Back in time (like the 1980′s) someone was trying to figure out how to make gifted kids smarter. At the time – the beginning of the personal computer – we mostly just filled gifted kids up with more information and hoped they would retrieve it for us when we needed it. Many of them had one [...]
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At some level we are all agents of our own demise. We cause a little bit of our own death in every action, and maybe most of our thoughts. Fortunately, the reverse is also true. We are agents of our own success. Without a well-developed prefrontal cortex it’s hard to grasp that your life is what you [...] Some time ago I asked for feedback on what I might write that you might want to read. One answer is that you want to read about brains in 400 words. Or something like that. So, here’s what I know today. If you put a person, especially a young person on a Balance Board, you can tell [...] One of you, dear faithful readers either cares/ has an opinion/ has time/ other, to tell me what to do. Astounding really. Considering how often I exercise my “right” (ability to get away with) to tell people what to do, I figured many of you would jump all over the chance. The one respondent said, “Stop writing [...] We learned not to buy doodads from Robert Kiyosaki. He’s the Richdad, Poordad guy. Not only have we read the books (or at least some of them), we have also played Cashflow, the boardgame. I highly recommend both. Especially, if you have teenagers or young adults leaving the nest. There are some money concepts that will help them [...] One thing at a time Anterior Insula from Grays Anatomy Apparently, if you meditate you have a thicker anterior insula. Maybe meditating makes it so, maybe those with a well-used insula like to meditate? With this nice thick insula one’s body perceptions and mind perceptions are heightened and coordinated. Makes sex great. What I surmise is multi-tasking, which is [...] Reading follows a similar development as oral language development. If you haven’t read Part I (please do!) “No Reading Until You Are 7 years Old!” 1. Louise Bates Ames, PhD (look her up, Marsha Lucas calls her a “superstar in child development” and I would agree) says, “a delay in reading instruction would be a [...] - the 4 Reasons Early Reading Hurts Your Child’s Chance of Success (Part I) You think I’m joking, don’t you? I know, I’ve cried wolf before, but this is serious and real. I have a rant about Early French Immersion and the potential to interfere with deep language acquisition and facility and now neuroscience is showing that [...] Neuroscientist, Dr. Jeffery Schwartz says that coaching (the business kind, not kids’ little league – although, maybe that, too) is “a way of facilitating self-directed neuroplasticity.” Jeffery Schwartz is a seriously famous neuroscientist and made this comment at the May 2007 meeting of the NeuroLeadership Summit (see the link in the right sidebar.) I like this [...] Imagination Makes It Happen Children are often credited with more imagination than adults, but it isn’t true. Imagination matures and becomes more sophisticated as children play, plan, problem-solve, and create – skills which adults bring to work, recreation, and the most meaningful moments of our lives. Educational theory, led by the work of Kieran Egan, considers imagination [...] At the end of the last post – the one written in collaboration with Dr. Mark Brady – I suggested that a frolicking, giggling, good old time was possible with your 3-year-old. How about fifty-year-old frolicking? None of that, got-old-when-we-were-25 frolicking to which some of my peers are prone (never me, of course!) If 5 pulses of [...] |
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