A few weekends ago, my wife and I took our kids camping. We picked a destination that we have been to a few times to hike around but never to camp. It was going to be a new adventure. You would think that we had gone to some grand amusement park. The tent was our […]
In Seth Godin’s best selling book Linchpin: Are you Indispensable?, he writes that “Classrooms have become fear based and test-based battlefields.”[1] Godin goes on to list of what I’m going to call predictable education. Here are just a few: Fit in Use #2 Pencils Show up everyday Buy the things the other kids are buying […]
Parents may dote on the tragicomic adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants, but researchers say that that the cartoon’s fast-based scenes may make it harder for young children to pay attention and think. “I would not encourage parents of a 4-year-old boy to have him watch SpongeBob right before he goes in for his kindergarten readiness assessment,” […]
