Youcubed.org was formed by an award-winning Stanford Math professor to give teachers, parents and students the resources they need to excite students about mathematics. They have devoted a link in their website to fun Math tasks that make at-home-school a little more engaging, if you feel like the Math by Zoom is less than inspiring for your children. Youcubed.org at Home - Math Tasks that Excite Please visit other BP Home Base content with 5 categories of interest. Feel free to adapt and share with other team members or customers.
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4 Ways to Help Your Anxious Kid(s) Simple things like learning to breathe really work for almost any age kid. The professionals interviewed for this article discuss 4 ways parents can help anxious kids during Covid-19. They suggest we first acknowledge what is happening, then resolve our own anxiety, give kids mindfulness tools (age appropriate), and create a schedule with pictures. My college student still uses deep breathing exercises that we taught him as a 5 year old. It is a remarkably simple tool for attaining a sense of calm and well-and it works for parents too!…
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We want to share some resources to help you with Marketing challenges during the Covid-19 disruption. The BDX webinar, Podcast and Burns Consulting pieces below were published in the last two weeks and share fresh perspectives on the New Home Buyer consumer within the context of Covid-19. The IBS Show was in January. What is relevant now? 100+ sessions to choose from and get inspiration and perhaps some perspective while you are working-from-home, in the link below. If your company attended you have a complimentary subscription to this content for a year. Ask about this and get access! And…
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Book Reviews by Age, by Common Sense Media Stories have the power to calm us, to entertain us and to take us on journeys for hours at a time. Reading may just be the key to getting some time to focus on your work while you are home with kids. Common Sense Media is a wealth of information about all things kids media, including age appropriate reading. This must-have resource link provides an interactive age selector and book titles with reviews for the age you have selected. When kids are little it seems like we read the same…
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Full disclosure, I am in a dual career couple marriage and my business partner happens to also be my life partner and husband. We have been at this for 20+ years. We don't typically lead with that fact because we want our clients to know our brand and culture, not our marital status. Our corporation is more than competent to bring solutions to very large brands who depend on us to manage their brand compliance. What does it matter that we fell into working as business partners and we happen to be married? It doesn't. It's not easy. Most of…
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I have been working remotely on and off for many years. It so happens that I am in an office currently but have been working at home again during this health crisis. I have gone back to a few bad habits which included skipping lunch. This is a surprisingly common habit among remote workers. For that reason we are sharing simple lunch ideas to refuel for that afternoon Zoom Conference meeting. Our ideas are brought to you by the largest social media food platform on the planet - Buzzfeed's Tasty Brand. Beloved by digital natives and Millennials, Tasty provides fast…
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Music can calm us while we get through a stressful workday, focus us to help finish a project, propel us to work that extra hour or two when we are less motivated, and perhaps most important, it can filter out the "noise" of your new office where ever it may be. These are playlists along the theme of work focus and productivity from Spotify Music. Morning Coffee House Chill Instrumental for Work and Study Focus - Peaceful Piano Lo-Fi Beats Brain Food (hypnotic electronic) Morning Classical - (uplifting) Classical Focus Have a Great Day - feel good timelessly fun songs…
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One way to focus and filter out household sounds while you work at home is with music. But how does music influence you. Does it distract? Does it Focus? Does it make you happy/sad? Thrive Global unlocks the science behind music and its ability to boost productivity and focus. Seems like a no-brainer for anyone new to Work-From-Home, so we are featuring it here at BP Home Base. Check out our other post in this category for actual links to premade work playlists. Music Boosts Productivity - A short Summary of…
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Top Five Free Meditation Apps Worthy of Your Attention Full disclosure, my idea of a meditation is 10 minutes with the "Calm App" ($60/annual fee), in the morning before work and previously at lunch in my car. I try to be consistent. That's about all I can do because I find it hard to sit still. However, after that 10 minutes, I feel like I've been on a mini-vacay. It's miraculous. So I'm a fan of the mainstreaming of Meditation. And I love that there are so many top of the line FREE apps. For me this small meditation…
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Top At Home Streaming Exercise Services In all the work at home reading I've been doing, schedules, consistency and exercise are constant themes. Our county parks and beaches were closed as of today. People cannot seem to keep their physical distance while enjoying the great outdoors. Now our local trails are closed as well. What to do? Streaming services provide a schedule for your workout and a trainer to take you through it on a daily basis. If you cannot work out with your exercise buddy, this is one way to create a commitment you must keep. The…
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