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Video games cause parenting nightmares. Who hasn’t spent time tearing their child away from an Xbox- pleading with them to put the controller down and come to dinner? Video games equate to laziness for many, but new research shows video games can have benefits. One study reveals the benefits of a game called Re-Mission™ where [...]
Ever sit down to the table, devour your meal, and run off to the next activity? Amidst our busy lives full of rides to school, team carpools, and getting homework done, sometimes mealtime becomes just another necessary task on the list of to-dos. However, many parents have begun to re-think the importance of family mealtime [...]
On April 2, 2012, happiness had a leading role on the world stage: the United Nations held its Conference on Happiness at its headquarters in New York, and the first-ever World Happiness Report (commissioned by the UN) was published by Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The 158-page report aimed to review the state of happiness in [...]
As a society, we’re always on the go, so does that mean our brains are too? According to a report from the University of California, San Diego, in 28 years (from 1980 to 2008), our consumption of information increased 350 percent. People at work change windows or check e-mail or other programs nearly 37 times an hour. Yet, [...]
