Author: Atomic
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Parenting Retrospective: Boosting My Child’s Language Skills with Read-Along Videos Instead of Cartoons
Something about the season’s changing naturally causes us to reflect on the year past. What’s the same, what’s different and the decisions we’ve made and how they’ve played out. I wanted to share a simple swap that had a really positive impact on my kid. As always, this is just me relating that it worked…
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Olga de Dios: Celebrating Unique Voices in Children’s Literature
Books that promote positive self image, tolerance for mistakes, and embracing diversity are really important for making progress with speech delays in children. The biggest block is if they think it’s safer to not talk than be criticised. In this post, I focus on the works of Olga de Dios, a Madrid based author with…
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STEM & Cognitive Science Links Roundup for Nov 24, 2024
Why saying “good luck” might undermine success, the surprising effects of venting, and how oxytocin could combat addiction. Discover how kids learn best after witnessing impossible events, and why your body’s cells might have more to do with memory than we thought.
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STEM and Speech Activities for Nov Nov 4-11
Dinosaur-themed STEM and Speech development activities, colouring, and dino speech therapy bingo and our favourite activities we found online.
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Finding Hope in Life’s Revisions- on failure, fifth drafts and third acts
On resilience. In life, starting over again and again can be seen as inconsistency or failure. In writing and product design, it’s refinement.
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Halloween “Go Fish” – A fun way to develop language and bilingualism
I designed a memory game that doubles as a simplified ‘Go Fish’ to help my daughter practice language skills. It’s fun and educational, with options for bilingual play. I’m sharing the files in English and Spanish for others to enjoy.
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When TikTok Became the Hunger Games
TikTok may seem dystopian right now, but it’s causing the biggest shift to how we think of war since the invention of photography.
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Implicit memory: TickTock’s Effect on our Memory – it’s not what you think
Implicit bias – when we don’t know we remember something -can make
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My “Lazy Girl” Approach to Fitness
On discovering that that switching to “easy and light” with workouts gives me faster results.
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