Research has shown that creating or tending things by hand enhances mental health and makes us happy. Dr. Kelly Lambert (www.kellylambertlab.com) explored the relationship between hand use, current cultural habits, and mood. She found that hands-on work satisfies our primal need to make things and could also be an antidote for our cultural malaise. Too much time on technological devices and the fact that we buy almost all of what
Self Development
October 9, 2021
10 Ways to Homeschool: Methods, Styles & Approaches
Out of all the homeschooling methods and styles, what’s the best one? The answer isn’t always the same for every family as different people have different tastes. Furthermore, parents and children have educational preferences about the way they want to home educate which will mean every homeschool looks a little (or a lot) different from the other. Indeed, we’ve identified 10 different ways to homeschool in this article! But, the
October 8, 2021
Laziness Does Not Exist
Let’s look at a sign of academic “laziness” that I believe is anything but: procrastination. People love to blame procrastinators for their behavior. Putting off work sure looks lazy, to an untrained eye. Even the people who are actively doing the procrastinating can mistake their behavior for laziness. You’re supposed to be doing something, and you’re not doing it — that’s a moral failure right? That means you’re weak-willed, unmotivated,