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Study: Teach Planning Skills for Math and Reading Success
Strong planning skills predict success in reading and math. Image: Flickr/lilszeto It’s no great revelation that poverty is a vicious cycle: children from low-income families are likely to...
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Wisdom and Narcissism: What Makes a Good Leader?
Study: only one of the five components of wisdom is associated with transformational leadership. And another component of wisdom actually blocks leadership ability. Narcissists make seductive leaders:...
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Study: Music Prodigies Beat Math Prodigies at Numbers and Art Prodigies are...
At age six, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age eight, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do...
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Does Following LEGO Instructions Make Kids Less Creative?
Image: Flickr/Do-Hyun Kim cc license In a community of LEGO-building parents, it’s only a matter of time before someone bemoans the idea that “when we were little” we all had trunks of loose bricks...
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This One Quick Trick Will Transform Your Problem Solving
Though few Shakespeare historians count Juliet a genius, when she gushes from the balcony, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet,” she demonstrates her...
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The Science of Developing ‘Math Identity’
Recent study shows that more than just being good at math, the development of ‘mathematics identity’ comes from choosing to engage in math and having your ability recognized by others. The other day I...
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Study Shows We “Undervalue and Underutilize” Persistence in Creativity
It’s time to test your creativity: In 2 minutes, generate as many original ideas for things to eat or drink at a Thanksgiving dinner as you can. Now make a prediction: how many more creative ideas do...
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How the Snooze Button Chooses Brainwaves for Insight or Energy
To snooze or not to snooze? The answer can determine whether you start the day with energy or insight. Flickr/John Fowler cc license There are times you need energy and times you need insight. How you...
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Study Shows Powerful Tool to Help Your Child Learn Math
Image: Flickr/Tomas Quinones cc license There’s a lot to be said about parenting like crazy until your child is in first grade and then keeping the kid safe, active and well-fed while he/she sorts it...
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The Surprising Power of an Uncomfortable Brain
Image: Flickr/J Brew cc license James Mourey, doctoral student in Psychology at the University of Michigan, decided to run experiments on guests at his mother’s holiday parties without her knowledge....
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Surprise Winner In Study Of Old vs. Young Brains
Image: Flickr/Steven Pisano By now you know that as your brain ages, it looks more and more like Swiss cheese. Things you’d like to keep in slip out through the holes and it gets harder and harder to...
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What Creates the Human Idea of Fairness?
Image: Wikipedia cc license Imagine you have to split a plate of cookies. Does the person who baked the cookies get the most or do you split them evenly? Most very young children would split them...
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Is Intrinsic Motivation Essential to School Success?
Flickr/ r. nial bradshaw cc license Studies have proven the power of intrinsic motivation: With it, kids are more likely to be creative, set goals, and much, much more. It makes sense that intrinsic...
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Persistence and Flexibility: A Dual Path to Creativity
Flickr/Gerwin Sturm cc license My kids are the north and south poles of creative problem-solving: Kestrel, my 7-year-old, will squeeze a problem until she wrings blood from it; Leif, my 9-year-old,...
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Study Shows Surprising Skill That Underlies Math and Reading
Do you remember second grade reading groups? They had nifty names like redbirds, bluebirds, and goldfinches to keep us from discovering who was in a “high” group and who was in a “low” group. But it...
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Insight Strikes! But Can You Trust It?
Image: Flickr/Jochen Spalding You’re standing in the shower when you suddenly remember who wrote that song you heard in the car last night. Or you’re lying there half asleep after hitting the snooze...
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Math Anxiety…And What to Do About It
Image: Flickr/Keoni Carbal Your mouth is dry. Your armpits are wet. Your brain is neither dry nor wet, but seems to be leaking out your ears. You feel your vision closing to a pinprick around a jumble...
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Can You Survive the Rock Climbing Maze?
This weekend is the U.S. Youth Boulder Championships in Bend, Oregon. Basically, it will be a weekend of maniacally strong wee ones mashing their bodies into odd positions in order to creep skyward...
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