Try the Talk Test â it's one of the best ways to measure your workout's intensity, according to a new study. The Talk Test measures how easy or hard it is for you to hold a conversation while exercising to gauge how intense your workout really is (similar to the Rate of Perceived Exertion scale). To test its usefulness, researchers studied healthy adults by making them recite the Pledge of Allegiance while exercising at varying intensities.
at the school i send my children they dont learn to read and write until they are 7 and this works really well as by this age they are ready and eager to learn and while obiously there are still those that struuggle, the majority learn really fast. saying that both my two learned to write their names by about age 4 off their own backs. my dd1 took a while with her reading and writing,having slight dislexic tendancies. she is 10 now and has only just become confident in both. where as my ds ...
About 15%-25% of young children have some kind of communication disorder. Boys tend to develop language skills a little later than girls, but in general, kids may be labeled late-talking children if they speak less than 10 words by the age of 18 to 20 months, or fewer than 50 words by 21 to 30 months of age. Although your child should be speaking clearly by age 4, she may mispronounce as many as half of her basic sounds; this is not a cause for concern. 2  By age 5, your child should be able to retell a story in her own words and use more than five words in a sentence.