Category: Family & Education

A Beginner’s Guide to Maintaining Focus

There’s a simple formula to predict how much progress you’ll make in achieving your objectives. Simply take the amount of time you dedicate to your goals, divide it by the number of goals you’re pursuing, and multiply by the length of time you stay focused. Progress = (Time Available ÷ Number of Goals) × Length of…


How to Raise Honeybees

For thousands of years, humans have prized honey for its taste as well as its health benefits. By raising bees at home, beekeepers can harvest and enjoy their own honey. There are two types of honey: raw and processed. Raw honey is collected from a beehive and consumed after it’s passed through a filter to…


A World-Class Gift for a Bargain Basement Price

For most of us, the daily mail brings bills, advertisements, a magazine or newspaper, political circulars in the appropriate season, and the occasional holiday or birthday card. But a personal letter is as rare as a blizzard in July. For two centuries, the U.S. Postal Service has maintained a dead letter office, the cemetery of…


Summer Games

The family that plays together stays together, and has tons of fun in the process, especially with this selection of approachable yet challenging games. (Courtesy of GoSports) An Ancient, Fun Game GoSports XL Portable Cornhole Set $49.99 Legend has it cornhole was invented by a 14th-century cabinet maker who was inspired by watching his children…


Public Manners: Making a Good Impression While Out and About

In our busy daily lives, it can be easy to inadvertently let manners slide, so here are a few tips to ensure proper behavior while shopping, traveling, or relaxing. Space: The Final Frontier It can be a challenge to not accidentally invade someone’s private space while traveling on the subway, in an elevator, or while…


Dear Dr. Chloe, How Can I Get Over My Ex and Potentially Stop Experiencing This Type of Pain Ever Again?

Dear Dr. Chloe, Is there any psychology for getting over a breakup? I have friends that seem able to endure them very easily … but not me. In fact, right now I’m feeling super stuck on a guy from three months ago. We dated for six months, and it was pretty serious (to me, at…


Summer: Time to ‘Deschool’

If you are a parent of schoolchildren approaching the glorious summer break, might I suggest you use the time to reap the many benefits of deschooling. Deschooling is a process familiar to many homeschoolers during which you and your family shake off and let go of the many notions, assumptions, and beliefs about learning that…


The Unforeseen Problems of Preschool

We have more preschool programs all the time. In fact, a recent article in The New York Times indicates that there are more preschool openings than can be filled by children, noting that “early childhood advocates say more families would likely sign up if they knew about the benefits of preschool.” But these so-called benefits…


Celebrating Others’ Good Fortune

When you learn of someone else’s good fortune—some positive development in their lives—what’s your honest first reaction? Are you genuinely happy for them or do you feel a twinge of envy that the good fortune isn’t yours? Everyone can relate to the latter, even if it isn’t always the case. That sense of envy is…


Dear Next Generation: Give It All You’ve Got

My advice to the younger generation is to give it all you’ve got. And you have plenty to give, even just starting out. You have your time to give, and whenever you have heard an old timer say they would scrub toilets to get ahead, or that they would not ask a worker to do…