Naps should never be abandoned. As parents, we know that our kids need them. We’ve seen the brain function dwindle, the emotions become erratic, the stress levels raise until finally our child lays down and takes a nap. Readily, we should be able to admit the same behavior. Especially as parents, our brains get tired.…
Kids today are being brought up in a world full of distractions. Previous generations witnessed the development of real life, real time notifications. The only notifications and distractions we’ve had before was music, a phone call, or a pager. Getting a notification for an email only happened in real-time when logged online. Today, the menus…
Parents have been complaining about their kids’ smartphone use for quite some time. Before smartphones, it was video games. Before video games, it was computer games. Before computer games, it was television. For decades, technology has been stealing kids’ attention and preventing them from spending time outdoors. Today, technology ‘addicted’ teens would rather sit in…
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) released a warning letter against energy drink consumption in children and teens through a published statement in the journal Current Sports Medicine Reports. Children and teenagers are still relatively small in body size and their metabolism is especially high, which makes consuming energy drinks especially dangerous for them.…
Kids will be kids! If only, as parents, we could get our kids to listen to everything we say, all the time. As independent beings with a growing sense of themselves, our kids start making decisions which don’t always agree with our own. We can get lost in our sense of authority and our entitlement…
Games work for kids. Turn anything into a game and you have their undivided attention. Making otherwise tedious activities entertaining tasks makes adolescents more willing to engage. Studies have found that fun entertainment as a form of learning is more effective in some areas. One area where this was recently tested was in the use…
Daniel Levitin is the expert on how music affects the brain. His bestselling book This Is Your Brain On Music highlighted the many ways the brain reacts to music. With Fast Company, Levitin discusses his new book The Organized Mind and how the brain is suffering as a result of technological interactions. For example, Levitin…