parenting

MM: Joe, I have been using the phrase "the intelligence of play for many years. What is the relationship between play and learning?

Through studying child-development, I saw how our cultural world view was formed by our social models; and how this view is locked into the very neural structures of our brains, not as opinion but as our world-forming, perceptual-conceptual process.

PGA Tour - I'm not a great guy if I shoot 65 and I'm not a bad guy if I shoot 78. I'm still Peter Jacobson the person and my golf score is simply that, my golf score.

In any given sport; basketball, baseball, football, golf, whatever it might be, there are a few individuals who are really on top of the game. They are spectacular and everyone comes to watch them because these magical athletes are in this wonderful state of ease.

After 12,000 hours of compulsory training at the hands of nearly one hundred government certified men and women, many high school graduates have no skills to trade for an income or even any skills with which to talk to each other.

Memories of early trauma are there, underneath the surface. They’re there, in our dreams, attitudes, even in our vocabulary. People unconsciously walk around in them.

Kids get their fair share of humiliation. If we can make it a little bit safer and give kids a way to enjoy being active in ways that suit them best, we will establish a motivating factor that will keep them involved and active, hopefully for the rest of their lives. John is a former professional tri-athlete and the author of Body, Mind and Sport.

A conversation with Michael Mendizza on original play and cultural contest

A conversation with Michael Mendizza and Marion Diamond, Phd, Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

A conversation between David B. Chamberlain, PhD., and Suzanne Arms from the DVD Babies Know More Than You Think.