If you haven’t read, seen or heard about the latest hand-wringing over the lack of diversity in tech, just wait for the next one. It goes like this: Someone at some huge tech company does something sexist/ racist There is a lot of hand-wringing/ tweeting over how tech is predominantly […]
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You know that old joke , “If I’d known children were this much fun, I’d have had them first.” Game design is like that. I know, you are probably siding with Maria and asking, “Is this like her ‘push-ups for the brain’ , where I can’t see how it […]
Game Design: You can’t have your grandchildren first
Maria hates my push-ups analogy for our games but I think it is totally accurate. No one’s entire workout consists of push-ups. However, just about every athlete does push-ups at some time or another. Just about everyone can do push-ups. Maybe not equally well or an equal number, but I […]
Push-ups for your brain
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 8, 2016 “We Can’t All Be Mothers but We Can All Be Mentors“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Since I already called my mom on Mother’s […]
Throwback Thursday: We Can’t All Be Mothers but We Can ...
It’s not easy being the parent of an adolescent under any circumstances. Parents want to protect and care for their children. Youth want to experience life, to become young adults. This conflict is even greater when the child has a disability. Parents often see their child as vulnerable because of […]
Parenting Adolescents with Disabilities
Are you one of those people who just memorized the formula in math class and tried to get by? Did you memorize as much as you could of the math book and just hope that there were enough familiar problems on the test that you could at least pass the […]
Why you don’t understand math
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 16, 2016 “Children need our love the most when they deserve it the least“Â that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. In a very random life event, […]
Throwback Thursday: Children need our love the most when they ...
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 27, 2016 “Parents are Allowed to Have their Own Dreams“Â that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. In the past month, I have been in five cities […]
Throwback Thursday: Parents are Allowed to Have their Own Dreams
1 I must have struck a chord with my previous post on helping (encouraging/ coercing) your adolescent to get a first job. I thought I provided some practical advice but received several emails asking for more. So, being the full service organization we are, here is my follow-up post with more suggestions […]
Parenting Productive Adolescents: Advice Needed
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 9, 2016 “Your Baby Is Ugly and Other Start-up Lessons“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. It’s almost 6 am here on the east coast, and after […]
Throwback Thursday: Your Baby Is Ugly and Other Start-up Lessons
1 I have been teaching a very long time and in a wide swath of this country. I taught math to middle school students who were attending a special school due to severe behavioral and emotional problems. I taught developmental psychology, creating one of the first online courses ever offered at […]
What I learn from teaching while running a startup
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 17, 2016 “The Number One Piece of Advice for Stress Relief“ that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Whenever you find yourself overworked or tired out, it’s […]