by Ari Yares | Feb 27, 2017 | The Innovative Dad Blog
“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 Blog
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 Blog
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 | Executive Functioning, School Psychology, The Innovative Dad Blog, Video
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...
