The power of journaling to boost well-being has been proven about a million times over, but the studies bearing out its benefits tend to focus on notebooks that are kept to oneself. Pouring your heart out on the page and then passing it around to strangers isn’t commonly recommended by mental health professionals, but thanks […]
The end of year lends itself to a lot of reviewing. We tend to look back at the past 12 months and quantitatively evaluate them: I visited this many state parks, I binged this many TV shows. But now is also as good a time as any to look back at your life as a
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Beauty by Jenna’s all-natural lip balms, with their brightly colored packaging and scrumptious flavors, do more than just moisturize — they also provide jobs for people on the autism spectrum. That’s the motivation behind the cosmetics company founded by Jenna Grabow and Anna Lundmark. And the first person for whom the brand helped find employment
Every generation, new philosophies emerge to help parents raise happy, well-adjusted children, from authoritative parenting in the 1960s to attachment parenting in the ’90s and the more recent gentle parenting, practiced by scores of millennial moms and dads. But according to a significant body of research, there’s one aspect of child-rearing that truly sets kids
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“It takes a village” is a time-tested proverb that underscores the importance of community when it comes to raising children. But what those villages actually look like is changing for many modern families, according to a recent survey conducted on behalf of The Goddard School, a network of early childhood learning centers. Out of 2,000
Across the United States, people are struggling to find homes they can afford. Also throughout the country, an abundance of retail space is sitting empty. A rising real estate trend could make a dent in both problems: turning abandoned malls and shopping centers into affordable housing. Though plenty of malls still see action (anyone else
Go to any movie theater, sports venue, or airport, and it’s obvious there’s an intangible bond that forms from laughing, crying, and simply feeling while brushing shoulders with others. Research has long backed up this sense of connection, but some aspects of the phenomenon remained unclear. Now, a new study is offering insight. The results
It’s Spina Bifida Awareness Month, the perfect time to spotlight two young athletes who haven’t let their diagnoses hold them back: Meet Liam, 12, and Mohammad, 14. Born in Syria, Mohammad immigrated to the United States with his family and began receiving treatment at Shriners Children’s Northern California. The Sacramento resident developed a passion for
The wellness industry is replete with experts who counsel by giving directives: Do this, eat that, and so on and so forth. Author Case Kenny takes a different approach to the idea of self-help. The mindfulness proponent and host of the podcast New Mindset, Who Dis? leads by example, leaning into the self aspect by
In the late 1980s and into the ’90s, TV commercials for Hooked on Phonics were hard to miss. Though the method for teaching kids to read has largely fallen out of fashion, a new approach that draws on some of its tennents is showing promise across the country. The increased adoption of the new curriculum,
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