education
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Overcome Procrastination! 5 Suggestions for Kids
Procrastination can affect a child’s achievement, relationships with family and friends, happiness, creativity, and more. Yet kids still procrastinate—for many reasons. Here are 5 strategies they can use to overcome procrastination tendencies.
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Are Parents Increasingly Getting Better At Supporting Their Children’s Cognitive Growth?
The latest insights on intelligence, imagination, potential causes for the rise in IQ scores over the years, and how behavioral genetics is related to education and grit.
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How Experts Get Even Better: 5 Lessons from the Practice of Expert vs Intermediate Athletes
Expertise is not just a matter of time. A comparison of the practice habits of expert and intermediate athletes suggests that there's a little more to it than that.
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The Magic Button
Every one of us has a magic button in our brain that moves us into a more efficient learning mode. Can we push it proactively? Can we use it just before starting a day at school to create wonders in the classroom?
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Kids on the Brink of Summer: How to Make it Happily Productive
Summer—what lies ahead for your kids? Play? Relaxation? Packed schedules? Boredom? Here are 2 directional leads and 6 action-oriented tactics to consider when kids ask, “What am I supposed to do?”
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How Brainstorming Can Make Your Family’s Summer Vacation (and Life) Rock!
Despite experts' claims, you and your children are the experts on you and your children. Here's how creativity tools like brainstorming can help you leverage this expertise in daily life.
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Positioning Your Teen For Success
In our data-driven world, social comparison understandably leads to anxiety about your child’s achievement: How does my kid really measure up? How much more do I need to be doing to be sure that my kid is in the best possible position for success?
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Memorizing Music: The Two Most (and the Two Least) Efficient Strategies
Not all memorization strategies are created equal. Learn which two are the best use of your time.
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How Can We Best Help Talented Underrepresented Students?
The story of CAL Prep and how a decade of work and research on how to best educate talented underrepresented students is something educators can learn from.
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School Winds Down, Change Ramps Up: Tips to Help Kids Adjust
The school year draws to a close and the summer months begin. However, transitions and changes in routines and social situations can be difficult for lots of children. Here are 7 tips for parents, and another 7 tips for kids, to help smooth the process.
