Category Archives: Children

What do Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have to do with attention skills? Or music and divided attention.

Knowing how I like many kinds of music, friends encouraged me to see Be’la Fleck and the Flecktones. I love exposing my daughter Sally to new musical genres. Besides, I always preach that new and novel is good for the …

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“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” Part 2

Last week, I wrote about what I liked in Amy Chua’s parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.  This week, let’s look at the parenting techniques that, as a brain trainer, I recommend you avoid. It was difficult to …

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