Driving behavior influenced by family, friends: A new study confirms that family and friends influence whether a driver speeds. Judy Fleiter, from the Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Accident Research and Road Safety Centre, looked at the driving habits of more than 300 people in south-east Queensland aged 16-79. She says there is a distinct "social influence" on how people drive. The study results are showing us are that people can also be influenced to not speed. So it goes both ways in relation to that driving behavior and that seems particularly relevant. While friends were more important in the results of the study, family members were also a significant influence.

Kids keep online threats secret from parents Schoolchildren are being "victimized, teased and mocked" on an internet "spider web" of instant messaging and blogging kept secret from parents, including instances of students exchanging insults, threats and explicit pictures via a network of home computers. Police say they have investigated and, in some cases, charged children for such cyber-bullying crimes as stalking, harassment and menacing other students, as well as child pornography. The reputations of children who make a mistake can be trashed. Kids can be victimized, teased and mocked for their boy or girl friends. Criminal offences relating to the behavior of school children online have definitely been reported to police and they have been investigated," he said.

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After nearly a decade of research, Dunstan Baby has found that all newborns use specific 'words' to express basic needs, such as hunger, gas or tiredness. About Priscilla Dunstan This is a remarkable story of an Australian woman who used her unique gift and a mother's intuition to develop a world first the universal language of babies. Born with an eidetic memory - similar to a photographic memory - Priscilla demonstrated an extraordinary connection to sound and its patterns. Initially, Priscilla's talent allowed her to spend years touring as an accomplished concert violinist. Later, she studied the world of opera and further developed her appreciation of sound as produced by the human voice. It was when Priscilla gave birth to her son Tomas, that the true significance of her gift emerged. She was able to recognize patterns in her son's cries and identify the specific needs associated with them. After more than eight years of research and independent testing, this one mother's intuition has developed into the realization of a universal baby language the Dunstan Baby Language. http://www.dunstanbaby.com/

Anxiety grows around teen net use  A real and dramatic difference is emerging in how teenagers handle personal relationships compared to adults in their late 20s, transforming the social lives of teens and often bewildering their elders.
For the younger crowd, online time is steadily supplanting personal contact with friends. A recent Nielson/NetRatings study documented a 24 percent rise in Web use in 2005 to an average 26 hours each month. For many, the Web is a way to reach out and bond with people with diverse backgrounds from innumerable places with minimal effort. The ease with which teens now access their social communities is striking. Instant messaging has replaced the telephone as the preferred mode to reach out to friends, as it allows instant access on the cheap. Parents can't fret over astronomical phone bills or minutes used, and as a result they are largely kept in the dark regarding a significant portion of their child's social life.