Keeping kids engaged in "brain work" during the summer months is important to year-long success in school...

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This important information from a retiring educator and colleague of mine provides parents with helpful and useful resources designed to keep our kids engaged in "brain work" during the summer months (information is being provided to our LifelineExtensions.blog readers verbatim):

"Entertaining Educational Resources Key to Keep Kids Learning throughout the Summer"

With the school year ending, many parents are starting their annual search for fun educational resources to keep their children learning throughout the summer months.

To help, Verizon Thinkfinity (http://www.thinkfinity.org/) has added a new Summer Learning feature.  From rhyming poems and songs for the early elementary school set, to tips to help teens write a children’s picture storybook, Thinkfinity Content Partner ReadWriteThink has created a robust summer learning feature to keep kids excited about learning.

Thinkfinity also offers parents and care providers free webinars to help them make the most of all the free resources available on Verizon Thinkfinity.  Visit the Professional Development section on Thinkfinity.org for a complete list of general audience and educator webinars.

Join the new Thinkfinity Community to see what others are saying -- and what they’re doing to make the most of Thinkfinity resources all year long.

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HAPPY SUMMER!

Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader & school district administrator who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc.  This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog.  View other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.  Contact Sharon directly for more information: smbiggs@mylifelinefoundation.org.

"Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)

We cannot underestimate the power of subconscious thoughts

There may be times when we feel overcome by certain emotions and cannot explain why.

Some would argue that biologically and psychologically speaking, the subconscious level of our thought process has taken over in these instances.

One example might be after the loss of a loved one when we find ourselves in settings or situations that subconsciously trigger thoughts about that person, and before we know it, we begin feeling inexplicably weepy and deeply saddened.

It is in those times we may subconsciously be reminiscing or reflecting about how much fun we used to have with our loved one in that particular environment; and experiencing sudden reminders about the void that has been left by the loved one’s passing.

Or, if we are feeling and behaving completely positively and all things around us seem to be on the upswing; but then we instantly start to feel, look, and act negatively and sour; the strong subconscious layer of our reflections may very well be at work.

Likewise, everything around us may appear to be falling apart, yet just like "the little engine that could," we deliberately and with unwavering determination decide to think, speak, and act positively despite what is going on or being said around or about us.

This is another example of when our subconscious may once again be pressing through to take control of situations in the world around us.

Scholars such as Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Pierre Janet spent much of their lives studying and writing about the mind’s tiered levels and their powers.

Discussion is also offered by students of the mind who may be considered less traditional in their approaches.

Regardless of the camp of thinkers and students we choose to journey through life agreeing with, we cannot underestimate the power of our subconscious thoughts when it comes to getting out of life what we want to; or not getting out of life what we think we cannot ever attain.

Seemingly, whatever we spend our days thinking about will drive our actions, accordingly.

Moreover, opinions given by members of both groups of mind students appears to be that the subconscious level of the mind offers us a powerful tool to tap into as a resource to aid us in deciding which set of reflective lenses we will determine to wear through life:

Rose-colored positive lenses that allow us to think, see and experience the glass half-full, or gloom & doom negative lenses that tend to lead us to think, see and experience the glass half-empty.

Which lenses will our minds lead us to choose? What do you think?

Sharon M. Biggs, M.A., is a wife, mother, and 21st Century educational leader & school district administrator who serves as Co-Chair & President of Lifeline Foundation, Inc.  This 24-year educator is also Founder, Editor, and Chief Writer of LifelineExtensions.blog.  View other published works at http://www.examiner.com/.  Contact Sharon directly for more information: smbiggs@mylifelinefoundation.org.

"Children are the globe's most precious commodity." (Terence H. Biggs, Jr. ~ 2009)