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This week we had the Grammy awards, which allowed the music world to recognize their own in spectacular and splendid fashion. In the blogging world—from time to time—we have our own ways of recognizing those that stand out. And wouldn’t cha know, Kalley over at Blogging While Nursing has given Five Things at Once the LOL Award.
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A new study by Canadian researchers shows spanking children can do more harm than previously thought, including causing “long-term developmental damage and may even lower a child’s IQ.” Currently banned in 32 countries, physical punishment is still an accepted practice in large parts of the world. The researchers behind this study hope parents can take the discipline discussion out of an ethical realm and begin to look at the issue from a medical point of view.
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You might have read about the Hot Sauce Mom, who got into trouble last year for her unusual punishment of making her son hold hot sauce in his mouth for lying to her. It was kind of a modern “I’ll wash your mouth out with soap” kind of thing. But although the soap-in-the-mouth threat (and sometimes follow-through) was tolerated by many back in the day, this new hot sauce punishment trend is not feeling the love, so to speak. In the midst of all the controversy, there is now an elementary school teacher trying to get into the act.
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It’s Friday! That means it’s time for another episode of All The [NERD] Rage, a lightning-round style review of the top nerd stories of the week. These are stories the Muggles may have missed. It’s time to catch up, so we’d better get started.
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Yeah! Kat from Keeping Sane nominated me for the Liebster Blog Award, so I get to have one of those fancy bloggie badges on my page. Now I look all official and stuff. But seriously, thanks to Kat for thinking of Five Things At Once, and I suppose thus there is some bookkeeping to do.
The Liebster Blog Award is all about giving recognition to worthy blogs and raising their visibility. In theory, it is meant to bring attention to blogs with less than 200 followers. As Kat wrote, ” In German—“liebster” means “dear,” from the verb “lieber” [to love]. A Liebster Foundation? I have no clue, but it’s a great idea.”
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