*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. A new lab study finds that children who had recently been exposed to a violent video game were more likely to point and “shoot” a real (disabled) gun toward themselves or another child after discovering it in a cabinet, compared to kids who had…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. While financial education stresses the importance of earning and saving, new research shows that one of the most valuable lessons parents can teach their children about money is how to appropriately give it away. Led by University of Arizona researcher Ashley LeBaron, the study…
Summer Thanksgiving! Read Ephesians 1:3-23. (You may choose to read fewer verses if your children are very young.) As Christians, we get to experience the benefits of being a child of God including forgiveness and the hope for eternal life. Our Heavenly Father longs for a deep and intimate relationship with His children. That is…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on The Washington Post. Four out of five teenagers with mobile devices keep them in their rooms overnight — and nearly a third of those bring them into their beds while sleeping — according a study Wednesday that offered new evidence that mobile devices undermine the…
Trending Today on Twitter – 5/31/19 1. #FridayThoughts 2. #FridayMotivation 3. Walt Whitman 4. #NationalSmileDay 5. #ResignOrBeImpeached 6. #powertrip 7. Thomas Rhett 8. Paul Nehlen 9. National Spelling Bee 10. Tower Records Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 5/31/19 1. Spelling Bee 2. The Dark Crystal 3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Ma…
Making summer magical for our kids with special needs sounds like a worthy goal, doesn’t it? But many parents dread the arrival of summer for legitimate reasons. It’s hard to navigate the tricky bits of summer: find day care, keep kids busy all day long, and stretch dollars to pay for summer fun. It’s also…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. Teens who experience cyberbullying are more likely to suffer from poor sleep, which in turn raises levels of depression, according to a new study. For the study, researchers at the University at Buffalo surveyed more than 800 adolescents for sleep quality, cyber aggression, and…
The Only Way Items Needed: A ticket or invitation to a special family event for each person in the family. Each person must have a unique ticket with his or her name on it. Pass out the tickets and describe the event. (Family outing, special dessert night, vacation, etc.) The only way to get this…
Have you ever been heartbroken at the extra pain and the struggles your child is facing? I get it. Doing everything you can for your child, wanting to be able to do more. The helplessness, the weariness from always pushing, always looking, always being on. Viktor Frankl survived four concentration camps in the Holocaust and…
Everything I’ve learned about the developing teenage brain has been quite liberating for me. It’s been liberating as a journey in self-discovery. You see, if the brain is not fully wired-up until about the age of 25, then that offers me at least some sort of explanation for much of my confusing and now-embarrassing adolescent…