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I have been trying to think through my blogging plans for this year and since this is my spot for thinking things through, I decided to give it a try. Daniel Siegel says in the book The Developing Mind that the left brain is responsible for making sense out of things — making experience flow [...]

I did one of these personality tests a while back at my other blog but Cindy at Apple Stars had a Multiple Intelligence graph on hers so here is my complete one : ). Interesting! On my other blog I mentioned that on some tests I come out with the Feeling side higher than the [...]

This is the last section of the notes I took for the Right Brained Learners in a Left Brained World book. I don’t remember, to be honest, why it is called “troubleshooting”, but it looks like the notes are to do with tutoring or helping a right brained child at home. It looks like some [...]

Here are the ground rules for raising a right brained child, according to this great book, Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World — it was geared towards ADD kids and my kids don’t tend to be classically ADD but they do fit into the RBL category in several ways. These are drafts from [...]

I took these notes a year or so ago when I was learning about Right Brained Learners. As one myself, I think the most helpful tips for me have been the speed-reading to get the big picture, and the idea of visualizing as I read. As to minimizing distractions, I am one of the subset [...]

I was researching online for some help with some learning issues of one of my older kids.    On LD online (a very good site) I found an ADHD checklist for girls.   Interestingly, I could check off almost every symptom as applying to me.    I would have been one of the Daydreamers. “Girls [...]

Cindy at Applestars asked about how my kids and I managed ownership in the middle years.   She writes: At about 11, when my children start to do more formal things, they learn to be in charge themselves . . . by about 13, they are doing well without any oversight or assignments from me . [...]

I remember once meeting a family with several children, mostly daughters.   They argued with each other a lot (shocked me since I come from a mostly quiet introvert family) but they were quite close, too.   They mentioned once that they had their own “family language” and I remembered it up till this day [...]

I have to shut down my processing on this R-B Learning thing in order to be here for my family over Christmas, but I just wanted to point to Throwing Marshmallows: Fixing Right-Brained Learners? though if you traced Cindy’s pingback  you would find it anyway and probably most readers of this blog are making the [...]

I was drafting out this post yesterday, but Stephanie at Throwing Marshmallows said it so much better: Putting Kids in a Box “….. learning about the v-s learning style has drastically opened my view about how kids learn…it has expanded my options and has given me a new way of approaching learning with Jason. So [...]