The past few days have presented our local Central Coast community with some interesting personal challenges. For a few days, the entire geographical area has been pounded by nature. A…
With apologies to the great William Shakespeare: “To be or not to be”, is simply no longer the question we should be asking ourselves. Rather, the question is better phrased…
For many children and adults, despite having no known physical or mental disability, many learning tasks like spelling, organising themselves, writing, reading and even playing games that involve throwing and…
Where to Begin Improving Short Term Memory The first step to better working memory is to understand how memory works and to accept your limitations. That doesn’t mean saying, “Oh,…
The pizza learning model: How children’s learning is like making a pizza. Most of us enjoy a traditional pizza every now and again. It’s often a treat at week’s end,…
Fight, Flight or Learn! The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what’s…
I remember as a child, often getting into trouble, sometimes for things I didn’t do. (There were also many things that I DID do, that somehow got missed by my…