About three years ago the Grant County, NM Chapter of Imagination Library contacted our Foundation. Imagination Library is a project of the Dolly Parton Foundation. The main goals of Imagination Library are to get high quality books for young children into homes, and to encourage parents to read to their children. The idea here is […]
Read More
Archive for executive functions – Page 2
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
June 10, 2016
Grant News—Reading Study by the Grant County, NM Chapter of Imagination Library
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
May 24, 2016
QUICK LOOK: Dangers of Students’ Short Attention Spans | LifeZette
Dangers of Students Short Attention Spans | LifeZette. by Deirdre Reilly In the above article Deirdre Reilly—pulling from a recent report that appeared in The Telegraph—observes: “The age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span that even a goldfish can hold a thought in its mind longer than a human can….” […]
Read More
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
April 15, 2016
QUICK LOOK: By age 3 environmental factors like parenting are relevant to the development of self-control
By age 3 environmental factors like parenting are relevant to the development of self-control. Research done at the University of Texas at Arlington Published in Developmental Psychology Effectively here’s new research designed to assess impulse control or the ability to delay gratification in toddlers using the Marshmallow Test protocol, among others. I have blogged about […]
Read More
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
March 29, 2016
Reaction to Gabor Maté’s “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts”
Author’s Note: I completed the final draft of this post before I wrote my 03.17.16 post wherein I recognized the “elephant in the room”: the demise of mourning practices both individual and collective. As a result, I repeat information here that also appears in my earlier post. I left the repeated information here so that […]
Read MoreRecent Posts
- A Neuropsychological Take On the End of Reading November 29, 2024
- Appendix—Lakoff on the Stories That Frames Tell Us November 16, 2024
- Systems Schmistums—The Realties of Systems Theory & Thinking November 2, 2024
Search Our Site
Search By Date
Follow us on
Bowlby Less Traveled (BLT)
Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved
By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies.Got It!Privacy policy
The Internet and How It Affects Our Ability to Develop, Maintain, and Manipulate Mental Containers (part I)
In recent months I have read two books that take opposing views concerning the future of the Internet and its impact on empathy. The first is economist and educator Jeremy Rifkin’s 2014 book entitled The Zero Marginal Cost Society—The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The Eclipse of Capitalism (which I blogged about in […]
Read More