Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Mandie Shean
Some Australian students are reportedly shunning Year 12 exams in favour of more favourable, and less stressful, pathways to finishing school.
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- Written by: Joel Michael Reynolds
The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor people’s movement, health, mindfulness, sleep, eating habits and even sexual activity.
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- Written by: Carol Clark, Emory University
Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at age 4, a new study finds.
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- Written by: Shauna Tominey
Warm, nurturing messages need repeating over and over again with our children.
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- Written by: Alexandria Weaver
Imagine listening to your favorite song, how it makes you feel, and the flood of memories the sounds bring with them.
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- Written by: Gerry Everding
Pregnant women who use cannabis may slightly increase the risk their child will develop psychosis later in life, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Matt Swayne
While most first-year college students in a new study had positive feelings about computing and computer-related majors and jobs, gender and socioeconomic status seemed to play a role in whether parents shaped those perceptions.
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- Written by: Maureen Healy
Children are learning how emotions work, what to do with the challenging ones and how to create helpful ones, and the power of paying attention to their bodies and feelings in becoming emotionally healthy.
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- Written by: Sobonfu E.Somé
In Africa, it is understood that children hold the knowledge and gifts that ensure the survival of the village and the tribe. In essence, the child is the king of the village. Children complete the community! When a child walks into...
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- Written by: Gerry Everding
Kids who have more conflict with their mothers while in the early years of elementary school may find it more difficult to find a sense of purpose as adults, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Hermes Rivera Jade Bilardi, et al
So your friend decides to forget the “12 week rule” and tells her family and social networks she is pregnant.
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- Written by: Jackson Holtz
Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Maureen Healy
Our children feel things deeply, including surprise, delight, disgust, anger, frustration, revenge, jealousy, and enthusiasm. They often don’t even have the words to communicate their feelings, which is why they sometimes act them out inappropriately, but once they learn...
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- Written by: Jared Wadley
Improvisational theater training can reduce fearfulness and anxiety among teens struggling with social interactions, according to a new study.
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- Written by: James Urton
When school begins later, teens get more snooze time—and grades and attendance improve, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Laura Bailey
Don’t force an unremorseful kid to apologize until they’re truly sorry, new research suggests. The point of an apology—to express remorse and repair relationships—is lost because children may dislike the apologizer even more after the insincere apology than before.
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- Written by: Kim Eckart
New research shows how intensive instruction changes brain circuitry in struggling readers.
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- Written by: Jane Herbert and Elisabeth Duursma
We often hear about the benefits of reading storybooks at bedtime for promoting vocabulary, early literacy skills, and a good relationship with your child. But the experts haven’t been in your home, and your child requests the same book every single night, sometimes multiple times a night. You both know all the words by heart.
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- Written by: Sharon Goldfeld, et al
The international research is clear. Stimulating and positive environments early in life provide optimal foundations for children’s ongoing development into adulthood. This in turn makes a difference to the productivity of society at large. Communities are important environments in which young children grow and develop. There is limited research, however, on how communities can best influence early childhood development.
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- Written by: Annette Geffert and Diane Brown
Adolescence is an amazing time, filled with countless opportunities and challenges for your daughter. She is facing many of the decisions that will shape her adult life. To successfully handle these potentially life-altering situations, she needs a strong internal decision-making center.
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- Written by: Imogen Rehm and Judith Stevenson
Nail-biting, nose-picking, mouth-chewing, skin-picking, hair-pulling – we all do some of them, some of the time. Some normal grooming behaviours help maintain good hygiene (such as picking at a dirty finger nail) and appearance (plucking that pesky grey hair).
