Making Video Games into Learning during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Are your kids at home playing (or begging you to let them play) video games all day long? I have a word of advice: say “Yes!” – not to day-long […]
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Can I Quarantine the Screens?
Rules and expectations for healthy screen time need to be adjusted during a pandemic. These times are unprecedented, and it is unreasonable to think that all parenting guidelines that have […]
Five Ways to Stop Your Kids’ Screen Time
Many parents and some kids have finally had it with screen time during the quarantine and want to put an end to all screen time. So, I’ve come up with […]
Three Steps for Improving Executive Functions for Homeschoolers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Homeschooling is the newest challenge parents are facing with their digital kids. The coronavirus pandemic has made the United States into a nation of homeschoolers. Most of these kids are […]
Three Tips for Getting Your Kids to Learn: Detect, Reflect, and Connect
How do people learn? Psychologists have been grappling with this question for the past century. Fifty years ago the prevailing psychological theory of learning came from the behaviorist camp associated […]
Three Activities for Homeschoolers to Improve Executive Functions
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, I had noticed that an increasing number of my patients are being homeschooled. In the southern part of Rhode Island where I live, the majority […]
Making Screen Time into Learning Time with Outschool and LW4K Live!
Screen time, computer games, and online classes have been touted for their great potential for learning. Until the coronavirus pandemic, most educators preferred tried and true classrooms, even in the […]
Five Tips to Homeschool Your Child with Video Games and YouTube
I think kids should go to school 12 months a year. Of course, this does not mean that kids should spend 12 months in a classroom, but rather they should […]
Mini-Guide: Stop, Breathe, & Think Kids
Stop, Breathe, & Think Kids is a meditation app for children. When the app opens up, the child evaluates themselves using emoji. Each emoji has a sub-set of emotions to […]
Word Domination
Word Domination is a close cousin to games like Scrabble or Words With Friends. The player gets letter tiles, each with a different point value. They use them to build […]
