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“Television can be videotaped but children are best raised live and in person.” - Frank Sesno, Emmy award winning journalist and Dad of 3.  Also known as "Mr. Breakfast" (to his kids at least!) Will you go out with me? Will you marry me? Do you want to have kids? The questions we ask each other have the power to change the course of our lives forever.  In this interview with Frank Sesno, an Emmy award winning journalist and author of Ask More, we draw upon Frank’s experience as a father and an expert questioner to figure out how we can use...

Teaching math is easier than you think.  It can be as easy as counting on your fingers. Science shows that children who count on their fingers are better at mathematics.   This study reviewed in the Wall Street Journal demonstrates that counting on fingers provides a solid foundation to mathematics and leads, as renowned researcher Brian Butterworth proclaims, to children having normal representation of numbers in their brain. Why Does Finger Counting Matter? Research suggests that finger counting helps a child visualize numbers.  When a child is able to visually conceptualize numbers' quantity, the child thinks about numbers in a more comprehensive manner.  This means that...