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‘Make Something You Love’
This is the trademark phrase of Brooklyn Beta, a conference held in Brooklyn, NY each October. 2012 will be its third year. The phrase refers to the apps and web designs the majority of attendees spend their days creating. Some are just creating for clients but are still striving to affect the world in more […]
Music As Therapy
As adults some of us use music as our therapy. If we are lucky it is a daily occurrence, no matter if it’s playing an instrument, listening to a favourite CD or singing alone in the car (my preference!). It is intensely personal. I do not always find the music my husband plays in our […]
Critical Research! Wonderful News!
This is exciting, a developmental psychologist from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, suggests that babies as young as 6 months are lip readers. My daily work for 34 years has been to care for, observe and teach, babies from 6 weeks of age (from birth in the case of my own two sons!). […]
Emotions and Young Children
As adults we usually show a range of emotions. Having said that I realise that for most of my life I didn’t show a large range of emotions! But of course as we get older, and hopefully reflect on our own upbringing and its effect on our development, we should realise where some of our […]
How Do You Explain?
How do you explain to a mother that there’s a happier way to greet her daughter at the end of the day? How do you explain that her daughter has ‘fallen in love’ with a piece of music with video, that I play…every day…and that her daughter now ‘requests’ what I call “the pretty music” […]
UX (User Experience) For The Under-5’s And Their Teachers
For those of you who don’t know the term ‘UX’ means User Experience, something I feel I’ve long been aware of but never had a name for until my sons got into the world of the web many years ago. The phrase makes perfect sense once you think about it. I think about it most […]
A Fond Farewell
Steve Jobs…
You died nearly two months ago. I am still writing and storing these blog articles on a beloved iMac which is over 10 years old – thank you. In so many ways I haven’t moved with the times and yet thanks to Steve I have. I am fortunate to have one of the larger Macs […]
Prosody - A New Word For Me
I’ve taken the liberty of using this description from the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at Oregon Health and Science University. Prosody involves “…the melody, timing and intonation of speech, refers to the ‘how it is said’ not to the ‘what is said’ of language”. “We use prosody to convey meaning, intent and emotions. The […]
For All You 30-Something ‘Successful’ People
The time is coming. There is much you should be thinking about. Have you met the partner of your dreams? That’s great. If you haven’t don’t get desperate – I’ve seen what ‘desperate’ can do when they have to meet on matchdotcom and then ‘have’ to have a child because time is running out (By […]
Effects Of Pain And Trauma
From a personal viewpoint I still recall those teachers and family members who treated me with great kindness. I am fortunate that, by and large, my whole family was warm and caring, albeit sometimes emotionally reserved – typically English? I cannot say the same for the many teachers I’ve encountered in my lifetime.
It is only when […]