Susan Marie Dawson Licensed, Certified Brain Integration Technique Practitioner Susan Marie Dawson is a licensed and certified Crossinology practitioner and has been practicing the Brain Integration Technique (BIT) since 2013. She is highly trained in the ability to treat Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) through her intensive studies with […]
Trevor Dimick – Mountain West Region
Trevor Dimick Licensed, Certified Brain Integration Technique Practitioner Mountain West Regional Manager Trevor, the founder and owner of Rocky Mountain Health and Wellness, graduated from Weber State University with a degree in Child and Family Studies and Psychology. Trevor has earned his Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) certificate from the National Council on Family Relations […]
Teenage Years….Helping Teens Find Purpose
Helping Teens Find Purpose: A Tool For Educators To Support Students’ Discovery By Katrina Schwartz SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 Classroom educators know better than anyone else how much of learning is built on the strength of relationships in the room. When students like and trust their teacher, they learn better. That’s why large class sizes and a […]
The Link Between Detached Dads and Risk-Taking Girls
How much do fathers matter to the personal development of their daughters? Scientists studying families have long suspected that domestic instability and insufficient fathering predispose girls to risky sexual behavior, but there was no hard evidence for this view. A study published in the journal Developmental Psychology in May used an ingenious research design to […]
Raising a Mountain Kid
Research shows that kids who spend time outdoors are more well adjusted. Here’s why—and a real-time example to prove it. (Ft. Collins Magazine) A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, when my oldest son was 13, he came to my husband, Shawn, and me with an interesting proposition. Scout has long been an admirer of people like Ed […]
Child Development: The Brain Game
Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why. By Paul Tough. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Random House. AFTER the collapse of the Soviet Union, the number of infants in Russian orphanages swelled. They had food, and they were clean and safe. But the staff were impersonal and cold, until researchers coached them in new ways: smiling at the […]
Johnson: Bringing up baby bilingual
Strategies for getting youngsters fluent in more than one language The Economist, Oct 29th 2013 | by R.L.G. | BERLIN THIS weekend Johnson enjoyed an American holiday in Berlin: the children’s Halloween party held by neighbors, a half-German, half-American couple. Besides mermaid tails, ladybug antennas or monster horns, nearly every one of the nippers at the […]
Nature v Nurture Gender Fluidity: The controversial biology of sexual selection
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science and Society. By Cordelia Fine. BOYS like sticks and girls prefer dolls, or so the tidy evolutionary story goes. Because stone-age men hunted game and competed for mates, boys want to play rough, take risks and assert dominance. Because women mainly cared for babies, girls still hope to nurture. Given […]
Nature plus Nurture
Nature plus nurture Girls do better than boys in school and university. But both can still improve—sometimes for surprising reasons STENDHAL once wrote that all geniuses who were born women were lost to the public good. At least in the rich world, that wasteful truth has been triumphantly overcome. More than half of new graduates […]
Scanning reveals what pregnancy does to a mother’s brain
The Economist Neuroscience Scanning reveals what pregnancy does to a mother’s brain New mothers experience reductions in the volume of grey matter in their brains AS ANY parent will tell you, once you have had children nothing is ever quite the same. Including, it seems, their mothers’ brains. In a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience, […]