This Elementary School Classroom for Parents Has Dramatically Improved How Kids (and Adults) Thrive
When these parents and their youngsters go to their own elementary school classrooms, it has a dramatic impact on how they thrive.
When these parents and their youngsters go to their own elementary school classrooms, it has a dramatic impact on how they thrive.
There are plenty of modern words and slang terms that have been added to dictionaries - but not the word for building international peace.
It takes very little effort to write a letter of encouragement to someone who many need it - which is why this charity is asking you to write one too.
This new study says that expressing gratitude is better for everyone – but our self-consciousness consistently gets in the way of us doing it.
One month ago, Leena Ali and Dawn Burke were total strangers - but an accidental text brought them together in an emotional way.
Instead of ostracizing their deaf residents, this little village made up their own form of sign language so everyone could communicate.
As a means of having a conversation with their friendly little neighbor, this entire community is learning sign language.
This new survey asked 2,000 Americans when it was appropriate to use slang and which words might be the most irksome to hear.
An app that is being called "Instagram for Prisons" allows families to stay in connect with inmates simply by taking a cell phone picture.
Commuters in a Chicago area train station were asked to participate in an experiment. Instead of remaining isolated, like most commuters do, they agreed to talk to the stranger next to them. Cy the end of the train ride, commuters who talked to a person nearby reported having a more positive experience than those who had sat in solitude.
A series of funny TV ads produced by Ameriquest clearly demonstrate why it is not a good idea to judge our fellow human beings too quickly. Situations are often not what they seem. Humor makes the point so very well in these clever ads.
You can still see more than 10,000 coin-operated phones around New York City today. What seems a relic of the past in this age of mobile technology, became a vital link in an emergency for those who had no power to charge their devices during Hurricane Sandy. Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a design contest to reinvent the lowly payphone and bring it into the 21st Century.
Beginning next year, New York will replace the city's pay phone booths with 10,000 new wi-fi kiosks that can connect 250 devices to the internet simultaneously. They will feature keypads to make calls on, charging stations and tablets with connecting speeds 20 times faster than the average home.
Two days after 9-11, the German ship approached. It was flying an American flag at half-mast. They had made a sign to display on the side that read, We Stand By You. The entire crew was manning the rails, saluting, in their dress blues.
I recommended to a self-help group of inmates at a Louisiana prison in DeQuincy that they start a Toastmasters club in the prison. Out of 60 inmate Toastmasters who had been released from prison from 1986-1991, not one had been re-arrested.
Have you ever wanted to take back an inappropriate or embarrassing text message? There's an app for that.
New research suggests that apes have the ability to perform behaviors that require vocal and breathing control and may have the ability to develop speech.
Reachi, a communication device soon to be in the hands of the Filipino Red Cross, can help emergency responders stay in touch even when cell signals are down.
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