by Ari Yares | Jun 21, 2017 | The Innovative Dad
In our home this week, it’s the dreaded week between the end of school and the start of camp which seems to coincide each year with the inability of the adults in the household to be out of the office at the same time. So, instead, we’re taking turns running what my...
by Ari Yares | May 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Curious about special education and how eligibility works? Please check out my featured guest article on the website Our Parenting Spot.
by Ari Yares | Mar 20, 2017 | The Innovative Dad
Have you ever thought about how often you praise your child? Do you start their day with a positive comment? What is your first interaction of the morning like? The head of school for my first job as an administrator used to stand outside the building at carpool and...
by Ari Yares | Mar 14, 2017 | The Innovative Dad
In the last few days, I’ve seen more than a handful of #ParentingFails scroll by as I read my Facebook and Twitter feeds. For the most part, they aren’t that severe: missed appointments, forgotten lunches, and the occasional I could have handled my kid better. While...
by Ari Yares | Feb 27, 2017 | The Innovative Dad
“Mom! Johnny is doing [fill in the black with an obnoxious activity]!” Nobody likes a tattletale. Yet, it is a difficult behavior to extinguish in our children and often we’re not even sure that we want to eliminate it. After all, we want our children to develop the...
by Ari Yares | Feb 20, 2017 | Design Thinking, The Innovative Dad
One of the best lessons that I learned in graduate school was to ask myself the question, “Do you want to die on that hill?” My advisor would pose that question when it seemed like we were putting on our armor to tilt at a windmill just like Don Quixote. He would...
by Ari Yares | Feb 13, 2017 | The Innovative Dad
I have a three-year-old at home, so we have a lot of interactions that go like this: “Please [insert age-appropriate, reasonable request].” “Why?” “Because [insert age-appropriate explanation].” “Why?” It keeps going until his curiosity is satiated, he feels like...
by Ari Yares | Feb 6, 2017 | School Psychology, The Innovative Dad
There is a lot of talk about executive functioning and it has nothing to do with how well the CEO of a company is doing. Instead, executive functioning (EF for short) is how your brain manages the resources that it has to work with. You can think of EF as the manager...
by Ari Yares | Jan 30, 2017 | Design Thinking
On a recent family trip, we visited a pretzel factory (many of our family vacations involve touring food factories) where I learned two interesting things about the classic hard pretzel. First, it’s a relatively new innovation. All pretzels were soft pretzels...
by Ari Yares | Jan 23, 2017 | The Innovative Dad
I hate driving carpool. There. I’ve finally said something that we are all thinking. Shlepping your own kids around town can be painful enough, but when you throw in two or three of their friends, it can be a downright miserable experience. And, yes, I’ve wanted to...
