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Motivate Yourself to Get Moving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Bringing yourself to terms with having to exercise on a regular basis comes down to motivating yourself. Here are some helpful tips to keep up your motivation (and, as a result, your health). Even if you don’t want to lose weight, though, having somebody to exercise with is very motivating. Track Your Progress.

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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

Motherhood Moments

Besides the unprecedented rise in suicidal behavior, the report shared other grim findings on sexual violence, substance misuse, depression, and other mental health woes. Hold regular conversations to normalize how teens are feeling. Too many parents preach or hold one-sided conversations with our children. This is critical.)

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Website Spotlight: Wee Lions

Motherhood Moments

Parents receive support and guidance through blog posts, actionable tips, and webinars that address finding the right time to learn, asking questions, or getting their children motivated to read.

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Parenting Pointers - What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children on Social Media

Motherhood Moments

Murthy says while we don’t yet know the full impact on our young people, there are “ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.” Change is long overdue, and Magee says it starts with real conversations with our children. “We Don’t preach.

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Parenting Pointers: Tips for a Screen-Free Holiday

Motherhood Moments

Spice Up Mealtime Convo Make family dinnertime more interesting with conversation starters and leave your screens off the table. Motivational Interview Activity Motivational interviews are conversations that can help children understand their own motivations for change.

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Parenting Pointers: Gaming and Cyberbullying

Motherhood Moments

It’s important for them to understand that gaming can and should be a wonderful experience, but much like the outside world, there are predators with ulterior motives, and kids and their families need to take all necessary precautions to protect themselves. What benefits can games provide, despite some of the negatives?

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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

Motherhood Moments

Their responses were disheartening, to say the least: 51 percent said they needed help for mental health problems in the past year. In his book, Magee builds a compelling case that smartphones and their associated apps “have more to do with the mental health and substance misuse epidemic than most parents and educators can conceive.”

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