Smoothen Away Those Crows Feet From Your Face

Smoothen Away Those Crows Feet From Your Face
As we age, fine lines and wrinkles make an appearance and change the way we look and feel. These are intrinsic changes and you cannot really do much to change the way your skin behaves. However, there are a lot of external factors too that affect your skin. Both, men as well as women can develop fine lines around the eyes. Over a period of time, these lines just get deeper and more prominent. These are called crows feet.
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How Children With And Without Autism Copy Actions Differently

How Children With And Without Autism Copy Actions Differently

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Senior Writer
Published: 04/08/2013 12:27 PM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily

When imitating the behavior of an adult, children with the developmental disorder autism tend to skip "silly," unnecessary actions, while those without autism tend to copy everything they see, silly or not, a new study suggests.

The study involved 31 children with an autism spectrum disorder, and 30 typically developing kids without autism. All the children were asked to watch as an adult showed how to remove a toy (a rubber duck) from a closed Tupperware container. Some of the steps performed were necessary, such as unclipping the lid of the box and taking the lid off, while some were unnecessary, such as tapping the lid twice. The children were then given the container, and asked to get the toy out as fast as they could.

Kids without autism were much more likely to copy the unnecessary steps, even though the children were not specifically instructed to copy everything the adult did. About 43 to 57 percent of kids without autism copied the unnecessary steps, compared with 22 percent of kids with autism.

"The data suggest that children with autism do things efficiently rather than socially, whereas typical children do things socially rather than efficiently," study researcher Antonia Hamilton of the University of Nottingham in England, said in a statement. "Autistic children only do the actions they really need to do."

Typically developing children may copy the unnecessary steps because they have a strong desire to fit in or be like other people, the researchers said, and this social motivation may be reduced in children with autism.  Previous studies have suggested that children with autism imitate adult behaviors less frequently than typically developing children. A 2010 study found that kids with autism are less likely to experience contagious yawning (or yawning when you see someone else yawn).

The researchers now want to study more precisely what kinds of actions kids copy, Hamilton said. Kids with autism may be more inclined to copy behaviors when they are dealing with objects they've never seen before (as opposed to familiar objects), because they may be copying actions to learn rather than copying to fit in, the researchers said.

The new study is published today (April 8) in the journal Current Biology.

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WATCH: Kids Get Inspired To Unplug For One Full Week

WATCH: Kids Get Inspired To Unplug For One Full Week

"I spent my entire childhood unplugged," children's book author Dan Yaccarino says in this video from Random House Children's Books. "What I really enjoyed doing was building things, drawing, writing."

Yaccarino has written an adorable picture book called Doug Unplugged about a robot who is tired of downloading information day after day, and goes off on an adventure to explore the world around him. Despite being a self-described technology nerd, the message is one Yaccarino believes in. "Using their imaginations, kids can create far more interesting worlds than anything they encounter in a video game," he says.

To spread Doug's message far and wide, the author has teamed up with Random House and fellow authors and illustrators, Chris Raschka (Everyone Can Learn To Ride A Bicycle), Bob Staake (Bluebird), and Tad Hills (Rocket Writes A Story), to encourage kids to follow the little robot's example and unplug for National Screen Free Week (April 29th-May 5th).

The event is sponsored by the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, an organization dedicated to exploring kids relationship with technology and helping parents make sure that it isn't the biggest part of their childhood.

To kick off their 12-city tour, the four storytellers visited Teunis G. Bergen Elementary in Brooklyn, New York. Their goal was to create art, beautify the school and talk with the students about what they can do to during Screen-Free Week. As you can see in the video above, which HuffPost Parents is proud to debut today, the team was a hit with the kids of P.S. 9. One little girl said that it was good to unplug, because you can sometimes get stuck to the screen. And a young boy named Vincent even made up a freestyle rap for the occasion. "We're not watching TV, playing video games on our man. That's wack, that's lame."

Share these activities with your friends and family, not just this week, but all year round, because as Bob Staake says, “when you unplug it is amazing what you will find in the world that will inspire you.”

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