New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent
e teen years. This is the age where one's room can simultaneously resemble a FEMA disaster site and a meticulously curated museum of personal angst, each discarded clothing item a testament to a fleeting mood or an identity crisis. What causes all the problems? The teenage brain. It’s a marvel of nature, a biological enigma wrapped in a riddle, encased in a skull that's often adorned with questionable hairstyle choices. But say a word about it and you’ll invoke an…
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This Is How To Make Your Baby Smarter: 4 Secrets From Research
ing a new parent isn’t easy. Babies are essentially tiny, drunk roommates. They stumble around, they're loud at all the wrong hours, they throw up on you without a hint of remorse, and they don't pay rent. You'll find yourself considering the merits of just squirting puree directly onto the floor just to cut out the middleman. And this is all made more difficult by the fact that they can barely communicate. Babies come equipped with a range of sounds…
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How To Know Who You Can Trust: 6 Secrets From Research
ust — humanity's favorite high-wire act. What’s the reason most people cite for wanting to leave their job? Not trusting their employer. And what quality do you value in a friend more than any other? You guessed it: trustworthiness. But a 2021 poll showed that 18 percent of American adults said they only have one or zero people they can trust for help in their personal lives. It’s a sad "I'll laugh about this in therapy" kind of statistic. Makes…
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This Is The Emotionally Intelligent Way To Communicate With Kids
renting can feel like an inescapable theme park of chaos. Truth is, you're not simply a parent, but a negotiator, a janitor, a superhero, and the prime suspect in the mysterious case of the missing sanity. It's a job as exhausting as it is exhilarating, as thankless as it is rewarding. Little kids are certainly a challenge. They think mud is a food group and possess the lung capacity of a blue whale. To a small child, a closed bathroom…
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This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 8 Secrets
otional intelligence. That elusive, ethereal quality that some people seem to have in spades, while the rest of us are left scrabbling around in the social dirt like confused, charmless mole people. EI is complex, but one of the best ways to increase it is simple: learn how to be a good listener. Listening is the golden ticket, the unsung hero of the social Olympics. Problem is, these days listening is about as popular as a landline. Everyone wants to…
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New Research Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Persuasive
o wouldn’t like to have a few magic words that can warp reality? Shazam! Abracadabra! Hocus pocus! And then everything works out. We all yearn for a few elusive syllables that can produce linguistic sorcery but they seem about as easy to find as an original thought on Twitter. Well, believe it or not, it seems like there just might be a few magic words… In the 1970s, researchers from Harvard approached people using a copy machine and asked if…
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This Is How To Overcome Anger: 5 Powerful Secrets From Research
1974, Daniel Casriel released a book titled, “A Scream Away From Happiness.” The thesis was that by “scream therapy” you could release tension and anger and become a happier person. No, this doesn’t work and you should not buy that book unless you’re a big fan of unintentional humor. Research shows venting anger is not good. In fact, it’s better to do nothing than to scream and yell or throw things. But sometimes screaming, yelling, and throwing things sounds…
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5 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time
t’s begin with a cruel little fact… Iris Mauss, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, found that those who worked the hardest to be happier ended up being unhappier on every measure she studied. Huh? Trying to live a better life fails miserably? Might be time to close up shop on this blog. Well, we had a good run. It’s been fun. Bye... Seriously though, let’s put a pin in that one for now. We’ll get to it…
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