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Marla Szwast is a freelance writer living in Marietta, GA with her husband, six kids, two dogs, cat, and bird. You can follow her on Medium for content on education, parenting, writing, and health. (With an occasional poem thrown in, because everything good starts with a poem.) Published regularly in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine she has also written ghost blogs for companies in the health and education industries in addition to having written curriculum published online through www.schoolhouseteachers.com for elementary kids in the topics of modern history and earth science.
Whether you are homeschooling, your teen or they attend public or private school, personal finance is rarely covered in a typical curriculum. It is up to you, the parent, to make sure you are teaching your teens the personal finance skills they will need to be successful adults.
Published Spring 2020 in The Old Schoolhouse is the premier, quarterly homeschooling magazine, worldwide! Packed full of encouraging and informative content, TOS brings you the
Summer 2019 The Old Schoolhouse is the premier, quarterly homeschooling magazine, worldwide! Packed full of encouraging and informative content, TOS brings you the
The Salty Truth: Episode 6: How Eating Salt Can Keep Your Reward System in Normal Mode Our body has an amazing built-in salt thermostat. When we need more salt we crave it and when we don't need more, we don't want it. Without enough salt, we die. Sugar is a different beast.
Fall 2018 The Old Schoolhouse is the premier, quarterly homeschooling magazine, worldwide! Packed full of encouraging and informative content, TOS brings you the biggest names in homeschooling all in one place.
Which Part of Our Mind is Not Creative? I was excited to find that Jeff Hawkins touched on the topic of creativity in his book On Intelligence. I think creativity is often highly misunderstood in our current culture. We think doing anything differently than it has been done before is creative.
When animals were deprived of dopamine, they stopped eating, if dopamine was not injected into their brains, they died of starvation, they simply did not have enough motivation to eat. (Nora Volkow, video link later in article) Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which is a chemical released by neurons in order to communicate with other neurons.
Fall 2017 The Old Schoolhouse is the premier, quarterly homeschooling magazine, worldwide! Packed full of encouraging and informative content, TOS brings you the biggest names in homeschooling all in one place.