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Infant Brain Development – OR – Pay Attention to My Synapses
We are buried in 4’ of snow here in the DC area. Fortunately our household has power so we are warm and I now have the time to write this post about infant brain development. The streets are deserted,...
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Deferred Gratification – OR- The Marshmellow Test
DEFINITION: Deferred gratification or delayed gratification is the ability to wait in order to obtain something that one wants. In formal terms, an individual should be able to calculate the net...
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Education in Crisis; The Parents, Part 3
I changed my mind. I was going to write about teachers in this post but I have the cart before the horse. We first need to look at Parenting skills in our country. After all, parents are every child’s...
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Children in Crisis; Taking on the Challenges of Parenting
It seems these days that all things begin simple and go to complex as the discussion moves up the chain of command. For example, what is complicated about parenting? It takes common sense, serious...
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The Public School Nightmare – John T. Gatto
John Taylor Gatto is the author of Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, The Underground History of American Education: A School...
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The Family; The Smallest School
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” Michael Levine I have talked about many things regarding children. I have discussed infant brain development,...
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The Family; It Begins at the Beginning
We blame our Public Educational System because we say they aren’t producing educated children. We pile on teachers because we say they are lazy, self serving, and cannot teach. We blame teacher unions...
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Apple Pie Parenting; A Dose of This and a Dash of That
I have been asked by so many, “What is good parenting?” Even though I consider the answer to be a matter of common sense and honest, selfless decisions I have come to realize that common sense is not...
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