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Michele Borba Blog: Studies find play helps kids focus…& 11 other surprising benefits of letting kids get messy

Posted: April 23rd, 2010 by Michele Borba


Over the last few weeks I’ve been reviewing studies involving children and play. “Shocked” and “disturbed” are the best two words that describe how I feel when I read those reports. Every study has one conclusion: Good old-fashioned play is becoming an endangered pastime for today’s kids. Worse yet, play is not only disappearing from [...]



Michele Borba Blog: A secret of self-control parents must know. Research shows it’s key to kids’ success

Posted: February 21st, 2010 by Michele Borba


New research shows that children who can pass up a marshmallow are more likely to succeed as adults. But why? Here’s the secret every teacher and parent should know…

The Famous Marshmallow Test and Implications on Our Kids’ Later Success
In 1960, Walter Mischel, a psychologist at Stanford University, conducted the now famous Marshmallow Test. Mischel challenged a [...]



Michele Borba: 6 Surprising Changes That May Help #ADHD Kids in School

Posted: August 4th, 2009 by Michele Borba


Michele Borba, Ed.D.
REALITY CHECK  Reports say that Attention Deficit Disorder (or ADD) affects up to nine[ii] percent of school-age children, but even then the medical field fears that only half of those have been properly diagnosed. Parents currently spend[i] over one billion three hundred million each year on buying one of the three leading [...]