP &amp; CLEP, the European DELF/DALF, the Canadian TEF and other standardized testing, college entry exams, studying or traveling abroad,&nbsp;cultural changes when moving abroad,&nbsp;and much more!&nbsp; &nbsp;