【推荐2】Risky play gives children a feeling of thrill and excitement. Risk is an essential part of a balanced childhood. Exposure to healthy risks, particularly physical, enables children to experience fear, and learn the strengths and limitations of their own body.

For this generation of children, always from scheduled soft play, to school, to club, to sofa, we’ve got a lot of work to do. As parents, many of us are unused to allowing even the tiniest degree of danger to enter the lives of our children. Surely it’s the job of a good parent to keep them safe.

That’s why roaming-distance — how far children play from home — has decreased by 90% in the past 30 years. We are a nation of stubborn helicopter parents, managing a schedule of activities and waiting below our children on the monkey bars in case they should slip. It’s no wonder that the virtual risk of computer games is so appealing and addictive—the real world seems rather mild in comparison.

So how can we put some of that danger and excitement back into the lives of our children? The answer is step by step and in an age-appropriate way. First, the outdoors is key. Outdoors time every day is essential, and don’t just head to the neat and controlled environment of the play area. Permit your primary-age children to leave your sight. Risky sports are a reasonably controlled way to allow your children to feel fear. Horse riding or skiing might be expensive, but what about skateboarding, tree-climbing or rock-climbing? Your child could fall at some stage, and they will probably feel out of control — but wow, they’ll feel alive. Water, too, is an essential healthy risk. Let them climb in streams, slide in mud and fall over in the sea wearing all their clothes. Your job as an adult is to manage the risk.

【推荐3】Cooking games are a fantastic way to stimulate imaginative play.     1     It helps them develop their creativity, motor skills, language, and problem-solving ability. In this text you will find some information on how online cooking games may educate them.

Online cooking games promote maths and reading skills.

The act of cooking requires a lot of counting and measuring. Additionally, many free cooking games online require kids to read the recipes or lists of ingredients.     2    

Online Cooking games boost confidence and independence.

When kids take the initiative, finish a task, or follow directions correctly, they feel good about themselves and proud of what they’ve done.     3     In the game, kids can experiment with a chefs role and master their culinary skills in the world of imagination. When kids have trust in their own skills, they are more likely to grow up with a feeling of confidence, responsibility, and independence.

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Free online cooking games encourage kids to try new things and think outside the box by letting them experiment with ingredients, recipes, and preparation methods. Such games can help kids develop a growth mindset, creativity, and choosing freedom.

Online cooking games can improve social skills.

    5     For example, playing multiplayer or two-player games allows children to interact with others, help each other, laugh together, solve problems in cooperation, and so on. This is especially convenient for timid or introverted kids who have difficulty reaching out to others in the real world.

【推荐2】The nature vs. nurture (培养) debate has gained mixed reactions from scientists and psychologists through the years. Some believe that genetics has a more significant impact on your physical, emotional, and mental qualities, while others say that your upbringing has a great influence on your maturity (成熟) levels.

Emotional DNA falls to the side of the nature argument since the science involves understanding your inherited emotional responses. A study considers that your ancestors created a blueprint of decisions made during the events they encountered in their lives. This blueprint is then passed on to their descendants, and serves as pre-programmed responses when they face similar situations.

It’s been widely known that disorders like depression and anxiety have physical signs, and you also imitate the behavior of your parents as you grow up. However, emotional DNA goes deeper than that. The reason is that you inherit inborn traits (特征) that may prevent your psychological growth, especially if you aren’t aware of the unhelpful habits passed on to you by your ancestors.

As much as you may want to create objective decisions for your personal relationships or career, emotions have a significant influence in this process. Fortunately, you can rewire your emotional DNA through therapies and treatment programs.

Awareness is key to this aspect of your being since you should understand what causes your action or inaction. This way, you’ll be able to take full control of your future.

You tend to think that you can come to the point of full honesty and awareness of yourself. However, you’ll have emotional blind spots where you’re in denial that you have an issue with an aspect of your personality or you don’t feel that it’s a problem at all.

Sometimes, family and friends want to protect you from yourself by sugarcoating your unpleasant traits and habits. Seeking help from a psychologist or life coach can ensure that someone is willing to tell you the truth about your negative characteristics. Plus, they can teach you some techniques to deal with different emotions and situations.

【推荐3】A space instrument, designed to map the existence of dust in the atmosphere and help scientists know whether the dust in different parts of the world is likely to trap the heat from the sun or make it change direction, has also shown another vital function: detecting worldwide emission of methane(甲烷排放), which is a powerful greenhouse gas.

The instrument is called the imaging spectrometer(成像光谱仪). It has identified more than 50 methane “super-emitters” in areas including the Middle East and the southwestern United States. The newly measured methane hot spots include large oil and gas centers and places where rubbish is buried.

The observations came as scientists tested the ability of the instrument. Over its task, measurements of surface minerals in dry regions of Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Australia will be collected. The data will be useful for scientists to know if the dust has a warming or cooling effect on the planet. “We have been eager to see how our mineral data will improve climate modeling,” said Kate Calvin, a scientist and senior climate advisor. “This additional methane-detecting ability offers an opportunity to measure and monitor greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.”

From the space station, the instrument can study large areas many kilometers wide while also centering on small areas the size of a football field. “Some of the plumes(烟雾) the instrument detected are the largest among what we have ever seen—unlike anything that has ever been observed from space,” said Andrew Thorpe, a research technologist.

New images of methane super-emitters include a group of 12 plumes from oil and gas structures in Turkmenistan. Some plumes are more than 32 kilometers wide. Scientists calculate the plume areas all together give off methane nearly at a rate of 50,400 kilograms per hour. This is close to the top emission rate of the gas leak in Aliso Canyon near Los Angeles. That event was the largest accidental methane leak in American history.

【推荐1】For all its drawbacks, aging brings a benefit: social relationships generally improve. Older individuals have fewer but closer friendships, avoid conflicts, and are more optimistic compared with younger adults. Now, 20 years of data on chimpanzees suggest they, too, develop more meaningful friendships as they age.

“The finding challenges a long-standing assumption that humans mellow (成熟) with age because we are aware of our approaching death.” said Zarin Machanda, a professor at Tufts University. But finding the same pattern in chimps suggests a simpler explanation: It could be an evolved trait found in a wider range of species. Zarin and her colleagues gathered data from the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, which has tracked wild chimpanzee behavior in Uganda’s Kibale National Park since 1987. Because chimps are socially similar to humans — they live in large groups and engage in both cooperative and antagonistic (敌对的) relationships throughout their lives — they serve as an ideal test group for studying changes in social behavior. The researchers zeroed in on the males, who had more purely peer-to-peer relationships than females.

Combing through 21 years of behavioral logs on 21 chimps aged 15 through 58, the researchers found that older males (aged 35 and up) had more mutual friendships than younger ones. Older “friends” would sit together and groom one another on a regular basis, whereas younger chimps were more likely to engage in one-sided relationships, in which they groomed preferred elders who rarely returned the favor. As males age and fall in rank, they stop competing for dominance and “tend to give up”. Forming these cooperative relationships with peers could help older males maintain their status, helping them fend off challenges by younger and fitter chimps.

The team are eager to see whether other chimpanzee groups—and female chimpanzees—also experience this mellowing with age. Machanda says the theory could also be tested in other long-lived social species. Next, however, the team will take a deeper look at how social bonds might benefit aging chimps - and whether the same mechanisms could be at work in humans. “There is a lot more to learn,” Machanda says.