Category: Health
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Pesticides and child development
Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is an excellent free newsletter aimed at parents of kids with learning disabilities and ADHD. I have generally found it to be a good resource. In this issue, they linked to an article about pesticides and children. Did you know that every human tested now has pesticides in their body…
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Stress and learning
I am sort of a “learning research junkie”—I’ll read pretty much anything about all the new research into how our brains learn—and don’t learn. When I was working on my book, my publisher sent me pretty much any book that they thought might be of interest to my audience. I read all of them. I…
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Hear me “on the radio”
My daughter was very impressed to hear that I was going to “be on the radio” today. She asked, “Which station?” In this modern world, she is straddling two eras of technology, perhaps three. Sometimes we listen to local radio stations over the real radio airwaves. Sometimes we listen to local radio stations which we…
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Favorite boy, favorite girl
My daughter has started to refer to her brother as “Favorite Boy.” You might think that this is not an epithet, but you would be wrong. She is skilled at turning any fine word into an insult, when her brother is the one she’s referring to. In this particular case, after years of not pulling…
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Birthing a book
People compare writing a book to having a baby, and in many ways its the same. You pour a huge amount of yourself into a book, whether it’s an autobiography or an academic treatise on a rare insect from Guatemala. But for me, the process of publishing my book, From School to Homeschool, has been…