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  • I try not to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.Mikhail Baryshnikov

    We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.Chuck Palahniuk

    Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin

    An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb

    Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

    The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins

    Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

    The historian is a prophet in reverse.Friedrich von Schlegel

    Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson

    If you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else does.Anthony Robbins

    [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

    The mother's heart is the child's school-room. Henry Ward Beecher

    Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

    Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato

    The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. Sydney J. Harris

    It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

    That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell

    The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard

    An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Author Unknown

    Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

    Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant

    Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. Martin H. Fischer

    Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

    But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. Saki (H. H. Munro)

    There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff

    If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.William Blake

    The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. Author Unknown

    The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

    There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. Frank A. Clark

    The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

    You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw

    Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

    For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of harvest.The Talmud

    It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not... Albert Einstein

    Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.Mark Twain

    To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings

    Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep

    The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

    My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert Maynard Hutchins

    It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll

    One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert

    Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir

    Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. William B. Yeats

    The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.Ralph Waldo Emerson

    I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

    Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty

    You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

    If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren

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March 28, 2010

Increase Your Child’s Recall

Did you know that smelling peppermint could increase recall by 28%? That’s significant, especially if we could harness that power when our kids really need it, like during tests or recitals.*

I pulled out my peppermint when I was writing the thesis for my master herbalist program. It cleared my mind and helped me focus better.

You can just open the bottle and smell it, or you can put 3 drops in a little water in a diffuser like this.

One reason I love this is it's beautiful! It looks like a work of art!

This diffuser breaks up the molecules of the oil and sends it throughout the room. You can also put a few drops in a bowl of boiling water, it’s just not quite as effective.

My kids are getting older, and find themselves in more situations where they need to remember a good amount of information. I need an easy way for them to utilize peppermint.

I just found an affordable method. Some brilliant person discovered that clay holds the aroma of an essential oil for a whole day. They’ve created clay pendents on a necklace, which is the easiest thing I’ve found.

I’m going to buy a couple of them for my kids. You can too, here.

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Peppermint rubbed on the tummy (diluted) is great for bloating and digestion, too. If you want to get the purest (no joke!), strongest peppermint on the market, contact me or visit my Mom Essentials Store to order.

I’ve searched high and low for the best quality oils and found them at Doterra. Just smell them and you’ll know too.

*AromaTools has the research details.
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3 Comments

  1. I love good ideas like this! Thanks.

  2. Leah M says:

    I love using peppermint essential oil. My Chiropractor’s office shakes some on their air conditioner air filters so that it filters through the office. I now do the same! I just hope it doesn’t keep my kids awake at bedtime :) But my house smells good when I don’t want to use a diffuser.

    • Jenni says:

      I love that too! I bought a little car diffuser from Aroma Tools and I love using peppermint. It makes my car smells like mint chocolate…divine!

      It shouldn’t keep your kids awake. Peppermint does have a slight calming effect. I give my kids chamomile-peppermint tea at bedtime. Thanks for sharing!

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