Eric Berne: Games People Play
A seminal, very useful book is turning 50 this coming year. Published in 1964, and the best selling non-fiction book of the 1960s, Games People Play by Dr. Eric Berne introduced Transactional Analysis, which looked closely at human relationships. He opted to study interaction as transaction, since he said we communicate to get something out […]
GoldieBlox: Engineering toys for girls
GoldieBlox is an engineering toy developed for girls by Debbie Sterling. Kept in “girlish” colors and materials, it comes with a storybook telling of heroine Goldie and her friends, and how Goldie gets them through their adventures by engineering solutions. The story is accompanied by a platform where the children can reconstruct her building designs. […]
Question: What’s your earliest memory?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/earliestmemory.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThink back to the earliest thing you can remember: Where were you? What were your surroundings like? What do you remember most about the situation? Were you doing anything? Did you see, smell, taste, hear, feel anything? How did you feel about yourself and the world around you? Can […]
Be have!
Children make funny mistakes as they learn to speak, and English native speakers are no exception. From David Crystal’s blog: A correspondent writes with a nice child language story. While in a supermarket she heard an exasperated mother say to her child: “Will – you – be – have!” To which the child replied: “But […]
