Beyond Games: Help Your Child Think Ahead
How hard should you try to bring a child back down to reality? Is it helicopter parenting to help your child think ahead? Isn’t living in your own little bubble […]
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Are Video Games Stifling My Child’s Creativity?
If you have a kid growing up in the 21st century, they are probably spending much of their time in front of some form of screen-based technology. Maybe too much […]
Can Creativity Be Learned?
Are creative kids born that way? Or do environment, family, education, and culture determine how creative they are? Can creativity be learned and unlearned? Many social critics are concerned that […]
Can Coding as a Foreign Language Work?
Teaching kids to code has become a primary focus of the American education system, more urgently addressed than the outcry over schools’ lack of free play time and complaints about […]
Video Games That Teach Social Emotional Learning
Kids learn a lot of things at school but they might be missing out on some of the most important things. School is a great place for teaching academic skills, […]
Should Schools Teach Social Emotional Learning Skills
The demands of a 21st century education are incredibly stressful for families and teachers alike. Teaching and assessing the Common Core State Standards — the consistent set of expectations for […]
Beyond Games: Study Methods That Improve Memory
“I studied for that test for hours and I still couldn’t remember anything!” Sound familiar? Unless you have good reason to believe otherwise, your child is most likely telling the […]
Executive Functions and School Skills: Following Directions
“Why don’t they listen?”
“How come they can’t follow directions?”
Parents at home and teachers in the classroom get frustrated when kids seem unable to listen or follow directions. But […]
