Do you ever feel like a broken record, constantly reminding your kids to use their manners? Day after day, longing for the time when your children do as instructed without bribes, guilt or other forms of coercion? However, it takes only one time for your child to open a door for someone, give an unprompted thank-you, or place a napkin on their lap for you to beam with pride! Well, I found the reminding totally exhausting and frustrating, until I discovered a fun way to include my children ...

Every parent has faced that moment when their child gets frustrated and blurts out, D*@n it!, or some other unacceptable obscenity, and you know that you have no one to blame but yourself. No matter how hard we try to set a good example for our children, life happensor should I say S@%* happens. There are hundreds of children's books that teach good manners, and the like, but surprisingly, I was unable to find one children's book that dealt with the issue of cursing. At least, not any that...

Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice.A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. "Open development" can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human d...