Dandelion Learning

Summer Scoops It started out as an idea from last year.  We'll go to a variety of ice cream parlors and decide who has the best ice cream of the summer.   A whole summer passed without organizing one ice cream trip.   This May, at the end of our school year we decided to resurrect the ice cream idea.  Over Facebook we decided on a day and time to meet.  We even found an Ohio Guide to Ice Cream to start us off.   To see that guide click  Ohio Ice Cream Trail . We planned to start our own ice cream study today!  When we arrived we each decided what we would get.  Some people, like my daughter, planned to get the same flavor at each place.   Emi wants to find the best Mint Chocolate Chip, for example.   My seven year old is on a mission to find the most unique flavor.  He is eating "Play Doh", which is vanilla ice cream with chunks of sugar cookie in a waffle cone b...

Entitled Adults May Be Our Fault... Did you realize that we have an entire generation of adults who want a prize for just about everything?  Yep... they arrived at work... so.... what will you give them?  No, their salary isn't enough... this is a generation of people who want to know what they're going to get for doing more.  Working hard and actually caring about their work is not what drives them.  Instead, external motivators are what they desire.  A bonus, something free, a reward! Well, most people agree that entitled adults are not desirable in society, let alone the workplace.  We don't want these kinds of people working with us or for us.  We WANT employees who WANT to do well for themselves and for the company.  They may stay late or come in early, but not for anything from the employer.  Instead, they have intrinsic motivation or a desire to do well, to succeed, or to feel good about what they do.  This is why research has...