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		<title>Brainwave&#8217;s New Science DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the Early Years Count A child’s experiences in early life have a profound effect on the architecture of their brain and this helps to customise each child’s brain to deal with the environment they grow up in.  A new DVD, “Why the Early Years Count”,  from The Brainwave Trust.  The information is presented in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graeme MacCormick  &#8211; Radio Podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Graeme is a retired family court judge and former human rights commissioner, advisor and presenter for  Brainwave Trust Aotearoa.  This podcast from Radio NZ, Nine To Noon on Tuesday 15 November 2011, features Graeme speaking about Universal Child Monitoring. Kathryn Ryan speaks to Russell Wills, Children&#8217;s Commissioner; and Graeme MacCormick, retired family court judge and former [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/graeme-maccormick-radio-podcast/</link>
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		<title>Radio NZ Podcast re Child Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently Sue Wright, our Executive Director was one of a number of people interviewed by Andrew McRae for the Radio New Zealand Insight programme which aired on Sunday morning, 24th July  and again on Monday evening 25th July.  This Insight programme related to the Government&#8217;s release of the Green Paper on how society can better protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/radio-nz-podcast-re-child-protection/</link>
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		<title>Tots Toddlers and TV: The Potential Harm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Authors: Keryn O&#8217;Neill and Anthea Springford, June 2011 While TV viewing has been a common activity for several decades, the huge increase in TV and other media targeted at and watched by very young children has been described as &#8220;a large uncontrolled experiment on today&#8217;s infants and toddlers.&#8221; (Christakis &#38; Zimmerman, 2009).  The value of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infant Stress and Traumatic Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Nathan Mikaere-Wallis April 2011 An article written for professionals entitled: Resilience, Relationships and Routines: Responding to Trauma with Infants 0-3 years. Introduction Many believe that infants are immune and especially resilient to natural disasters and trauma because they are &#8220;too young to remember&#8221; so thereby not really affected. This couldn&#8217;t be more further from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/infant-stress-and-traumatic-events/</link>
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		<title>Managing Trauma with Infants 0-3 years in the wake of the Christchurch Earthquake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A Parent Summary of Advice from the Research Author: Nathan Mikaere-Wallis: Brainwave Trustee and Presenter. Introduction People often believe that infants are not affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes because they are ,,too young to remember&#8221; so thereby not really affected. This couldn&#8221;t be further from the truth. The supreme importance of the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/managing-trauma-with-infants-0-3-years-in-the-wake-of-the-christchurch-earthquake/</link>
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		<title>Love Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miriam McCaleb, a member of the Christchurch Brainwave team and an experienced Brainwave presenter wrote this article for Little Treasurers January 2011 issue.  Your child&#8217;s first two to three years will affect her whole life. But when it comes to creating that all-important loving bond, the pressures of modern life &#8211; to earn more money, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/love-connection/</link>
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		<title>Stress &#8211; the good the bad and the ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Keryn O&#8217;Neill, Brainwave Presenter and Research Manager. This article was written after the September earthquake in Christchurch and first published in our December 2010 newsletter.     If I had a dollar for every time I have heard about how resilient babies and young children are to the stresses in their lives, and those felt by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/stress-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/</link>
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		<title>Presentations at De La Salle College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schools Project In 2009 we completed a pilot Brainwave programme at De La Salle School in Auckland, delivered by Wendy Nelson to Year 7 &#38; 8 and Year 13 classes. The feedback was fantastic and more schools have continued to show an interest in making our information part of the curriculum.  Follow this link to the New Zealand Herald [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainwave.org.nz/presentations-at-de-la-salle-college/</link>
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		<title>Roots of Empathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roots of Empathy is a programme originally developed in Canada and first trialled there in 1996.   It is a classroom-based programme aimed at fostering empathy and reducing levels of bullying, aggression and violence amongst schoolchildren. It involves parents bringing babies into the classroom nine times over the course of a school year.  The programme allows students to observe [...]]]></description>
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