1. 09 August 2007

    484 days ago

    “BEE-yah!” my 18 month old daughter used to consistently squeal when excited. I was baffled, thinking it was only gibberish, until I heard several of her same-age daycare friends repeat the identical nonsensical phrase, as if some sort of secret toddler code. It would be months later that I would discover not only the meaning of her utterance, but a key approach to resourceful practicing. It dawned on me— the children were audiblizing something very close to what they were hearing, the word “Yippee!” They were just repeating it backwards, because at this stage of language development, their memory retained what they heard LAST.

    What I noticed later as her speech patterns matured over the succeeding months, was that she could learn multi-syllable words much faster if we taught her the last syllable first, and worked our way forward, “Community:” (Cum-mun-da-ditty…)

    Tee. (Tee)
    Nih-Tee (Nih-Tee)
    U-Nih-Tee (U-Nih-Tee)
    Cum-U-Nih-Tee (Cum-U-Nih-Tee)
    Community…

    The Regressive Method

  2. 22 March 2005

    1353 days ago

    Ken Kifer's Bike Pages -- bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor.

    Excellent site with all kinds of stuff relating to biking. Tips, tricks, essays and the like, and lots of it. Poor guy was killed a few years back by a drunk driver… Theres also all kinds of good stuff on his site.

    Kjell Olsen1353 days ago

  3. 10 February 2005

    1393 days ago

    Top 7 Tricks to Getting an Interview

    How to make your resume look better, and to get them to call you in for an interview. Also How to Write a Resume.

    via Kjell Olsen1393 days ago

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