Three Mistakes Parents Make With Anxious Children
As a parent of a child with anxiety, you want your child to be happy and feel better. What you don’t want to do is…
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Sadder But Wiser? Not When It Comes to Money
Sadness and wisdom often go hand-in-hand according to research. A number of studies support the idea that depressed people have a more accurate perception of…
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Childhood Anxiety May Be Linked to Sleeping Problems
Does your child toss and turn at night? Does your child regularly wake up tired and unrefreshed? According to research, a small percentage of children…
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Child Anxiety and Watching Television
It is no revelation to hear that television plays a significant role in a child’s development. How much of a role and what effect it…
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The First Day of School Causes Anxiety, Stress in Children
The first day of school is nearly here and for millions of children that means one thing: anxiety. What will I wear? Will I be able to…
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Stay-at-Home Moms or Employed Moms: Who’s Happier?
If you had to choose between staying home with your kids or leaving them at a daycare while you worked, which would you choose? What…
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Video Game Alleviates Teen Depression
Video games represent a choice leisure activity and hobby for many kids, but games may have a lot more going for them than just their…
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Inside the Brain of a Chatty Cathy
People devote over 30-40% of every day speech to describing their private experiences or personal relationships. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter capitalize on…
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Best U.S. Cities for Women’s Well-Being
Well-being is a broad term and encapsulates different things for different people. For some, well-being connotes a long life and good relationships, for others, it…
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Why Older People Are More Apt to Forgive and Forget
People become happier as they get older, according to recent research. Happiness significantly rises for the over 50-crowd, and while physical health may decrease as…
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The Science Behind Motivation and Drive
If you’ve ever seen the television show Gilmore Girls, you know that Rory Gilmore is a textbook overachiever. She sets her sights on Harvard at…
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Happiness in the Golden Years: Live and Learn
Everyone has regrets. Now, researchers can tell us what types of things people regret the most. Researchers from Germany set out to examine the ways in which…
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Happiness Linked to a Healthier Heart
Eating right, exercising, getting enough sleep, and drinking plenty of water are often heralded as the hallmarks of health. We tend to see a healthy…
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Texting Offers Mental Health Benefits
There’s no denying that text messaging is a go-to form of communication for plenty of people. Along with taking photos, text messaging is the most…
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Facebook Boosts Productivity in the Workplace
People use Facebook to stay in touch with far-off friends, to look at photo albums of a recent family wedding or vacation, or (let’s be…
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Depression – A Whole-Body Disorder
People tend to think of depression as a mental illness, but new research shows that depression and other psychological disorders affect the body as much…
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Mindful Eating: Re-Thinking the Family Meal
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,…
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Mindfulness Offers a Much-Needed Break from Tech Overload
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…
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Express Gratitude and Say “Yes” to Better Health
Gratitude is something most of us outwardly express once a year on Thanksgiving. In fact, it’s become quite cliché for families to go around the…
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Self-Compassion, a Better Motivator than Self-Criticism
At first glance, self-compassion seems awfully self-indulgent. If I fail at something, and I tell myself things like, “It’s okay” or, “You tried your best”…
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The First-Ever World Happiness Report Findings
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…
