| Baby Talk for 7/22/07Moore
A girl, Talesha Kay'ree, 7 pounds, 6.8 ounces, was born at 8:32 p.m. July 1 at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center to Misty Skinner and Sherron Moore, Enid. Grandparents are Debbie and Henry Thomas, Enid; Jimmy Skinner, Agra; Marie Knox, Tulsa; and the late Tony Johnson. Talesha has two brothers, Shawn Marcus and Kas, and one sister, Logan.DickeyA boy, Dash Deonee, 9 pounds, 4 ounces, was born at 6:47 p.m. July 1 at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center to Jeena White and Anthony Dickey, Alva. Grandparents are Karleen White, Alva; J.L. White, Huntsville, Ala.; Fran Nourse, Desoto, Texas; and the late Donald Dickey.KelsoA boy, Kooper Lee Martin, 6 pounds, 5 ounces, was born at 7:46 a.m. July 3 at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center to Chad and Shannan Kelso, Pond Creek. Grandparents are Marty and Debra Kelso and Toni Lackey, all of Pond Creek.
Early childhood education: Avoiding expulsions
Trinity Day School in Tulsa praises the work of a little-known Oklahoma program for improving the behavior of children in its classrooms and strengthening the school's curriculum.
The Child Care Consultation program fits a recommendation made by a national panel last week as a way to reduce expulsions in early childhood programs.
Allison Geary, special projects coordinator for the nationally accredited Trinity Day School, said the school has used the consultants at least seven times in the last six months.
"It benefits our school as a whole," Geary said. "Parents can have more confi dence that we are not only relying on our own instincts and knowledge, which are good, but also on the body of scholarly research to follow best practices."
The program's goal is to keep children enrolled in centers when they might be in danger of being asked to leave.
Saccharine Making Us Fat? Aw, Rats!
There are a number of other flaws as well — enough to prevent drawing real conclusions from the results. What's more, these results contrast with other studies showing that rats do compensate for calories pretty well when there is no perceptible taste difference. I actually did one such study years ago as a lowly graduate student. I was all excited about being able to use aspartame (Nutrasweet) before it was released to consumers. We used normal-weight rats and rats that were fattened up with high-calorie, fatty, sugary food, to mimic how many people become overweight. Then we placed them on liquid diets — sweetened with sugar and sweetened with aspartame. The aspartame liquids contained either 20 percent or 40 percent fewer calories. When the rats got the liquid with 20 percent fewer calories, they just drank more of it and maintained their weight — whether they were overweight rats or normal weight rats.
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