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A New Strategy For Bullying: Teaching Resilience
The media is filled with news about bullying. The question is, does all of the attention help to decrease the bullying? Unfortunately, the answer is not clear.
The Gift Of Play
When my siblings and I were kids growing up in Washington DC in the 1970s, afterschool activities meant playing kickball or exploring Battery Kemble Park with a few dozen other elementary school children, unsupervised by adults. Christmas presents for the luckiest families meant toys, books and stuffed animals. We never saw a flash card or…
Helping Your Kids Develop Creativity & A Lifelong Love of Learning
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein There is something beautiful and magical about childhood that unfortunately we push aside in the interest of “growing up.”…
Start Daydreaming – It’s Good for You
Quote: Everything starts as somebodys daydream. Larry Niven Remember staring out the window at school, your daydream broken by the teacher calling your name? What were you thinking about? You might not have known, but the fact is, you were thinking. Not in the logical 1- 2- 3 kind of way, but in a deeper way that is an important part of our brains functioning, and is crucial to emotional and intellectual health …
When Snow Days Seem Like Evil Plots To Ruin Your Sanity…
Only a few weeks into 2014, East Coast moms have had a few too many snow days already. Isn’t it funny how snow days change based on your kids ages?My friends with children under 12 dread snow days and take them as personal affronts.Last Tuesday morning, with every school in Washington closed before a single snowflake fell, my phone and Facebook were burning up with messages from moms of young kids. Nooooooo …