Challenging activities give students opportunities to apply and integrate what has been taught in ways that allow for creativity.
3 Principles for Teaching Kids Financial Intelligence
Here are creative and impactful ways to raise children to understand money.
Here are creative and impactful ways to raise children to understand money.
How Intentional Bonding Experiences Make Your Child Stronger
Your child will have cherished memories of your own parenting.
Your child will have cherished memories of your own parenting.
Teaching Students Skills, Rather Than Merely Facts
Students need great teachers to instruct them on how to brainstorm, solve problems, and collaborate with others.
Students need great teachers to instruct them on how to brainstorm, solve problems, and collaborate with others.
Learning to Ride a Bike
The reason it is so intimidating is that we must learn a bunch of skills and coordinate them at once.
The reason it is so intimidating is that we must learn a bunch of skills and coordinate them at once.
Top 7 Parenting Tips: Applying Research to the Practice of Parenting
Here is a brief synopsis of the most important strategies and techniques for being a great parent.
— Editor’s note: This post is offered as a book excerpt; it is the Introduction of Positive Parenting (2019, Lasting Impact Press) by parenting expert and educator Dr. John D Rich, Jr. — There are seven main positive parenting tips that will be the focus of my attention in this book. Here is a brief synopsis…
A Discussion About Bias and Blindness
It takes a large number of counterexamples to motivate our brains to question our beliefs.
It takes a large number of counterexamples to motivate our brains to question our beliefs.
Gender-Free Parenting
Teach your children that all of the virtues---compassion and bravery, love and assertiveness---have their place in the lives of successful, well-rounded people.
Teach your children that all of the virtues – compassion and bravery, love and assertiveness – have their place in the lives of successful, well-rounded people.
Being Kind to Your Children: It’s Not Coddling!
Positive parenting is more effective than harsh tactics.
Positive parenting is more effective than harsh tactics
The Reality of Whiteness and Justice for All
A white, straight, cis-male professor discusses his privilege and how other men like him can make a difference.
Embed from Getty Images — White people have a hard time admitting that American society is tilted in their favor. As a psychologist, my observation is this: When black people speak up about inequality, white people respond with a combination of disgust and fear, as if they had been personally assaulted, or they had been accused…
Racism: The Hidden Sin That Infects us All
In what ways will you try to resist your racial biases this week?
In what ways will you try to resist your racial biases this week?
Self-Sabotage on the Softball Field and in Life
How does your own self-sabotage keep you from what you'd like to do, be, or have in life?
How does your own self-sabotage keep you from what you’d like to do, be, or have in life?
The Winner of ‘Survivor’ Sparks a Conversation About PTSD
Research helps us understand how PTSD can affect parenting.
Embed from Getty Images — This past Wednesday, Ben Dreibergen won the popular reality game show Survivor. Ben is a U.S. Marine, who was deployed to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the infantry. As a result of his experience there, he suffers from symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In one gripping segment of…
Negative Parenting Transformed into Positive
What do you do to create warm, positive experiences with your children?
What do you do to create warm, positive experiences with your children?
Grief and Embracing the Future
How can we 'get over' the Loss of a loved one?
How can we ‘get over’ the Loss of a loved one?
How to Discipline Children Without Hitting Them
Spanking is ineffective and immoral. Here's how to raise your children with kindness, instead.
Spanking is ineffective and immoral. Here’s how to raise your children with kindness, instead.