My TEDx Talk: How to Keep Students Engaged in Learning with These Five Synergistic Practices
Let’s make the pandemic the catalyst to making education stronger than ever. Let’s keep students engaged and bring back the joy of learning! TEDx Wilmington in Delaware has invited me to give a TEDx Talk on April 27, 2024, on How to Keep Students Engaged in Learning with Five Synergistic Practices in the Classroom. How […]
Mindfulness for Kids: What is It? Why Do It? How to Start
Do you want to improve your child’s confidence and overall mental health? Studies show that practicing mindfulness for kids improves kids’ mental health and is teaching children resilience. So, what is mindfulness? The Oxford Dictionary says: Mindfulness is “a mental state achieved by concentrating on the present moment, while calmly accepting the feelings and thoughts […]
Last 3 Brain Boosting Games in the Series!
For the past five weeks, I’ve been posting brain boosting games to help families get through this difficult time of social distancing. These games are special in that they’re not only fun, they NURTURE BRAIN DEVELOPMENT, teach and/or sharpen skills in the Common Core, and can be easily adapted for ages 4 to 14 as […]
Week 1: 3 Games to Play at Home for Fun and Learning
In these days of social distancing to avoid the pandemic running around the planet, a lot of us have kids at home full time. Though most of us know too much screen time adversely affects kids’ brains, we may run out of alternatives to keep them busy, much less learning—especially if we’ve had to bring […]
Help Your Kids Develop the 2 Keys to Happiness According to Researchers Worldwide!
Would you like your children to grow up to be well-adjusted generally happy adults? Researchers have pinpointed two keys to human well-being—no matter how much money you make, education you have, or what culture you come from. And these keys are — drum-roll please — GENEROSITY and GRATITUDE. In fact, scientists can track what happens […]
5 Secrets to Help Kids Do Better in School that May Surprise You
People ask me things like “How do I motivate my kids to do better in school?” or “How Can I help my child get better grades?” or “How do you motivate a lazy child to study?” Below are 5 no-kidding, research and experience-based, surefire ways to boost kids’ brainpower and attitude toward learning for happier […]
5 Games that Build Kids’ Skills
I recently tuned into a webinar given by the National PTA. One of their presenters cited a survey given to parents that asked if they believed their children had learned the skills required in that grade by the end of the school year. 80 percent of parents marked the box that said, “Yes, my child […]
6 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy
Welcome to the Brain Stages EQ Series: How parents can help children understand and deal with emotions—both theirs and others’—for a happy life. In these days of easy access to information, how we manage our emotions and relate to people has become more important than ever. Some say that one’s emotional quotient (EQ) is more […]
4 Ways to Make Gift Giving Great in Your Family
I read a hilarious post a mom wrote about how her expectations of Christmas morning turned out wildly different than the reality. Her fantasy of sharing warm moments of love, appreciation, and togetherness with her family shattered into a self-absorbed, paper-flying frenzy that ended in palpable disappointment with a highly anticipated moment ending too soon.I […]
More “Names for 10” Games to Boost Math Skills
In the previous Names for 10 post, 7-year-old Eli showed you the secret for making math easier for kids (and adults) using a small (delicious) pile of M&Ms. 10 + 0, 9 + 1, 8 + 2, 7 + 3, 6 + 4, 5 + 5, 4 + 6, 3 + 7, 2 + 8, […]
