Black History Month sprung up initially as a week-long celebration in Black communities in February in the 1920s. For fifty years the celebration spread across the country until […]

If you are concerned about your kids staying up all night or spending their entire Christmas vacation playing Fortnite or focused on other screen-based activities, you are not alone. Spending […]

Have you ever seen a child totally immersed in her video game play? Try to get her attention and it seems like she’s in another world (she is). But ask […]

Pikmin 3 was a game for the Wii U that has now been upgraded and re-released for the Nintendo Switch.  It is a strategy game where the player […]

While our staff feels that some of the best information about executive functions can be found right here on the LearningWorksforKids.com site, we recognize that there are many other great […]

Executive functions are the skills that kids and adults need to manage themselves and get things done in their daily activities. They have become even more crucial during the […]

Toca Life World is a storytelling game without a written story! Players can create their own character, create more characters ranging in age from babies to elderly people and […]

Homeschooling and remote learning are on a collision course- or maybe they have already crashed into each other. Traditional homeschoolers report that they choose to homeschool because they feel that […]

Our team at LearningWorks for Kids recommends playing video games as a tool for practicing executive functions because they require problem-solving, flexible thinking, and sustained focus and effort. These executive […]

Video games are a great test of a player’s willingness to fail and then get back up again.  Losing health points, powers, and ultimately one’s life in a video game […]