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Caring Causes: Student Volunteering on the Rise

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Brainly , the leading education and homework help platform, conducted a nationwide survey to better understand students’ views on volunteering. The survey found that students volunteer for reasons beyond enhancing their college applications. Check out this conversation Brainly students are having on the importance of volunteering.

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Healthy Habits: The Mayo Lab Podcast with David Magee

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This weekly program—which kicked off February 28—will serve as a single source of research-based guidance for parents, educators, and students. That’s why Magee is partnering with the University of Mississippi’s Thomas Hayes Mayo Lab (named for an Ole Miss student who died at 21 from fentanyl poisoning) to produce the new podcast.

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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

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A 2021 survey of more than 17,000 high school students found that 30 percent of the girls had considered suicide—a rate that’s double that of boys and almost 60 percent higher than ten years ago. Hold regular conversations to normalize how teens are feeling. Too many parents preach or hold one-sided conversations with our children.

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

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Student wellbeing activist David Magee couldn’t agree more. Have age-appropriate conversations with your children about the risks, such as cyberbullying, mental health disorders, and solicitations from online drug dealers,” advises Magee. Change is long overdue, and Magee says it starts with real conversations with our children. “We

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Website Spotlight: Wee Lions

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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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Smart Safety: Release Recovery Podcast

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Students face a constellation of dangers: A no-holds-barred party culture. Many of Release’s clients are students, and Clark’s own addiction progressed while he was a student—as he explains on a new podcast pulling back the curtain on the college experience and showing parents the real challenges and risks their teens are facing.

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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

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Ideally, it will take parents, educators, and communities working together to solve the complex knot of problems our young people face, which is why he created the William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi and The Mayo Lab Podcast with David Magee , available at [link] and on Apple and Spotify podcast platforms.

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