TKG SCIENCE: Your early life stress can reprogram your kid’s DNA?!

by Gwen Dewar, Ph.D. ParentingScience.com Years ago, it would have been science fiction. You get diabetes because your grandfather didn’t get enough to eat as a child? You suffer from clinical anxiety because your father was a stressed-out teenager? But thanks to the study of epigenetics, these scenarios have become …

TKG SUMMER BOOK SALE – Torrance Farmers Market, Tomorrow

TOMORROW – Saturday August 4th! TKG will be hosting one of our world famous book sales at the Torrance Farmers Market beginning at 9am.  Come early because we  have children’s, cooking, gardening, art and best-seller fiction.  Non-fiction, reference, limited edition also available. Book and Cash Donations will also be accepted …

ONLINE Broadcast – Sir Ken Robinson Keynotes AERO Conference 2012

The AERO conference Keynotes are being broadcast on USTREAM.  It all started with  is Naomi Aldort on Thursday night. Tonight (Friday) will be Sir Ken Robinson’s talk titled “Transforming Education” at 6:30pm PDT. Saturday night, the keynote by Jerry Mintz & Occupy Portland will be livestreamed at about 7:15pm PDT …

FROM UNDER OUR BIG TREE: Week 35

The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 9 June 2012 Week 35: Highlights & Important Information “Look beyond methods, though, and consider goals. What’s the point of educating students in the first place?…we have reason to worry when schooling is discussed primarily in the context of “global competitiveness” rather …

FROM UNDER OUR BIG TREE: Week 34

The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 2 June 2012 Week 34: Highlights & Important Information “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry JamesThis week was all about… Reading Library Time: Where The Sidewalk Ends is …