Los Alamos Family Council

09/25/2025

The community skate-a-thon is right around the corner! Make sure you come and enjoy the fun!

08/20/2025

Do your kids get irritable when you tell them it's time to get off their screens?

Subscribe and listen online to the Screenagers Podcast from Filmmaker Delaney Ruston, looking at topics related to the impact of Screen Time on todays youth.

08/19/2025

Save the date!!!!

We are helping to host a community fundraiser! Get your skates and get some pledges!

07/01/2025

Help Boomtown understand how teenagers in Los Alamos spend their time outside of school.

06/19/2025

06/13/2025

American Red Cross
Babysitter's Training Course
June 21 & 22
Ages 11-16
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06/13/2025

American Red Cross
Babysitter's Training Course
June 21 & 22, Ages 11-16
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05/21/2025

Brain Rule #6: Remember to repeat.

Isn't this what we learned already? Only if you forgot that repetition helps convert short term memories into long term memories.

To make our long term memories more reliable, we must continually incorporate new information gradually and then repeat this information in timed intervals.

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05/19/2025

Los Alamos Uniting For Community Health At SALA May 19
https://ladailypost.com/los-alamos-uniting-for-community-health-at-sala-may-19/

05/19/2025

LACF News: The Los Alamos Community Foundation (LACF), in partnership with Anchorum Health Foundation and Christus St. Vincent, announces a distribution of $52,750 to five Los Alamos non-profit organizations addressing the needs of health and wellness in the community, with an emphasis on mental hea...

05/14/2025

Brain Rule #5: Repeat to remember

No discussion of the brain would be complete without details about memory. Medina points out that in order for researchers to assess memory, they ultimately measure recall.

Because of this, we know that we have multiple memory system in our brain. One uses a four stage process: encoding, storing, retrieving, and forgetting.

To strengthen our memories, particularly converting short term memories into long term memories, repetition is key to later recall.

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