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Understanding What Educations Reform Is

By far the most eloquent and knowledgeable thinkers and speakers on the subject of education reform Sir Ken Robinson. Systems that grow to the size and weight of the one we have cannot adapt in time for meaningful reform to take place. The system needs to be decentralized and upgraded in more natural ways that allow for independent thinking, creative thinking, critical thinking and group collaboration, which will require leadership skills.

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Motivating Kids To Go Back To School

Transition time again, the kids are back in school and there are already grumblings and protests being staged in our house. Most of us have only dreamt of the peaceful satisfaction of having kids who’ve done their homework, are motivated to go to school, practiced to the extent of their abilities and pursue worthwhile interests. [...]

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Motives For Parenting

From a parenting perspective, if you want to see your kids change, be the change you want to see first. Parenting rebels and geniuses is more about motivation than discipline. The following is an example of motivating kids by changing the parent’s perception and approach. From this research we learn that the praising action, noticing [...]

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Dope Gamer Junkies

Your Baby Can Read! The average American kid spends 7 hours & 38 minutes a day in front of screens; TVs, computers and now mobile devices like gamers and phones. That number has increased right along with the increase in childhood obesity and falling academic scores. Video games and social media give our kids a [...]

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Positive Emotions

“Interest remain an important motivator for learning throughout childhood and continuing into adulthood. A long tradition of studies on intrinsic motivation suggests that learning motivated by intrinsic interest is more efficient than learning by extrinsic rewards. Specifically, intrinsic interest has also been linked to greater conceptual understanding, higher levels of academic achievement, lower drop-out rates, [...]

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Richard Saunders – Franklin The Original Blogger

Benjamin Franklin “Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.” Your poor Friend and Servant, R. Saunders The choices we make, as well as the choices we lay out for our children shouldn’t be easy. Why do we expect them to be? The more difficult the choice the better [...]

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the first bloggers, as in Poor Richard’s Almanac. Courteous Reader “I might be in the place attempt to gain thy Favor, by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than that of the publick Good; but in this I should not be sincere; and Men now a-days too [...]

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My Baby Can Read!

Really? That’s great. I was up late reading and decided to turn on the weather station get the updated forecast for the morning. Before I could flip the channel I was hooked by a commercial that claims to teach babies to read. Very well done, brilliant! My first question is, why? Why would you need [...]

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Miracles & Bright Kids

Bright Spots Make Miracles We parents need to force ourselves to focus our attention and comments on the positive things our kids do. That doesn’t mean we ignore the problem areas. However, we might address the problems a little differently. Remember when your parents lectured you on ….? Did it help? Did you resent it? [...]

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Goal Setting For Kids

The underlying motive for writing and researching for BestChild.org is because I want my kids to have the ability to identify, set and achieve goals. To live passionately! This was the biggest issue (challenge) I saw with the Millennial Generation. Over 10 years in Human Resources, interviewing 1,000s of college graduates, and watching them in [...]

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