Your Parenting Matters

Okay, I got the Outliers book by Gladwell. It’s a fascinating exploration of how people get to the top of their game. In terms of parenting and reflecting on my own childhood, I wonder how different my abilities would be now if I knew from an early age that my accomplishments would be more about [...]

I saw an interview with Gladwell talking about his new book. I found his ideas about children and learning fascinating. In our schools we tend to put more emphasis on how intelligent a child is and not how much he is willing to work. He also describes talent as a willingness to practice not just [...]

Recently, my daughter shared with me about a interview she heard with a man named Daniel Pink. He is a self-proclaimed “left-brained” person. You know left-brained folks do logical, orderly kind of thinking. He has written a book called “A Whole New Mind”, which is a discussion that the world is moving toward the need [...]