Yearly Archives: 2014

The Science of Raising Happy Kids (from 9gag.com)

Source : http://9gag.com/gag/a2NLOD1 Image source: http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/a2NLOD1_700b_v1.jpg

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10 Reasons Why Handheld Devices Should Be Banned for Children Under the Age of 12, by Cris Rowan

Source: m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4899218 The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Pediatrics state infants aged 0-2 years should not have any exposure to technology, 3-5 years be restricted to one hour per day, and 6-18 years restricted to 2

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Samurai Spirit in an MBA Program, by Yoshito Hori Founder and President of GLOBIS

Source : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130909155617-225119-samurai-spirit-in-an-mba-program Having graduated from Harvard Business School in 1991, long before the 2001 collapse of Enron or the 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, I was unsurprisingly educated with a far greater weight given to skills and academic knowledge,

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Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? By LynNell Hancock

Source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/?all It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme—by Finnish standards. One of his

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How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves, by Francis L. Thompson – an engineer at Northrop Grumman Corp

Source: qz.com/165716/how-i-made-sure-all-12-of-my-kids-could-pay-for-college-themselves/ My wife and I had 12 children over the course of 15 1/2 years. Today, our oldest is 37 and our youngest is 22.  I have always had a very prosperous job and enough money to give my

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12 Things I Want To Teach My Toddler About Work by Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO at HubSpot

Source : https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140122173627-658789-12-things-i-want-to-teach-my-toddler-about-work?_mSplash=1 My son turned 3 recently. I know it’s a bit early to teach him about business and life lessons — but it’s never too early to start thinking about it. And besides, he’s already starting to show

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