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: Sarah Leupen
Everyone has one, but you might not know much about it. Biologist Sarah Leupen explains the ins and outs of belly buttons.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Englander, and Meghan K. McCoy
It’s a well-established fact that children’s and teens’ mental health took a hit during the pandemic. But new research suggests that teen girls in particular are suffering in unprecedented ways.
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- Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick
We are the ones who make the choices and convey the lessons—by word and deed, wittingly and unwittingly—that shape a young person’s ethics and values, point of view, and priorities.
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- Written by: Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D.
Some of you might be thinking, "I'd love to start dating, but who would want to date someone with four children, a dog, and two parakeets?" Don't assume just because you have children, you're less desirable. There are plenty of people who like children and who want to date someone with children.
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- Written by: Jennifer Fraser
The bullying paradigm has parents, teachers and coaches believing they must be tough to the point of emotional abuse in order for children to acquire grit and resilience.
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- Written by: Kevin Kuehn and Kevin King, University of Washington
Emotions are tricky things. They allow for humans to fall in love, wage war and, as it turns out, engage in self-harm.
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- Written by: Erin Digitale, Stanford University
Just as an infant knows to tune into her mother's voice, an adolescent knows to tune into novel voices. As a teen, you don't know you're doing this. You're just being you. Your mind is increasingly sensitive to and attracted to these unfamiliar voices.
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- Written by: Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bitter reminder that there is no end to the horrific suffering that humans are sometimes willing to inflict on others.
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- Written by: University of Michigan
Firearms have surpassed motor vehicles as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, according to a new analysis of federal data.
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- Written by: Kirsten OLeary, University of Queensland
Teens are more likely to report psychosomatic symptoms, a combination of physical and psychological complaints, if they exceed two hours of screen time and these effects were similar regardless of physical activity levels.
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- Written by: Lynn Gardner, Morehouse School of Medicine
Few things are more challenging than trying to vaccinate a terrified and uncooperative child.
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- Written by: Jonathan S. Comer and Anthony Steven Dick, Florida International University
Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching news coverage of disasters can raise childen’s anxiety and trigger responses in their brains that put them at risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms.
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- Written by: Alison Owen, Staffordshire University
Research from around the world has examined the extent that COVID-19 restrictions have had on children and their levels of physical activity.
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- Written by: Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University
Children are capable of discerning an insincere apology, and insincere apologies are not conducive to encouraging forgiveness. The apology needs to make clear that someone understands why what they did was wrong. This, in turn, makes other kids more likely to give them a second chance.
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- Written by: Sareh Karami, Mississippi State University et al
Creativity involves the production of ideas that are both new and also useful or effective. This definition makes it sound as though creativity is quite positive. And often it is.
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- Written by: Carmen Viktoria Gamper
Tension release is a significant part of self-healing in children and adults, and it is unavoidable when we become more present with ourselves in flow experiences.
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- Written by: Carmen Viktoria Gamper
Tension release is a significant part of self-healing in children and adults, and it is unavoidable when we become more present with ourselves in flow experiences.
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- Written by: Bailey Gaddis
Suppressing fear-induced emotions infuses life into them, often causing a manifestation of depression or unpleasant physical symptoms. Here is a plan to liberate the emotions surrounding your fears so they can have their moment and then go bother someone else.
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- Written by: Jill Rosen, Johns Hopkins University
Infants’ responses to surprising events like magic tricks are linked to later cognitive ability, researchers find. The first-of-its-kind longitudinal study of infant curiosity found that months-old babies most captivated by magic tricks became the most curious toddlers.
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- Written by: Megan Schumann, Rutgers University
Preschoolers are more likely to choose to gather more information about a topic if they know just enough about it to find it interesting, but not too much that it becomes boring, research finds.
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- Written by: Jennifer Watling Neal, Associate Professor of Psychology
Fertility rates in the United States have plunged to record lows, and this could be related to the fact that more people are choosing not to have children.
