Little Passports is one of the best kids subscription boxes out there, and they’re making it easier than ever to explore the word right from a box Most of us would agree that going on a world-class family vacation across the globe isn’t likely this holiday season. If your family actually is, please send pics. For the rest of us, we’re not going to jetset this year (not that far, anyway). But that doesn’t mean we can’t get to give our kiddos globally-inspired experiences right from the living room. With a subscription to Little Passports, you’re able to give your kids a world-wide adventure from anywhere. We’re convinced they’re one of the best kids subscription boxes out there. Why Little...
Our guests on The White Coat Investor podcast today are our good friends, Dr. Nisha Mehta, the founder of Physician Side Gigs, and Dr. Leif Dahleen, the founder of the Physician on FIRE. They are people who have been very successful relatively early in their careers and are now faced with what I called in a recent blog post, the Challenge of Choice. We're going to be talking today about the challenge of choice in life after financial independence, life after you have enough. This is a very interesting discussion, and we think you will really enjoy it. Listen to Episode #293 here. Journey to FI Dr. Jim Dahle: The three of us have known each other for a...
Epic fantasy has been a popular genre in the movies for nearly a century. Classics like "The Wizard of Oz," "Jason and the Argonauts," and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" attracted hordes of moviegoers; they also won awards and drew rave reviews from critics. But not every fantasy film gets two thumbs up. For every "The Lord of the Rings," there's a "Hobbit"; for every "Labyrinth," an "Eragon."And yet, some of these films might make you sit up and cheer anyway. It's not just the swords and sorcery that make them fun; it's the diverse and complex characters, the bizarre and creative creatures, and the wild and innovative settings. Many fantasy films were lambasted by reviewers when they were...
By Corrie Pikul-Brown GABA is the abbreviation for the neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid. In the study, published in the journal Current Biology, researchers explain GABA’s crucial role in helping children process new information and prepare their brains to learn and store even more. “What we found is a rapid increase in GABA in children, associated with learning,” says lead study author Takeo Watanabe, a professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown University. Up until now, there has been no clear neuroscientific evidence to explain why children learn more efficiently than adults. What has been known, for at least a century, is that the adult brain needs a cooling-off period after learning new information. Shortly after learning something new, the neural network...
ShutterstockWe all lie to our kids. Some lies – telling them their artwork is wonderful, or that Wiggles band-aids are infused with anaesthetic – benefit the child. Others are just a bit of fun. Take the Tiktok trend of telling your kids this weird little gnome is a picture of them as a baby: Or cutting off bits of their hair and pretending it was a naughty elf-on-a-shelf. Playing tricks on our kids can be a bit of fun for them as well as us, but there are a few golden rules to make sure everyone enjoys the prank. First, do kids ‘get’ pranks? From a cognitive point of view, a prank firstly involves an attempt to implant a false...
