Foundations Cognitive Schools
Hope, Healing, Growth, Success
It’s hard to believe that this is the very last day of 2021. Tomorrow, a whole new year begins. Some of us are ending this past year on a high, feeling energized by the things we’ve overcome and accomplished. Some of us are ending this past year wondering how we survived, feeling exhausted by the amount of energy it has taken to persevere through each day. Regardless of how you are ending 2021, I …
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Did you know that science has proven that there is a very simple ingredient to having a happier and healthier brain, and as a matter of fact, this simple ingredient can even make you live longer? It is so simple, actually, that you might even doubt how incredibly important this ingredient, or should I say mindset, is... Gratitude. I live with and care for a 95 year old woman with Alzheimer's …
Happy Friday Foundations Families and Friends! In place of our usual "Growth Mindset Friday" discussion, I would like to share with you a story of hope and healing. I recently received the following email from the parent of a Foundations "graduate" who is now attending 8th grade at a local public school: Hi Mrs. C.How are you doing? We sure do miss you guys. I wanted to reach out and send …
This week's Growth Mindset classroom discussions were on the truth about how incredibly special and unique we all are. One of my very favorite books - for people of ALL ages - is called "You Are Special" by Max Lucado. The book tells the story about a young man named Punchinello. In the town where he lives, all of the people carry around boxes of star stickers and gray dot stickers. When they …
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This week's Growth Mindset classroom discussion was about surviving "the dip." How many times in life have you gotten all excited about a new goal you have set for yourself - to lose weight, learn how to play an instrument or sport, learn a new language, to exercise more, to change a bad habit - only to find that a few days, weeks, or months into the process, you get so discouraged that you …
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