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It Takes a Certain Kind of Village to Raise the Spirits of a Parent
- Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized
- July 24, 2025
In the past few years Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been widely lauded as the most innovative way to measure smarts since Intelligent Quotient (IQ). Harvard Business Review called EI a “ground-breaking, paradigm-shattering idea.” But what does EI mean? How is it useful? And what myths or misconceptions have surrounded it? Probably the most succinct definition
READ MOREIt’s National Apprenticeship Week in England, and although the Brits are more accepting of the practice than the United States, they still deal with several misconceptions about apprenticeships. Five of these were recently addressed in The Guardian and are abbreviated below: Myth 1: Apprenticeship students are dumb failures. Fact: Instead of being high school dropouts,
READ MOREThese literary works were written by authors that are recognized as some of the best of all time. Though many titles which bear their names are still popular and in circulation today, each one of these authors composed literary pieces which have been lost to history. Though we may have a historical record of their
READ MOREIn her famous 1947 essay “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy Sayers wrote: “Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to
READ MOREThis week marks the first annual National Apprenticeship Week. In recognition of it, here are five facts about apprenticeships that you should know: 1. Apprenticeship was Prevalent in Antiquity According to author Paul Douglas – a University of Chicago professor writing in 1921 – the common notion that apprenticeship began in the medieval age is
READ MOREHarvey Weinstein is an overweight, crude, sex-addicted creep. But a powerful creep. At least until one week ago. Weinstein is the co-founder of the production-and-distribution companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company. He has shared the credit for more than 300 Oscar nominations and after Steven Spielberg and God, has been thanked more times than anyone
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