*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. New research finds that chronic bullying is related to lower academic achievement, a dislike of school, and low confidence by students in their own academic abilities. Investigators tracked hundreds of children from kindergarten through high school and found that nearly a quarter of kids…
Psst! Did you hear about Emily and Olivia? Oh my gosh! They had the biggest fight ever. And Ryan started the whole thing! Everybody’s talking about it! And so goes the story heard round the school. Measly kid stuff . . . unless you’re Emily. You lucky parents better be all ears and…
We’ve been talking about it for a couple of decades for the simple reason that far too many kids are doing it. “It” is self-injury. I’ve blogged on it on numerous occasions. Our good friend Marv Penner has become a renowned expert on it. Marv has written a helpful book and is leading seminars on…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on TechCrunch. Researchers have found that “moderate” screen use “has no detectable link to well-being and levels of engagement.” This means your kids can play on the iPad for a few hours — but not all of them. The study, led by psychological scientist…
Splink 1: Know the Way Make a matching game with simple truths about God’s way of salvation from sin. Get out the crayons and 16 post-it notes. Give each child two post-it notes and assign them an item to draw on the sticky side of both notes (the item is in italics in…
Trending Today on Twitter – 1/27/17 1. #MarchForLife 2. #ITakeMyCoffeeWith 3. #AusOpen2017 4. #FlashbackFriday 5. #BoycottUber 6. Gregg Phillips 7. But the Lord 8. The Bannon 9. Briley Parkway 10. The Politics of Cowardice Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 1/27/17 1. March for Life 2. Mischa Barton 3. Mike Connors 4. Rajon…
Apparently anxiety was a problem way back when Time Magazine ran this cover in 1961. The covered featured the now-familiar Edvard Munch painting known as “The Scream.” Interestingly enough, Munch painted this way back in 1893. I guess that proves that paralyzing and scream-inducing anxiety has been around for quite some time. Reading the Old…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on MediaPost. According to a new study, most parents allow their children to take their Internet-connected devices to bed, but most also put a limit on how much time their children can spend using those devices per day. The study, conducted by OnePoll for Intel…
Early this morning I was reading in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5, about a distraught father named Jairus. As I pondered his two-sentence urgency-filled request to Jesus I kept thinking about kids today. Jairus said to Jesus, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on HealthDay. The professor may be lecturing, but too often college students aren’t listening: They’re using their laptops to surf the Internet instead. Now, new research finds that all that distraction in the classroom may mean poorer grades for students. The research…