In the Freakonomics chapter entitled, “What Makes a Perfect Parent?” (I’ll be drawing on this from time to time), the authors make a series of interesting comparisons. They give us a series of factors and ask us to guess which have an effect on our child’s test scores in school, and which don’t. As usual [...]

Ways of Utilizing Piggy Bank Time
Once piggy bank time has been defined and located, it’s time to smash that piggy open! These are the main ways I take advantage of my piggy bank time:

MP3 player and podcasts - This is the silver bullet of piggy bank time. I have an iPod shuffle and it is [...]

Piggy Bank Time is Everywhere
The first step to using piggy bank time is finding it. Think of it as rummaging between the coach cushions and finding money you didn’t know you were quite literally sitting on.
Here’s some examples from a quasi-typical day in my life:

waiting in line at the supermarket, post office, bail bond agent’s, [...]

Piggy Bank Time is a concept coined by Vera Birkenbihl, a renown brain researcher, in her audio series Memory Optimizer. In short, piggy bank time is the moments you have throughout your day and week which are unharnessed but could be utilized to improve your memory… but not only.
What’s so good about Piggy Bank Time?
Have [...]

Intro
This is the first in what I hope will be an on-going series about how to maximize our efficiency as parents. I know what you’re thinking, “what on Earth does that even mean?”
Look at it this way: in the recent years there has been almost an explosion of personal productivity products onto the market. It [...]