For parents who want to worry less and play more!
The academic push — how early is too early? This is a question I spend a lot of time thinking about. I think about it as it relates to my own life with my 6 year old twins, but also it has a big influence in affecting the way we think about our business, Braincandy. […]
Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Sam
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Last Saturday night after I had put my children to bed I received a call. My grandmother, Lucy, had passed away. She was 99 years old and at the end of her life but it still didn’t make receiving that call any easier. My husband was out, my children were asleep and I buried my […]
Posted on September 24th, 2006 by Sam
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There is a powerful trend of smart women beginning to emerge that society has deemed, “Mompreneurs.” I’m proud to say I am among them. There are so many of us out there that have dreamed up good ideas as we’ve been nursing, feeding or trying to affect a nap that there is now a term […]
Posted on September 20th, 2006 by Sam
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Would you be surprised to learn there is virtually no research supporting any link between homework and achievement in the elementary school? Or more homework in third grade correlates with lower achievement?
“More and more homework is being dumped on younger and younger kids,” Alfie Kohn, author of “The Homework Myth,” told me. “Research has consistently […]
Posted on September 9th, 2006 by Sam
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We’ve always said that Braincandy, and the content we create, is about an “organic” entertainment experience. About children participating in an active way asking open ended questions and enabling a child to truly engage.
It turns out we were doing everything right. See this article from the NYT talking about a couple of new studies published […]
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by Sam
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For those of you who wonder, like me, there is a wide range of opinion when it comes to children and the media. This is an interesting article that presents both an optimistic and also a realistic picture of the challenges we as parents face when we make decisions on exposure to things like television.
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/babypictures3.htm
Posted on September 4th, 2006 by Sam
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