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  • Creative Kids (Part 2): 7 Ways to Teach Flow


    BlogsAuthority Authority: 160
    In my previous post , I shared why its a good idea to help kids learn to enter a flow state more often. Here is the how : 7 tips for helping your (or any) child get the benefits of entering and staying longer in the flow zone: 1. DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF FLOW. Learn the signs of flow (one way is to keep ...
    1 week ago
  • Of Mice and Mutts: Why Behavioral Science Is Failing Our Dogs


    BlogsAuthority Authority: 160
    Theres a growing trend in this country of moving away from using behavioral science methods in education and child-rearing, and trying a more loving and playful approach. Popular author and lecturer Alfie Kohn sums up the operant conditioning approach as, "Do this and youll get that ." In a September, 2009 New ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Of Mice and Mutts: How Behavioral Science Is Failing Our Dogs


    BlogsAuthority Authority: 160
    Theres a growing trend in this country of moving away from using behavioral science methods in education and child-rearing, and trying a more loving and playful approach. Popular author and lecturer Alfie Kohn sums up the operant conditioning approach as, "Do this and youll get that ." In a September, 2009 New ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Of Mice and Mutts: Is Behavioral Science Failing Our Dogs?


    My Puppy, My SelfAuthority Authority: 92
    Theres a growing trend in this country of moving away from using behavioral science methods in education and child-rearing, and trying a more loving and playful approach. Popular author and lecturer Alfie Kohn sums up the operant conditioning approach as, "Do this and youll get that ." In a September, 2009 New ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Kohn Head


    Blog for Cranial GunkAuthority Authority: 99
    Whenever the subject of Asian parents and discipline comes up, I think of Russell Peters’ skit about his dad and spankings. BigWOWO posted a reaction to Alfie Kohn’s article on “unconditional parenting.” As Daniel Willingham aptly points out , Alfie Kohn “has made a virtual industry out of finding ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Why a Blog about Homework?


    East Bay Homework BlogAuthority Authority: 103
    Homework is a hot button topic. Anyone who has ever been a student, is currently a student or who is the parent of a student has an opinion about homework. Today when I Google “homework ” I find 40,100,000 results. Many of these homework sites offer tips to help children with their homework and accept the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • It’s OK to praise, punish


    Joanne JacobsAuthority Authority: 608
    Children need unconditional love at all times, writes Alfie Kohn in the New York Times. Both praise and punishment backfire , he argues. What’s a parent to do? Love your kids unconditionally and tell them when they’re going wrong or right,  responds Ashley Merryman, co-author of Nurture Shock . ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Is Conditional Parenting Bad For Children?


    NeatoramaAuthority Authority: 787
    Should you love your children unconditionally or should you dole out love only when they behave? Do your children become better adults if you are selective about your approvals – like many of the new parenting advice books say? Author Alfie Kohn wrote an interesting article for The New York Times wrote about some ...
    8 weeks ago
  • Love without conditions


    Confessing EvangelicalAuthority Authority: 123
    In the first of my posts last month on Dorothy Martyn’s Beyond Deserving , I mentioned Alfie Kohn’s book Unconditional Parenting . This book turned my approach to parenting upside down when I read it earlier this year, and Kohn has now published a summary of his thesis in today’s New York Times . He ...
    8 weeks ago

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