Update: 6-25: USA Today Interview with Susan Linn here. When’s the last time you unplugged to take time, space, and silence to reconnect with yourself and just play? It’s no secret that renewal and fresh thinking often springs from quiet time, where body and brain can retreat, relax, restore…this goes for kids, too. Dr. Susan Linn writes in her book The … [Read more...]
This week’s Under the Radar conference which tracks early stage innovation announced that our friends at Dizzywood were awarded “Best in Show” of the 32 companies chosen to present at this year’s event, based on “unique value proposition and ability to monetize.” (criteria here) Scott Arpajian, (interview posting here next week) is … [Read more...]
After a grueling jan-kan-po match last night to see if I’d land in the Haight for the Girls Rock! reprise, or on the peninsula for Dr. Susan Linn’s Case for Make-Believe book tour, I opted for the latter, as this inspiring and insightful ‘rock star academic’ always has great stories and words of wisdom. (full interview forthcoming, tomorrow) I’m … [Read more...]
An Israeli play group of parents were yakking in Hebrew as their wee ones climbed, crawled and explored the soft mats, cubes and fellow toddlers at Parents Place on the Peninsula. I watched out of the corner of my eye as I met with their staff about Dr. Susan Linn’s Bay Area Book Tour for The Case for Make Believe and was struck by the profound simplicity as the … [Read more...]
This rubbery, anatomically correct representation of one pound of fat (about the size of a coffee mug) works wonders to toss around the room with kids to literally feel the weight in our ‘Sim City’ teaching tactics to elicit the almighty ‘ewwww,’ in Shaping Youth’s Gross Out Game for Good Nutrition. Buying this fat blob was my best … [Read more...]
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