Marla Szwast

Why Homeschool? History to Present Summer 2020

Year Round Homeschooling is Better for Brain and Life Balance

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

Homeschooling Multiple Ages and Grades: Teacher Tips

Summer 2019 The Old Schoolhouse is the premier, quarterly homeschooling magazine, worldwide! Packed full of encouraging and informative content, TOS brings you the

How Low-Salt Diets Give Fuel to Addictions

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.

STEM, STEAM, What do they Mean?

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.

Exploring Intelligence - Creative Minds - Marla Szwast - Medium

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.

Dopamine is not the Devil - Marla Szwast - Medium

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.

Do-It-Yourself Music Education

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.

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Thinking is Hard-How to Help Your Child Think

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it." - Henry Ford The first cognitive principal Daniel T. Willingham dives into in his book Why Students Don't Like School is that while curiosity is natural, thinking is hard.