Kelly Burch | We Are Teachers The disruption of regular classroom life this year brought about by the pandemic makes it really hard to tell just how our students are doing. As Emily Countryman, an eighth-grade teacher at Rawlinson Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, told CNN, “When we’re staring at a black screen that…
Marina Khidekel | Thrive Global There’s power in building a toolbox of strategies to implement on the days where confidence-boosting doesn’t feel so intuitive. Feeling confident doesn’t always come naturally to many of us, but it’s something we can actively work on and improve. For example, research shows that regularly practicing certain rituals and habits…
Brianne Hogan | MSN Health Your kids are home. Y’all have all been home a lot in the last year. Even though there’s hope for things to change in the near future, that doesn’t change that they’re inside now, and as such, you’ve probably missed your regular exercise routine. Since you don’t want to grant…
Suzanne Zuckerman | MSN Lifestyle In the children’s classic Olivia, the protagonist, a stylish Manhattan piglet, “is very good at wearing people out. She even wears herself out.” On a single page, author and illustrator Ian Falconer depicts Olivia jumping rope, wailing, leaping, baking, standing on her head, hammering a nail and playing with a…
Laura Hampson | Yahoo Entertainment Limiting your screen time can do wonders for your mental health. Ever since we went into our first lockdown a year ago, the news cycle has felt almost unrelenting. Daily death figures from the coronavirus pandemic have been plastered on our screens alongside harrowing stories of police violence from the…
Kelly Burch | We Are Teachers The disruption of regular classroom life this year brought about by the pandemic makes it really hard to tell just how our students are doing. As Emily Countryman, an eighth-grade teacher at Rawlinson Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, told CNN, “When we’re staring at a black screen that…
Marina Khidekel | Thrive Global There’s power in building a toolbox of strategies to implement on the days where confidence-boosting doesn’t feel so intuitive. Feeling confident doesn’t always come naturally to many of us, but it’s something we can actively work on and improve. For example, research shows that regularly practicing certain rituals and habits…
Brianne Hogan | MSN Health Your kids are home. Y’all have all been home a lot in the last year. Even though there’s hope for things to change in the near future, that doesn’t change that they’re inside now, and as such, you’ve probably missed your regular exercise routine. Since you don’t want to grant…
Suzanne Zuckerman | MSN Lifestyle In the children’s classic Olivia, the protagonist, a stylish Manhattan piglet, “is very good at wearing people out. She even wears herself out.” On a single page, author and illustrator Ian Falconer depicts Olivia jumping rope, wailing, leaping, baking, standing on her head, hammering a nail and playing with a…
Laura Hampson | Yahoo Entertainment Limiting your screen time can do wonders for your mental health. Ever since we went into our first lockdown a year ago, the news cycle has felt almost unrelenting. Daily death figures from the coronavirus pandemic have been plastered on our screens alongside harrowing stories of police violence from the…