"There's no professional development for trans kids at colleges," said Shannon Sennott, a founder of Translate, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit group that holds workshops on trans awareness at women's colleges.
"But the Facebook platform is enabling a variety of different forms of social interaction that can have enormous consequences for the social, emotional, and cognitive development of kids".
Since women spend the bulk of the revenue in that industry, it makes sense for them to be at the forefront of product development for babies and kids.
Peter Purton Southall, Middlesex So, if schools were no longer to teach PE it would be disaster for kids' "development, confidence, social skills and general education" (Letters, 2 November).
"We know both neighborhoods and schools are really important contexts for kids' development.
First, despite the fact that -- as John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Baby, summarized in 2013: "Very little high quality research has been done in the area" -- there is some direct evidence that screen time is harmful for kids' development.
Of course kids need the proper facilities and equipment to play, but without the necessary trained mentorship and coaching sport for development provides, kids won't gain the full benefits that have been shown to put them on the path toward academic success.
