Posted by Chip on March 16, 2010
Parents, how are your kids doing this week with the time change? If you notice that they’re a little more worn out and fussier than usual, it may not be something going on at school or with friends—or then, again it might be, because all that stuff is harder this week, and they can’t figure [...]
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Posted by Chip on March 15, 2010
Some call this week at school “March Madness,” with a nod to the endless basketball parade on television this time of year. The analogy does fit if you think about the college kids who are sometimes playing three and four basketball games in as many days, the ones with the greatest stamina often the ones [...]
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Posted by Chip on March 4, 2008
For the first time, the new federal energy legislation that mandated daylight savings time into November last fall, is also about to enter our lives and those of our children and students this March 9th.
After a winter of record-breaking snowfall in many parts of the country, and devastating weather in other locations, more light may [...]
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Posted by Chip on November 5, 2007
This past weekend we “turned back the clocks” to “standard time.” Right after Halloween the world plunged into winter darkness in the morning and the evening. How does our presumptive tinkering with time impact the lives of the youngest of our species, our children?
We think of humans as having five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste [...]
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