learning
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The Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself
We all have certain skills we’re particularly good at and may have been perfecting since childhood — things like art, cooking or fixing electronic gadgets. But as we age, we become painfully aware of our shortcomings and might decide we want to take up a new hobby and learn new things.
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Can Happiness Courses Really Make You Happier?
When Krysta signed up for the UC Berkeley course The Science of Happiness, she didn’t know what to expect. The closest thing she’d done before was a personal development boot camp that had a bit of positive psychology thrown in. But after grappling with a fundamental disagreement in her marriage, she says the course was influential…
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Teach Kids to Write Numbers with the ‘Thumb Numbers’ Trick
For some kids, learning how to write numbers can be a real challenge. There are so many to learn! In all kinds of weird shapes! One can see how that would be frustrating. But an occupational therapy assistant may have come up with a method to help those kids out. She has dubbed it the…
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Show Your Aeroplane-Obsessed Kids This JetBlue Video Series
You and your kids are probably not doing much air travel these days, but while we’re all mostly grounded, JetBlue has created a new video series to connect with, entertain and educate kids who have an interest in aeroplanes and airports.