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Family Dinners Improve Kids' Grades and Happiness

Family Dinners Improve Kids' Grades and Happiness

Research indicates that eating communally as a family unit is becoming less and less common, especially in the US. Only 30% of American families share meals regularly and the average family shares a meal less than five days a week.

A 5-Step Guide to Emotional Agility for Kids

A 5-Step Guide to Emotional Agility for Kids

Susan David, Harvard Medical School Psychologist and bestselling author of Emotional Agility, describes the concept as the ability to mindfully navigate positive and negative emotions.

Fear-Setting: A Stress Management Tool for Kids

Fear-Setting: A Stress Management Tool for Kids

Fear-setting is an extremely helpful tool for adults and children alike to learn to identify their fears and to separate what can be controlled from what cannot. By focusing on what is in our control, and taking action, we can decrease emotional reactivity and stress.

How Trying Different Hobbies Can Benefit Your Kids

How Trying Different Hobbies Can Benefit Your Kids

It has long been debated whether early specialization or sampling (allowing children to try an array of hobbies and sports) is more effective in setting kids up for success in any given area. Angela Duckworth explains that “young people thrive when given the freedom to explore a wide array of interests without an obligation to stick with any of them.”

Dealing with a Bored Kid? It's Actually Good for Their Brain!

Dealing with a Bored Kid? It's Actually Good for Their Brain!

Boredom has an evolutionary purpose and is critical for brain health. A Northeastern University study found that during periods of mind-wandering, our brain networks are more active than ever. "Virtually the whole brain was involved", said Kuyci. So what are our brains doing while we are bored and why should we start embracing boredom?

 Believe It or Not, Stress Can Be Positive for Your Child

Believe It or Not, Stress Can Be Positive for Your Child

How we respond to stress and anxiety gives us a degree of control over how we allow it to affect us and alter our well-being. This is thanks to neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to change. We can transform anxiety into something useful by changing our thinking and taking practical steps to work through anxiety rather than avoid it.

Cold Showers Are Good For You and Your Kids

Cold Showers Are Good For You and Your Kids

When our body is exposed to cold, a stress response is triggered and as a result a cocktail of neurochemicals. These neurochemicals are responsible for initiating, directing, and sustaining focus. Cold exposure has a significant effect on cognitive performance, specifically in terms of enhancing focus and attention.

Habits & Behavior
Study Skills
Deep Play Helps Teenagers Learn

Deep Play Helps Teenagers Learn

Play is inherently fun, but serves a far greater evolutionary purpose than just entertainment. That's why the act of play activates the nucleus accumbens - the reward center of the brain. Its by-products, learning, creativity, social connection, and problem-solving, were critical to the evolution of our ancestors.

Study Skills for High Schoolers – Mastering Note-Taking

Study Skills for High Schoolers – Mastering Note-Taking

Effective study strategies and tools are vital to supporting high schoolers in their learning, focus, and understanding of their school subjects. There are many study strategies worth trying, each with its own unique benefits.

Try 'Deep Focus' to Help Your ADHD Child Focus

Try 'Deep Focus' to Help Your ADHD Child Focus

When it comes to attention spans, teenagers have it even worse than us. The average teenager has an attention span of approximately 35 minutes. Pre-teens, younger children, and those with ADHD have even less than that. This is why hours of studying or homework, without structure or breaks, are rarely successful or sustainable.

How Meditation Boosts Creativity and Focus in Kids

How Meditation Boosts Creativity and Focus in Kids

A 2019 study found that high-school students who practiced meditation had greater attention spans than those who did not. Another study led by Patricia Broderick, Assistant Research Professor at Penn State University, highlighted the effect of meditation and mindfulness on the well-being of adolescents.

 3 Tips to Help Your Child Focus on Homework

3 Tips to Help Your Child Focus on Homework

Adolescents (ages 10 to 19 years) are at an age where their brains are primed to learn and take in information rapidly, but their brains are also incredibly prone to distraction. By understanding why kids are so easily distracted, we can better assist them in achieving focus and harnessing their brains’ learning superpowers!

Metacognition: Reflective Learning Can Help Kids Perform Better

Metacognition: Reflective Learning Can Help Kids Perform Better

In 1928, Margaret Mead, an American Cultural Anthropologist, was famously reported saying, "Children should be taught how to think, and not what to think." It turns out she was way ahead of her time and was already tapping into a theory that educational psychologists would later term 'Metacognition'.

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