Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Luara Ferracioli
Some people are lucky enough to look back at their childhood with affection for a time in life without much stress and anxiety.
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- Written by: Lisa Huisman Koops
Parenting musically is the way I describe what happens when moms and dads use music for many nonmusical tasks and goals.
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- Written by: Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett and Steven Howard
With governments around the world asking their citizens to avoid places, activities and gatherings to save lives, this just might be the largest ever international effort to self-regulate our actions against competing desires and impulses.
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- Written by: Matthew J. Mayhew
With many college students forced to return home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tensions and arguments are bound to flare up.
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- Written by: Erika Bocknek
About 55 million U.S. schoolchildren attend schools that have been closed or are being directly affected by the new coronavirus social distancing rules.
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- Written by: Wendy Grolnick
Parents have always helped with homework and made sure their children fulfill responsibilities like chores, but the extended and often unstructured time families are spending together during the current crisis creates new challenges.
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- Written by: Ben Deery
Earlier that day her swimming and basketball lessons were cancelled, a birthday party postponed, and she had to race with me between several meetings before the university campus shut down. “Stupid coronavirus indeed!”
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- Written by: Rebecca Dore
As families everywhere adjust to social distancing measures like closed schools and child care centers, workplaces and more, parents are grappling with questions regarding their kids’ use of technology.
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- Written by: Johann Christoph Arnold
For years, psychologists, educators and church leaders have warned about subversive and decadent influences on children in our society -- the internet, pornographic literature and films, violent video games, raunchy TV, and so on. It's an old story: the more sexually perverted the entertainment, the more teenagers watch it, and the higher the ratings and the profits.
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- Written by: Jay Maddock and Lori Andersen Spruance
Research has shown that youth who participate in sports leagues are eight times as likely to be active in their early 20s than those who don’t participate.
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- Written by: Deborah Bateson and Kathleen McNamee
About one-third of women using contraception use the pill. But how effective is it?
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- Written by: Jean Twenge
Major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased even more – from 12% in 2011 to 20% in 2017.
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- Written by: Diana Coholic
With art, you have all the colours in the world to share your thoughts,” wrote one youth in the Holistic Arts-based Program at Laurentian University.
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- Written by: Sonia Choquette
A common childhood fear is fear of the dark. Many children become terrified of the dark and can't go to sleep in a darkened room alone, convinced the "bogeyman" or some other night creature is waiting in the shadows to get them. I had a client whose son was terrified...
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- Written by: Dan Mamlok and Sandra Chang-Kredl
Disturbing events related to cyberbullying in recent months and years have raised great concern among parents, youths and educators regarding the everyday lives of children in online spaces
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- Written by: Nikki Martyn and Elena Merenda
Disappointment is a natural human emotion that occurs after a perceived failure.
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- Written by: Elena Merenda and Nikki Martyn
Imagination and play encourage children to think through hypothetical situations and create new worlds
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- Written by: Mark S. Tremblay and Mariana Brussoni
New research from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey reaffirmed the dramatic decline in Canadian children’s fitness seen over the past 35 years
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- Written by: Luke Zaphir
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems experience as the best way to acquire knowledge.
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- Written by: Angela Incollingo Rodriguez
December is considered the most fertile month, a time when there’s the greatest likelihood that children will be conceived. Some experts even pinpoint Dec. 11 as the most fertile day.
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- Written by: Aviva Segal and Sandra Martin-Chang
Parents are often their children’s first literacy teachers. They oversee children signing their names on artwork and read storybooks with their kids.
