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A psychologist and parenting expert shares practical tips on how college students who are parents can help both themselves and their children excel in school.
Sound sleep, for long enough every night, with consistent bed and wake-up times are critical for kids’ health. A child development expert suggests some overarching tips to help get you there.
Understanding and changing the environment in which habits form is a critical step when it comes to breaking unwanted behaviors and forming healthy ones.
Research highlights the importance of daily meditation, exercise and sleep for improving executive functioning, a component of attention that helps people focus.
Routines can be powerful tools to help people build a ‘new normal’ as pandemic restrictions lift. Routines can support creativity, boost health and provide meaningful activities and opportunities.
COVID-19 upended families’ morning routines. Getting kids back on schedule and sticking to it will help ease difficult transitions, a child psychologist explains.
One big complication with K-12 distance learning is how hard it is to get children and teens to log in and do their schoolwork. But there are things teachers and families can do to help.
We’ve got this: parents can build kids’ resiliency in by focussing on what’s going well, maintaining some predictability and order, modelling belief in their own abilities and caring for themselves.
A family therapist and childhood development expert encourages parents and others raising kids to focus on the 4 R’s: routines, rules, relationships and rituals.
A psychologist specializing in parenting offers tips to help children self-motivate while at home during the coronavirus crisis.
The trick is changing our actual behaviour, as well as our intentions.
The music we choose to listen to not only allows us to retreat into a place of peace and privacy, but also helps frame our daily routines and interactions with others.
Even people who claim to hate routines probably follow quite a few.
Everyday routines help individuals and organisations work efficiently, but can also be one of the biggest obstacles to innovation. Here’s a five-point plan for implementing innovations.
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Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Wayne State University
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Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Research Scholar; Clinical Director of Children and Family Programs, Kennesaw State University
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Postdoctoral fellow in Behavioral Science, University of Pennsylvania
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Nottingham Trent University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, University of South Australia
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Emerita Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University
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PhD Student in Cognitive Science, Dalhousie University
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Graduate Research Assistant, Kennesaw State University
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Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Psychology, Clark University
