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School-Based Mindfulness Programs May Boost Kids’ Mental Health

September 27, 2024

Source: U.S. News Teaching schoolkids to practice mindfulness can boost their mental health — and, maybe, even their grades. That’s the takeaway from a new review of more than three dozen research studies on school-based mindfulness interventions, such as seated or slow-walking…...

September 27, 2024

Source: Medical Xpress From developing social skills to fostering creativity, pretend play in young children is likened to being a “metaphoric multivitamin” in an editorial published in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews by Florida Atlantic University’s David F. Bjorklund, Ph.D. Read…...

September 27, 2024

Source: Medical Xpress Around one in three children and teens around the world is short (near)-sighted, with the global prevalence of myopia set to top 740 million cases by 2050 in this age group, finds a pooled data analysis of the available…...

September 27, 2024

Source: Medical Xpress Children with disabilities in foster care are extremely vulnerable, facing risks of maltreatment and removal from their homes and greater need for health care services. New research suggests that children with specific disabilities in foster care are less likely…...

SONG: Do You Know How Pumpkins Grow?

September 20, 2024