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10 New Things Science Says About Being a Mom by Randy Rieland
10 New Things Science Says About Being a Mom by Randy Rieland
For all what we think we know about moms, here are some fresh conclusions researchers have drawn about them since last Mother’s Day.
Your Brain when mom is nearby
Look Ma, two hands: A study at the University of Illinois concluded that teenagers are safer drivers when their moms are with them. No surprise there. But that’s not all they found. The researchers determined that having Mom nearby actually affected activity in a teen’s brain. Twenty-five teen drivers were asked to complete a driving simulation test as quickly as possible. At each of the intersections, the driver had a choice of running a yellow light or stopping for it, which cost them three extra seconds of time. When they were by themselves, drivers ran the yellow light 55 percent of the time; when Mom was nearby, that dropped to 45 percent. Here’s the best part: When a driver was alone, scans showed his or her brain’s reward center became more active when they ran yellow lights. But when their mothers were next to them, the same thing happened in their brains when they stopped at lights.
Quality Time
Quality rules: For all those mothers who don’t think they spend enough time with their kids, cut yourself a break. Research published in the April issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family says the quantity of time parents spend with their children doesn’t make much of a difference in how they turn out, particularly during what would seem to be an mpressionable period between ages three and 11. The quantity of parent-child time matters a bit more with teenagers—more one-on-one time can help adolescents stay out of trouble. But overall, the researchers suggest that it’s all about the quality of that time spent together. What makes a big difference, they say, is how warm and affectionate mom is.
Listening to mom and talking to your newborn
Listen to your mother: It’s long been believed that a mother who talks to her baby before it’s born can help the child’s development. Now a study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston suggests that a mother’s heartbeat and the sound of her voice can actually help the baby’s brain grow. The scientists studied 40 babies born eight to 15 weeks premature—infants who spent most of their time alone in an incubator and not with their mothers. But, using tiny speakers in the incubators, they exposed half the babies to the sounds of their mothers’ voices and heartbeats for three hours every day. And, according to the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the babies who heard those mama sounds developed significantly larger auditory cortex, the hearing center of the brain.
Mother’s nurturing instincts
Mom hearing: Why is it that mothers always seem to be able to hear their babies cry before anyone else does? It appears to have to do with oxytocin, also known as the “cuddle hormone.” Scientists at New York University say that as oxytocin surges in a mother’s brain after childbirth, it actually changes the way auditory signals are processed and makes her brain more sensitive to the sound of her baby’s cries. Not only did the researchers find that to be the case with mother mice, but even when virgin mice were given oxytocin, they started to act like moms, responding to the cries of baby mice and even carrying them back to the nest.
Educated mothers
A matter of degrees: More highly educated women—those with a master’s degree or higher—are becoming moms than was the case 20 years ago. A new report from the Pew Research Center concludes that one out of five women between 40 and 44 years of age who have graduate degrees now choose to remain childless, compared to 30 percent of those women in 1994. Overall, childlessness among American women between 40 and 44, regardless of education, is at its lowest point in a decade. One big factor, according to the researchers, is that during the past 20 years, more women have risen into management positions and that has helped change attitudes about balancing work and family.
Open communication
Don’t be so bossy: Kids tend to have warmer feelings about mothers who respect their autonomy and don’t try to control them too much. So say researchers at the University of Missouri, who found, in a study of 2,000 moms and their children, that mothers who tightly controlled the activities of their children when they were toddlers often continued to behave that way when the child was in the 5th grade. When those kids became adolescents, they were less likely to want to engage with their moms. Said Jean Ipsa, one of the study’s authors, “We found that mothers who supported their children’s autonomy were regarded more positively by their children than mothers who were highly directive.”
Sexual behaviours and cues, your moral compass
It’s complicated: It may not seem fair to blame moms for sexual problems their sons have later in life, but a team of researchers in Prague went there. Based on a study of 960 Czech men, they concluded that men who had a bad relationship with their mothers when they were children were more likely to also report that as adults they suffered from erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems. The researchers did acknowledge that they didn’t find a direct cause and effect.
Babies acquire their mothers’ experiences
Thanks for sharing: Children start learning fear early in their lives, taking cues from the odor of their mothers. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Michigan and New York University reported on what they observed in mother and baby rats. The mothers had learned to fear the smell of peppermint, and they “taught” this fear to their babies through the alarm odor released when they sensed a peppermint smell. Explained neuroscientist Jacek Debiec, who led the research: “Before they can even make their own experiences, babies basically acquire their mothers’ experiences.”
Math skills
A little math with your dinner: Young kids whose mothers talk to them about math at home, particularly during meals, tend to develop better math skills. A study at the University of Michigan and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile found that when moms did more than teach counting to their kids—say, they talked about measurements in recipes or counted money with them—those children generally developed math skills at a younger age. The researchers suggested that those kind of interactions helped kids better understand math concepts, such as number comparisons.
Best Friend
Happy BFF Day!: How times have changed. Based on a national telephone survey of 1,000 Millennials done earlier this year by the Benenson Strategy Group, more than half of those young adults—55 percent—said they consider one of their parents to be their best friend. Usually, it was mom.
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Mayweather is the ‘Compubox Champ’ and Pacquiao is the Fighting Legend by H A Goodman
Mayweather is the ‘Compubox Champ’ and Pacquiao is the Fighting Legend by H A Goodman
Floyd Mayweather is undoubtedly one of the best boxers of his generation. He embodies the American work ethic and his competitive spirit is legendary. “Money” has earned every penny of his millions with hard work and dedication; nobody can take that away from him.
However, he’s also the “Compubox Champ.” When his fights are analyzed by a computer, the numerous times he runs from an opponent or clinches an opposing fighter (after experiencing a solid shot) is never part of the mathematical equation. To the contrary, his style is perfect for a computer, not a boxing fan, scoring the match. In the Mayweather era of boxing, quick jabs and perpetual movement away from the opponent is what earns a $100 million check.
“Money” Mayweather has perfected a formula, one that almost ensures that his athleticism and knack for clinching and evading will either tire out his opponent or garner enough points to win the bout. As a result, he’s consistently ahead in the Compubox score because his jab is counted while his evasion isn’t factored into the equation. In a world where statistics drive the salaries of players in every sport, Mayweather has honed his style seamlessly to the efficiency and raw numbers lauded by Compubox.
Gone are the days of Hagler and Hearns going toe to toe; today’s boxer wins by the punch count, regardless of the power of the punch or what takes place before or after the punch. The irony with this new era in boxing is that Compubox was never meant to score fights. As stated by its owner in Boxing News Online, the computer program was never meant to replace the judges:
CompuBox was never designed to score fights. The program was created to provide a barometer of a fighter’s activity. We’ve never said and we never will say that we’re the be-all and end-all when it comes to scoring fights, as there are more elements to take into consideration.
Yes, Mayweather is efficient and his defense is superb, but did he truly “beat” Pacquiao, or just rack up enough points to win a computer-scored boxing match? As the owner of Compubox states, “there are more elements to take into consideration” other than punch count or efficiency.
Manny Pacquiao, on the other hand, is a fighter. He fights. He doesn’t instinctively clinch or evade an opponent’s onslaught as if the ring were a velodrome. While he might have landed fewer shots, Pacquiao’s combinations kept Mayweather either on the ropes or running. He was the aggressor, while Mayweather was constantly weary of his potential for a knockout blow.
Even with a bad shoulder hampering his effectiveness, Shane Mosley and Evander Holyfield scored “The Fight of The Century” for Pacquiao. Holyfield said after the fight that he thought Pacquiao won. According to Mosley, “It was seven rounds out of (12) for Manny.” As for a recap of the boxing match, Evander Holyfield made the following assessment in a recent ABS-CBN News.com article titled “Holyfield: I thought Pacquiao won”:
“I thought Pacquiao was doing well. I don’t know how people scored the fight, I thought he was doing well,” said “The Real Deal” in an interview with ESPN.
From Holyfield’s perspective, the judges should have scored the bout in favor of the aggressor. And in the case of the “Fight of the Century” he thinks the aggressor is Pacquiao.
“The fact of the matter, you’re the more aggressive one, you hit him with the shots… Pacquiao seem to hit him (Mayweather) more times than he hit Pacquiao,” said the four-time heavyweight king.
He added that it takes two fighters to fight.
“You got one guy trying to catch the other guy, pretty much,” Holyfield said, referring to Pacquiao. “You have one guy moving [around].”
Echoing Holyfield’s sentiment, Shane Mosley said, “It looked to me that Manny was putting more punches, more combinations, and landing more and more aggressive, and (he) really wanted to make the fight.” Therefore, although the judges were unanimous, not all boxing legends or fight fans scored the fight for Mayweather.
Also, for those who think Mayweather dominated the fight, Mike Tyson seemed to think the match was even up until the last two rounds and tweeted, “These last two rounds will decide the winner.”
Sorry, but Holyfield, Mosely and Tyson all felt that the fight was either extremely close, or in the case of Mosley and Holyfield, that Pacquiao won the match. Clearly, these boxing legends favored the aggressive and attacking Pacquiao, while the announcers and judges seemed enamored with the cat and mouse game we now call boxing.
If every punch is met with a clinch and every flurry ends with a stroll around the ring, then is this still considered boxing?
True, I expected more form “The Fight of The Century” after spending $100. But after viewing the match, though, I knew instantly that one boxer came to fight. I also knew that another boxer showed up to implement the sporting version of a computer formula in the ring. If there’s any doubt as to what transpired on May 2, 2015, just read how many times the word “clinch” is found in SB Nation’s “Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight: Live round by round results blog”:
Manny backs him to the corner and might have landed a left before they clinch.
Three-punch combo from Manny, who tries to open up but gets clinched.
Manny rushes, landing with a right before getting clinched.
Pacquiao to the body, clinched.
Pacquiao rushes, clinched.
Counter right lands. Clinch from Floyd.
Clinch by Floyd.
Manny digs a left to the body. Clinch.
Straight left by Manny on the counter. Clinch.
Manny with a body shot as he’s clinched; the ref admonishes Mayweather for holding.
Flurry by Manny, clinched.
Manny rushes, clinched.
Manny goes to the body, gets clinched.
Manny with a pair of lefts as Floyd circles out. Clinch.
So, how does a boxer fight an opponent who continually clinches him after landing a shot? Does the true winner of a championship boxing match clinch this often during the fight? In addition, why doesn’t Compubox deduct points for clinching and constant evasion by one boxer from the more aggressive fighter?
Where’s the computer program that scores aggressiveness?
Like Evander Holyfield said, “it takes two fighters to fight.” Yes, Mayweather won. But how did he win? How did Pacquiao lose? Compubox stats aside, we know who the aggressor was and we know who was dodging whom.
If you saw this fight without the announcers, Compubox, or judges, how would you have scored it?
Finally, what better way to end any commentary on Mayweather vs. Pacquiao than a message from Cambodia’s Prime Minister. Prime Minister Hun Sen is quoted inSports Illustrated as making the following statement:
I send a message to American judges to provide an explanation for why Floyd won. Floyd was just running around — blocking and avoiding — while Pacquiao repeatedly threw more and more punches, punching him to lie against the ropes.
I believe Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks for a great many boxing fans with his sentiments of the fight.
Therefore, I want a rematch between Mayweather and Pacquiao. However, I want the rematch judged by Shane Mosley, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson, without Compubox and without announcers. I’d pay a lot more than $100 to see that kind of boxing match.
$500 house built in 5days and given to a homeless woman in California
$500 house built in 5days and given to a homeless woman in California
A generous man, Elvis Summers went to his local home improvement store and purchased $500 worth of materials for McGee’s temporary home (she has been homeless since 2004). In just five days, a small structure was assembled for McGee, where she has been living for the past three weeks now.
Text 408-854-1883 or email Connie (motherhealth@gmail.com ) for a modular and sustainable house which uses zero energy and made in Berkeley, also can be easily disassembled/assembled in less than 2 days.
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What would your mother want on Mother’s day
What would your mother want on Mother’s day
Spa,healthy supplements,chocolate and other special gifts from you.
My 80 yr old mother wants hugs, massage and her favorite supplement to relieve her of arthritis pain, zyflamend caps from Whole Foods. This turmeric and ginger caps remove anti inflammatory substances that produces pain due to inflammed tissues/joints, arthritis and other ailments.
Dear Mom,
You loved us, your six children unconditionally. You deserve a spa or massage. You endured so many challenges and trials to ensure that I finish college. Even now, you care for me when I am sick and juggling work and caring for my teens. You still cook chicken adobo, lumpia and pansit, now the favorites of my two teens.
I know you are worried all the time, for the families you left behind in the Philippines. But you cannot handle the heat and dust that you are more relaxed and healthy here in California.
I have Esther bring you your favorite tomato plant for in gardening you find calm and serenity. Know that we love you always.
Love, Connie