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The new buzzword in the education industry is “micro learning.” Even though the term sounds relatively new to many, it has been around for decades. Experts believe that a student has an attention span of about 10-15 minutes. To be able to keep the attention of a student, effective teaching strategy is to “chunk” information into smaller pieces with recurrent but brief breaks. One of the primary reasons why micro learning is gaining so much popularity is because the concept makes it easy for the child to remember what they have been taught. The entire syllabus is segmented into smaller sections, helping them remember things more effectively in comparison to what they would remember if the classes were longer. Micro learning and our brain: Consider how children gather information outside of homeschooling . They get it in small snippets. They watch videos, access Facebook posts, Instagram, they talk to friends, check their emails, and the like. Everything is bombarded in...

Words have an incredible power of lifting us up and beating us down, wounding us or soothing us. Verbal abuse and aggression can be a part of friendship or an intimate relationship but it may also show up in case of children. Here’s the science behind what verbal abuse can do to your child. Verbal aggression can completely change the structure of the child’s developing brain. When a child is verbally abused, as a way to adapt to the negative enviroment, the child’s brain goes into survival mode, retooling itself so as to deal with deprivation and stress. Studies identify the most affected areas of the brain as the corpus callosum (accountable for transferring sensory, motor, and cognitive information between the brain hemispheres), the hippocampus (regulates emotions), and the frontal cortex (decision-making and thought creation). Another study suggests correlation between verbal abuse and alterations in the brain’s gray matter.  Verbal aggression has a greater ...