Personal Development
Yoko Shinagawa
Three powerful steps to find your values, ...

This article talks about how to find your values, to clarify your vision, and to create a personal mission statement, and why your effectiveness as a parent will be boosted through taking those steps.

Three powerful steps to find your values, vision, and mission
My Life Story
Yoko Shinagawa
My Life Story – Part 1

This article tells the story about what brought me from a small town in northern Japan all the way to one of the most prestigious institutions in Japan and to IMF in Washington DC.

My Life Story – Part 1
Parenting
Yoko Shinagawa
Six reasons why fatherhood is hard

Fatherhood is wonderful and brings a lot of joy from the moment that they meet their children for the first time; however, today’s fathers are facing unique yet significant challenges that are not fully recognized even by their own family members. In this article, I discuss the challenges encountered by fathers.

Six reasons why fatherhood is hard
Yoko Shinagawa
Five Lessons I Learned from our International ...

International relocation gives us precious learning opportunities, although it entails challenges. In this article, I talk about positive aspects of our international relocation to Jordan, the challenges we faced, and how we turned those challenges into great learning opportunities.

Five Lessons I Learned from our International Relocation
Yoko Shinagawa
Why I launch a new project of posting my top 10 ...

Information gives you power. With knowledge, you can take control more on your destiny. But, it’s easy to say than done, as many parents (including me) are too busy to spend time acquiring essential information. Against this backdrop, I have decided to post pick my top 10 news and articles within a week that I believe convey essential information to me and my blog’s readers.

Why I launch a new project of posting my top 10 articles weekly

Top 10 essential and empowering articles for parents for July 8th-14th

Top 10 essential and empowering articles for parents for July 8th-14th

My Top 10 Articles for this week include how to enhance wellness (through art therapy, stress management, journaling); how to feed picker eaters; how to help children read better; why learning the US economy empowers parents; and how to talk to children about race and racism.

My Top 10 Articles for July 1st-7th

My Top 10 Articles for July 1st-7th

My Top 10 Articles for this week range from early childhood education addressing gender bias, the way to manage professional life, Google Map’s new feature aiming to improve public transportation trip, to central bank independence.

My Top 10 Articles for June 22nd-28th

My Top 10 Articles for June 22nd-28th

This post features a set of articles relating to child development, ranging from effective parenting style with love, discipline, or both; children in India not learning enough at school; a project aiming to boost Syrian refugee children’s potential; to the long-term adverse consequences that detained children at the US-Mexico border might endure.

My Top 10 Articles for June 7th-13th

My Top 10 Articles for June 7th-13th

Here are My Top 10 News and Articles that I found during June 7th-13th. I was particularly impressed with a “Factfulness” article on how we see the world (ranked number 2) which shows that we actually see the world with fear and biases especially on internet and that we need to enhance the way we view the world based on facts.

Six reasons why fatherhood is hard

Six reasons why fatherhood is hard

Fatherhood is wonderful and brings a lot of joy from the moment that they meet their children for the first time; however, today’s fathers are facing unique yet significant challenges that are not fully recognized even by their own family members. In this article, I discuss the challenges encountered by fathers.

My top 10 news and articles for May 31st-June 6th

My top 10 news and articles for May 31st-June 6th

My top 10 articles for May 31st-June 6th under my project of posting top 10 articles every week. This week’s articles include food how technology enhance the effectiveness of supply chain; how to deal with teenage girls’ anxiety; and how Africa can catch up in the era of globalization.

My Top 10 Articles for May 10th-16th

My Top 10 Articles for May 10th-16th

My Top 10 Article for the week of May 10th - 16th. I picked 10 articles that I believe convey essential information for parents or anyone who care about the next generation, ranging from fake news, sustainable seafood, to Artificial Intelligence.

Why I launch a new project of posting my top 10 articles weekly

Why I launch a new project of posting my top 10 articles weekly

Information gives you power. With knowledge, you can take control more on your destiny. But, it’s easy to say than done, as many parents (including me) are too busy to spend time acquiring essential information. Against this backdrop, I have decided to post pick my top 10 news and articles within a week that I believe convey essential information to me and my blog’s readers.

Why Factfulness helps everyone – including parents and children

Why Factfulness helps everyone – including parents and children

Factfulness is the act of seeing things based on facts and data. The world in general has much progressing if you see facts, according to the book titled “Factfulness,” written by Hans Rosling, a Swedish medical doctor. Learning the concept of Factfulness benefits parents and children in particular.