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Education

Another Perspective on Video Games

March 16, 2011

A friend recently shared the following excerpt from “Everything Bad Is Good For You” by Steven Johnson. It is a spoof on articles decrying video games, based on a fantasy that video games came before reading. “Reading books chronically under stimulates the senses. Unlike the longstanding tradition of game playing – which engages the child [...]

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Does Academic Pressure in Kindergarten Make a Difference?

October 22, 2010

Excellent research-based article in the Harvard Review about the value of academics in Kindergarten. What works is supporting children in play and their natural development. We can trust children. All the academic efforts in the early years do not help children become more capable or to be more advanced academically than children who followed their [...]

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School is a High-Pressure Activity for Children

September 16, 2010

Children are natural learners as witnessed by their amazing ability to learn to walk, talk, reason, figure things out, imagine new realities – all by the age of 3 and without the benefit of a ‘credentialed teacher.’ Children are naturally curious and are hard-wired to learn and to want to learn. Yet research shows that [...]

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Are You Telling Your Child Too Much?

June 28, 2010

A mompreneur client of mine once shared with me this story about her 7-year-old daughter. She had just finished telling her daughter some info that she thought was important. She was trying to ‘teach’ her child an important idea to help her in life. After she was finished, her daughter calmly looked at her and [...]

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Preparing Our Children for the World of Tomorrow

January 2, 2010

Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration Program at Iowa State University, co-created the amazingly popular video Did You Know?, which asks the question – How do we best prepare our children for the rapidly changing and expanding world of tomorrow? In this future world of rapidly evolving technological development [...]

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What Happened to Their Humanity? Part 1

December 11, 2009

This is a question on everyone’s minds in Richmond, CA, where a group of approximately12 teens watched while several young men gang raped and beat a 15-year-old girl. This is truly a horrific story, shocking and disturbing to everyone that young men would violently injure and abuse this young girl. The haunting question on everyone’s [...]

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