PRIVATE MENTOR / FREE TIME (#1)

Posted:  16 Sep 12
Reposted: 2 Nov 14 -- to continue to help us in our search among all the world's options for constructive things to do with precious time.
Change #1: 2 Nov 14 -- added "Superhobby," Volunteerism, in the accumulator (at bottom)

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PURPOSE

This article gathers a WHOLE LOT of suggestions, all in one convenient place, for constructive free-time activities.  It may even offer suggestions for a glorious, long-term future -- my personal hope.


Immediate Applicability.

In the Section, "The Literature -- a Sampling," at the bottom of this article, is a link-list of good sources concerning HUNDREDS of available methods for using "free" time, productively -- neat hobby ideas, and such, which are circulating around the "electronic universe" -- many of which are even centuries old -- as well as those made possible by technological advances of our era.

LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN (as far as possible and appropriate to the particular situation). AND PRODUCTIVE FUN TENDS TO BE BEST, for all concerned.

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SCOPE

This article is aimed at children, parents, pre-adults, and all the rest of us.

It briefly examines some discussions of the fun-concept; some after-school programs, mainly for organizations; after-school programs for our younger fellow humans; and hobbies for us all to consider.

I think this article is also relevant to political thought -- our people need this area attended to, as much as the more "serious" concerns. It's easy to forget that life is very much about having fun. We only get one crack at this great adventure -- as far as we can be absolutely sure (not to offend those who ARE sure about what happens after the big show appears to be over).  We may as well make it a grand adventure, rather than something less.

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BACKGROUND

A.  What to do with free time?  There are good, constructive alternatives available (YES!).  Or bad ones (yuck!). Or mere, neutral time-wasters (Hmmm... )

B.  The good ones are, well, good and tend to improve things.

C.  The bad ones are undesirable and almost always worsen things.  These are excluded, since:

1. we need to lessen any and every bad behavior, not promote it; 
2. no deliberate knowledge is needed in order to behave badly; 
3. badness is, in fact, the inevitable consequence of a SERIOUS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE as to the natural, intuitive, rational, logical, practical, refinable, durable, and invincible superiority of true goodness.
4. Every bad act sets us back, sometimes permanently, rather than forward -- and FORWARD is always better, by far -- as far as the human life-experience is concerned.
5. Our duty to ourselves and the generations is to maximize the world's inventory of goodness -- and to exclude everything else.

D.  The time-wasters could go either way -- sometimes we need to place our essences into "neutral" to let automatic things about ourselves do their good work in peace -- to refresh and "re-boot" us for another go at productive living and world enhancement; to advance the generations, as has been done for us.

However, OVERDOING time-wastage means productive progress is NOT being DELIBERATELY achieved, in a life that is almost always "too brief."

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DEFINITIONS

Fun

• What provides amusement or enjoyment; specifically : playful often boisterous action or speech <full of fun>
• A mood for finding or making amusement <all in fun>
• A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure.
• Enjoyment; amusement: have fun at the beach.
• Playful, often noisy, activity.
• Affording light mirth and laughter : amusing
• Seeking or intended to amuse : facetious

Pleasure (and here is a wonderful Wikipedia discussion)

• The state or feeling of being pleased.
• Enjoyment or satisfaction derived from what is to one's liking; gratification; delight.
• Worldly or frivolous enjoyment: the pursuit of pleasure.
• Recreation or amusement; diversion; enjoyment: Are you traveling on business or for pleasure?
• Sensual gratification.

Activity

• The state or quality of being active: There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
• A specific deed, action, function, or sphere of action: social activities.
• Work, especially in elementary grades at school, that involves direct experience by the student rather than textbook study.
• Energetic activity; animation; liveliness.
• A use of energy or force; an active movement or operation.

Hobby

• An activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.
• An activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
• A pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation

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THE LITERATURE 
(a Sampling, from which to pick, choose, refine, and combine)

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1.  AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS (Google search)

FindYouthInfo.Gov (About)-- "FindYouthInfo.gov was created by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), which is composed of representatives from 17 federal agencies that support programs and services focusing on youth. The IWGYP promotes the goal of positive, healthy outcomes for youth in four significant ways ..."

SUPER-IMPORTANT Youth Topics (including fun):  FindYouthInfo.Gov -- "Through the Youth Topics series, the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs provides information, strategies, tools, and resources for youth, families, schools and community organizations related to a variety of cross-cutting topics that affect youth."

After School Alliance (About) -- "The Afterschool Alliance is working to ensure that all children have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs. Afterschool programs are critical to children and families today, yet the need for programs is far from being met.

Kids.usa.gov -- "The US Government's official web portal for kids"

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2.  FUN, IN GENERAL

Fun (Google search)
Fun (Wikipedia discussion)

Fun Activities for Girls
Fun Activities for Boys
Fun Activities for Teenagers

Fun Activities for Elementary School
Fun Activities for Middle School
Fun Activities for High School
Fun Activities for College

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3.  AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES 

(Google Searches)

DON'T FORGET -- STUDYING IS A REALLY GOOD ACTIVITY (Blog article)

(Alone OR with friends, if they stay generally focused -- smile)

General
For Kids

For Girls
For Teen-Age Girls

For Boys
For Teen-Age Boys

For 5-Year Olds
For Pre-Schoolers
For 6-Year Olds
For 11-Year Olds
For Autistic Children
For Kids - Home
For Tweens
For Toddlers

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4.  HOBBIES FOR ALL AGES (even life-times)

General
General Discussion (Wikipedia)
List of Hobbies (Wikipedia)
Directory of Hobbies (Yahoo)
World's Largest List of Hobbies (NotSoBoringLife.com)
Hobby Suggestions (Google search)

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Please note:  Right now, this is a basic link-list.  I hope it proves helpful and do intend to refine it. Eventually, it is hoped that a comprehensive analysis of all resources can be conducted so as to distill a clear regimen of those things that are necessary AND sufficient to accomplish constructive play-time alternatives, successfully, for various purposes and for various levels of difficulty and risk.

MORE TO FOLLOW

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The "Super-Hobby" -- Volunteering, all over the place, for the public good, which bounces back and envelopes us all, for the better.  (Wikipedia discussions: (1) Volunteering; (2) Volunteerism: Subcategories AND (3) Google search: Volunteerism )

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David Nelson,

Editor

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PARENTING, SOCIAL COOPERATION & THE MUSIC OF LIFE

Posted:  24 Oct 14

Purpose

"One man's music is another man's noise." True, but it also depends a lot on how your mind has been prepared to interpret the sounds -- and we do seem to have some degree of control over this self-programming.

This bulletin suggests a way to turn annoying noise (i.e.  child-noise) into beautiful music (the music of life), by merely clicking the internal switch on our mental control panels.

No need letting a public outing be spoiled by annoyance with inevitable child-noise, where "music" is to be found, by means of a minor mental-shift -- or improperly increasing parental angst with demonstrations of said annoyance.


One Way of Looking at the Thing

As long as the volume doesn't move the decibel-meter into the "red zone," I am more than fine with the sound of small children loudly learning how to communicate their feelings in public. In fact, I love it. For, long ago, I thought this through and am totally content.

To me, it's a magnificent and ESSENTIAL part of the "music of life" -- filled with great meaning and surprising intricacy and awesome beauty.

So, in my view, parents should not be unduly alarmed at being at the center of a disturbance.
It's just part of their duties and challenges -- and part of the vital price we should ALL gladly pay to replenish the species properly.

Child-noise is just life being life.

And it's far better than urgent cries from bitterest want, which still trouble our world -- for the time being, only.

HERE'S TO GIVING PARENTS AN EVEN BREAK 

-- easing back on unnecessary pressures -- 

AS THEY STRUGGLE TO ACCOMPLISH 

ONE OF SOCIETY'S MOST VITAL MISSIONS FOR US

David Nelson



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ISSUE: BULLIES

Posted:  16 Sep 12
Reposted:  8 Aug 14

PURPOSES

Immediate Applicability.
In the Section, "Literature (a Sampling)," at the bottom of this article, is a link-list of good sources concerning some of the available methods for efficiently and effectively dealing with bullies and bullying behavior

Please note the separate article on "Cyber-bullying," on this blog.

Bullying is a serious concern which manifests and contributes to social illness and personal suffering.  To fix society, fix its afflictions, methodically and thoroughly.  This article seeks to help that process with practical steps included at the end.

This article hopes to stimulate and assist thoughtful understanding in order to, perhaps, help us deal with and better handle this natural, but ALWAYS counterproductive, human behavior.

DISCLAIMER

In no way do I claim to be expert in the related professional mental health fields.  This information is intended to BEGIN and develop another public discussion on the nature and behavior of human life, with a view toward helping, in practical ways, to neutralize the hazards and maximize the opportunities.  If you directly sense a serious mental illness of concern, please consult a professional practitioner or a reputable special-purpose organization for guidance.  Perhaps this Google search can help: "How to get help for someone with a mental illness."

RATIONALE

1.  The path from childhood into adulthood should be a joyous and productive adventure.  

• The thrill of learning about the nature and behavior of this world and the people who fill it; 
• where one might fit in and contribute; 
• hopes and dreams about how things could be made better; 
• great fun; 
• how to relate with others, productively -- in good teamwork, leadership, followership, problem-solving, negotiating, friendship, constructive disagreement, and so on; 
• how to think and learn, as a life-long process of enormous power; 
• how to organize information so as to understand, store, and use it; 
• marveling at (and drawing enormous power from) the human spirit, history, achievements and even failures -- all containing vital lessons for a better future; 
•  WHAT'S LEFT TO BE DONE; 
• and so much more -- all part of making this precious life-experience rewarding for oneself, for those who are special to us and, indeed, for the entire human species; 
• fuller understanding that we all NEED one another to survive and prosper -- SEEING THE GREAT TRUTH THAT WE ALL MATTER, BIG-TIME -- as integral, indispensable parts of the single, glorious human chain-reaction that is us.

2.  But the path is also fraught with much danger -- physical and psychological hazards that can damage, spoil, or end the life experience -- untimely and unpleasantly.  Much is unavoidable risk that makes every second and minute priceless.  But, much is avoidable and shameful to accept, unchallenged.

3.  Bullying is a major spoiler of the joys of living -- for young and old -- for individuals and families -- both for the victim and for the bully (who is also a victim of circumstance).  It can occur ANYWHERE that people congregate -- in school, at work, at play, on line, by written or spoken words, on public transit, in chance meetings, unwary selection of dangerous environments, and so on.

4.  This is no trivial threat.  It can and does harm individual futures and lives -- and thus, threatens the entire human species.  Its impact can lead even to suicide or running away; bodily or emotional injury; damaged enthusiasm for education, learning and life itself; dramatically unfavorable changes in life-direction; and so on.  NO CHILD SHOULD BE MADE TO DREAD FELLOW HUMANS (in environments that are clearly supposed to be safe -- and which they cannot avoid entering) NOR BE THROWN OFF THE PATH TOWARD A FULFILLING LIFE.

5.  Dealing, MOST effectively, with this threat is not natural knowledge -- it's too complex -- it is LEARNED strategy and tactics. Much experience has been built-up to provide the knowledge.  It's there for the taking.  Some of it is below.

Save the children!  Help save the future!

DEFINITIONS

Bullying

• Bullying, defined (Google search)
• Cruelty.
• A Bully is a blustering browbeating person; especially : one habitually cruel to others who are weaker
• A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.
• A hired ruffian; a thug.
• A pimp.
• The behavior which is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. 
• "Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior manifested by the use of force or coercion to affect others, particularly when the behavior is habitual and involves an imbalance of power. It can include verbal harassment, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability.[2][3] The "imbalance of power" may be social power and/or physical power. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target"." (Wikipedia article excerpt)

THE LITERATURE (A Sampling)

• Bullying (Google search)
• Bullying (Wikipedia article)
• How to Detect Bullying at School (Google search)
• Bullying (Wikipedia discussion)
• StopBullying.gov
• Violence Prevention Works
• Dealing With Bullying (KidsHealth.org)
• Bullying at School (Education.com)
• Facts for Families: Bullying (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Reading list for all sorts of bullying -- Online, in School, in Kindergarten, General, etc.  (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Police Information: Bullying (Google search)

• HELP FOR BULLIES (Google search)
• Troubled Children (Google search)

NEW ADDITIONS:

• WORKPLACE Bullying (Workplace Bullying Institute) [Lisa]
• Free "How-To" Manuals (Bullies2Buddies.Com) [Shermin]

Please note:  Right now, this is a basic link-list.  I hope it proves helpful and do intend to refine it. Eventually, it is hoped that a comprehensive analysis of all resources can be conducted so as to distill a clear regimen of those things that are necessary AND sufficient to master the human bullying impulse.

Thanks, for leads, to: Shermin Davis and Lisa McQuail

MORE TO FOLLOW

David Nelson,

Editor

All Original Content © 2012 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby suspend those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.

LIFE-TOOLS: The Genius Within? England's Smartest Family

Posted:  6 Mar 13

WHAT A FINE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FOR THE SPECIES! 

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1.  Purpose

To share amazing evidence demonstrating the remarkable potential for developing the human genius within, far beyond "traditional" expectations.  Extremely successful, teachable techniques exist -- and more and more are surfacing.  As in all fields of human endeavor, education processes continue to mature.  Surely, public awareness of these developments is a sensible step toward spreading these advances -- and ready acquisition of such power, on a wide scale, seems a highly desirable outcome for human progress to pursue.

2.  Background

Today, a Facebook friend shared an astounding article-link which caused me to investigate further, becoming ever more amazed, the closer I looked. (Thanks to Cousin Georgiann for passing on this great story from the "StushLive" Facebook page)

3.  The Article as Posted on Facebook

 I have placed Google-search links throughout, to facilitate deeper exploration.

England’s Smartest Family

Meet the “First Family of Education” in England.
12/5/14 -- Note:  The below image no longer appears, but if you click it, 
it should take you to the appropriate Facebook Page

Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the youngest students to ever enter high school. They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.

Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their tender age. “We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.”

To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. 

Chris Imafidon said he and his wife have been through this before: they have other super-gifted, overachieving children.

• Peter's and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing, when she was just 13.   She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in the United States, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
• Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British university at the tender age of 11.
• And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6, something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.

Chris Imafidon migrated to London from Nigeria in West Africa over 30 years ago. And despite his children’s jaw-dropping, history-making academic achievements, he denies there is some “genius gene” in his family. Instead, he credits his children’s success to the Excellence in Education program for disadvantaged inner-city children.

“Every child is a genius,” he told British reporters. 

“Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] — they were nurtured. You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them excel in anything they do.”

End of Article =======

What practical things can we do with this 

stunning and inspiring information?

4.  Note: Here is a 4-minute video (from 19 March, last year) which interviews the father and three of his children -- THEY GIVE A VERY NEAT LITTLE TRICK FOR MULTIPLYING BY NINE, at the end of the video.

David Nelson

P.S.  I can't resist observing that we are all children of circumstance.  To change the child within, change the circumstances...


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FOR KIDS & LOVERS OF KIDS (Kids.gov)

Posted:  29 Dec 12

About Kids.gov - (home page link)

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Our Mission

To provide a safe place online where kids can create, play, and learn.

How The Site is Organized

• Kids.gov is organized into three audiences: Grades K-5, Grades 6-8, and Educators. 
• Each audience tab is divided into educational subjects like Arts, Math, and History. 
• Within each subject, the websites are grouped as either government sites (Federal, state, military) or other resources (commercial, non-profit, educational). 
• The sites listed under the other resources category are maintained by other public and private organizations. When users click on these links, they are leaving Kids.gov and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside websites.

Please visit our Kids Privacy page for more information.

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LIFE-TOOLS: HOW TO STUDY IN SCHOOL & FOR LIFE

Posted:  16 Sep 12

PURPOSES

Immediate Applicability.
In the Section, "Literature -- a Sampling," at the bottom of this article, is a link-list  for fast access to good sources concerning some of the available methods for efficiently and effectively studying educational and training materials.

Enabling Objectives -- ONE MORE CRUCIAL STEP IN LEARNING HOW TO LEARN.

• To provide information for students, parents, teachers -- and others -- with some basic information as to how to actually conduct this crucial life-long process, "STUDYING," sufficiently well (not that teachers don't automatically know this, quite well -- but, perhaps this will assist them with spreading the word). 
• It's a whole lot better than having our fellow humans "reinventing their own wheels," thereby wasting precious mental energy and opportunities, unnecessarily.
• This article hopes to begin to answer the question, "What are the exactly correct steps for doing homework as fast and as well as humanly possible?
• This article hopes to offer a good start in presenting "BEST STUDY METHODS" and begin accumulating toward a perfected finish, in good time.
• Parents might also find this a useful tool to guide their discussion and exploration of this topic with their children.

Terminal Objectives 

• To involve the public in accumulating experiences, ideas and information, on this topic.  
• To enable me to incorporate growing public sentiment into the design of one more key component of the larger web-based "Citizen Support System," under construction. 
• To enable readers to help grow the power of this effort, by contributing their ideas, knowledge and experiences -- as comments below this posting (and in other future ways). 

BACKGROUND

With the opening of another school season, students are faced with a lot of ideas, information and experiences they need to collect, store, organize, understand, absorb and account for.

Effective study is widely understood and securely well-proven to be crucial to understanding and making practical sense of and truly marveling at what has been presented for learning -- often recent learning, but not always recent.

Efficiency is also important.  Clearly, no one has time to lose -- and a young person is especially busy -- for they are still building their life-management systems -- a rather complicated thing to do.

So, it is very desirable that a student be able to make maximum use of available study-time -- so that (among other things) they will have more time to deal with the rest of their concerns, while making the most of their study and new knowledge-needs (thereby, making everyone happy -- for a long, long time to come).

And, good studying skill is not natural knowledge to be pulled out of thin air.

It involves practical "how-to knowledge," in great detail, adequately showing how specific skills work -- and how all of this is demonstrably worth adding to one's life-time skill-set, permanently.  Why, oh why, must our young folks have to keep reinventing what is already so thoroughly worked out?  They need every advantage we can give them.

Else the unprepared student may be condemned to having to figure out things (already well figured-out), committing wasteful and avoidable errors, and feeling -- unnecessarily -- the frustrating disadvantages of missed opportunities and easily avoidable hazards -- often at great personal and social cost, now and in the future.  No more "reinventing of the wheel," please.

DEFINITIONS

Learning is defined as "The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, practice, or study, or by being taught.

Knowledge is defined as "Information and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Understanding is defined as

1. Mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
2. A mental grasp : comprehension
3. Intellectual faculties; intelligence; mind: a quick understanding.
4. The power of comprehending; especially : the capacity to apprehend general relations of particulars.
5. Superior power of discernment; enlightened intelligence: With her keen understanding she should have become a leader.
6. Knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing; skill in dealing with or handling something: an understanding of accounting practice
7. The power to make experience intelligible by applying concepts and categories.
8. A state of cooperative or mutually tolerant relations between people: To him, understanding and goodwill were the supreme virtues.
9. An agreement of opinion or feeling : adjustment of differences.
10. A mutual agreement not formally entered into but in some degree binding on each side.
11. A friendly or harmonious relationship.

Study is defined as "The devotion of time and attention to acquiring knowledge on an academic subject 

• -- esp. by means of books [and by methodical searches through --  virtually -- the entire Human Knowledge Base (HKB) -- as presented, for FULL exploitation by us "ordinary human beings"  -- owing to the very recent birth and strong growth of -- The priceless "Internet Blessing"  -- now resting, easily -- in the hands of those -- properly interconnected with it -- and we will ALL become ever more tightly interlinked -- all in our fate's good time]

1. Application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
2. The cultivation of a particular branch of learning, science, or art: the study of law.
3. Often, studies. a personal effort to gain knowledge: to pursue one's studies.
4. Something studied or to be studied: Balzac's study was human nature.
5. Research or a detailed examination and analysis of a subject, phenomenon, etc.: She made a study of the transistor market for her firm.

Practice is defined as acting to "Perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to improve or maintain one's proficiency. [REPETITION is the essence of Practice]

Experience is defined as "Practical contact with and observation of facts or events"

THE LITERATURE 
(a Sampling, from which to pick, choose, and combine)

• How to study (Google Search)
• How to study - VIDEOS (YouTube Search)
• HowToStudy.Org
• HowToStudy.Com
• How To Study (Wiki How)
• How To Study (A Brief Guide) - State University of New York at Buffalo
• Study Guides and Strategies (A very comprehensive presentation)
• Improving Concentration, Memory and Motivation
• EDUCATION (Wikipedia's in-depth treatment of the overall topic)

Please note:  Right now, this is a basic link-list.  I hope it proves helpful and do intend to refine it. Eventually, it is hoped that a comprehensive analysis of all resources can be conducted so as to distill a clear regimen of those things that are necessary AND sufficient to accomplish study, successfully, for various purposes and for various levels of difficulty in the thing being studied.

MORE TO FOLLOW

David Nelson,

Editor

All Original Content © 2012 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby suspend those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.

ANOTHER TIP FOR PARENTS & GRAND PARENTS

0331 1042

2-Seconds to Enhance a Memory

ANOTHER TIP FOR PARENTS

Just a thought to share...

If you're not already doing this, you might consider ADDING DATES to all the little and big creations your children are generating. Then, in future years, you will possess a rich historical record to enjoy -- and to pass on.

Dates add so much meaning, order, and insight -- they add enormous value to the already valuable.

Your children will thank you, and theirs will and...

Decian

Tag: "Parenting"





All Original Content © 2012 , The MENTOR Enterprise / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby suspend those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as its free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.