For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Social isolation is the public health risk of our time. Building your village is a matter of life and death. The secret to living longer may be your social life. Building your village can make you healthier, happier and smarter. Susan Pinker explores how our social...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Recommended article: How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills by Zaria Borvett An excerpt from the article: According to Ty Tashiro, a psychologist and the author of Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome,...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Suicide rates for teens have risen between 2010 and 2015 after a nearly two decade decline according to data from the US federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Why the rates went up isn’t known but the rates among US teens occurred at the same time...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
The medical journal The Lancet has examined the impact of social distancing on adolescents. The summary points out that young people between the ages of 10 and 24 need to interact face-to-face with their peers to develop fully, both behaviourally and neurologically....
