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April Content Update: What’s New This Month?

This month's new content features videos and activities about understanding what to share online and in person. This includes topics like cyber safety, understanding the difference between friends and acquaintances, and staying cool-headed in tricky situations. We...

Our New Normal: Simplified Social Lives
Our New Normal: Simplified Social Lives

The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on most people’s social lives and created a strange new 'normal'. The thought of our pre-pandemic world has become a distant memory. Going to a party indoors? Preposterous. A concert? Unimaginable! While we are all...

Forming Healthy Habits One Step at a Time
Forming Healthy Habits One Step at a Time

Habits, put simply, are the small decisions and actions we make repeatedly. According to researchers at Duke University, our habits account for about 40% of our behaviors on any given day. Because such a large percentage of our behaviors are out of habit, we’d venture...

Shifting Your Perspective: Why and How?
Shifting Your Perspective: Why and How?

Perspective: Point of view; the way we see or perceive things. “Look on the bright side!” “Put yourself in their shoes.” “Anyway you slice it...” “The glass is half empty.” It’s likely you've heard at least one of these common English idioms before. Each of them is...

Maintaining Employee Morale: Tips for Administrators
Maintaining Employee Morale: Tips for Administrators

Guest post by Laurel Mendoza, MA, CCC-SLP, in partnership with eLuma Online Therapy. People are happier when they’re recognized at work. In fact, according to a survey conducted by Bonusly and SurveyMonkey, 82% of employed Americans consider recognition an...

Social-Emotional Benefits of Eating Family Dinner Together
Social-Emotional Benefits of Eating Family Dinner Together

In homes across the country, many Americans sit down at the dinner table each night as a family to enjoy each other’s company and a hot meal. This sacred tradition, often referred to as the ‘family dinner’, wasn’t truly formed until the late 18th century when dining...