Your Happiness Calendar for September 2020
This month, process your emotions and connect with what matters.
Help Students Process COVID-19 Emotions With This Lesson Plan
Music and the arts can help students transition back to school this year.
Six Online Activities to Help Students Cope With COVID-19
These well-being practices can help students feel connected and resilient during the pandemic.
Episode 70: How to Love People You Don’t Like
Our guest tries a practice to help her feel compassion toward others—even those she disagrees with.
Four Ways to Feel Good on a Hard Day in Lockdown
New research suggests how people are bouncing back from the daily challenges of living with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Five Lessons to Remember When Lockdown Ends
Let's not forget what we learned from going through a pandemic.
Will the Pandemic Have a Lasting Impact on My Kids?
Research on wars, natural disasters, and other crises reveals how to protect our children’s mental health.
How to Keep Coronavirus Worries from Disrupting Your Sleep
A sleep expert weighs in on how to get a better night’s rest during this time of heightened stress.
How Teens Today Are Different from Past Generations
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens"—is different from Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials.
Seven TV Shows that Highlight the Best in Fatherhood
Gone are the bumbling dads of yesteryear. Our crack team of TV watchers found that today's representations of fathers have evolved and diversified.
Do Mindfulness Apps Work?
Research on mindfulness apps is limited, but here’s what we know so far.
Six Tips for Reading Emotions in Text Messages
Text messaging can breed disastrous misunderstandings between people. Here’s how to stop that from happening.
Ten Films that Highlight the Best in Humanity
Forget the Oscars. With the Greater Goodies, we're honoring movies from the past year that exemplify forgiveness, resilience, empathy, and…
How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation
A Q&A with MIT professor Sherry Turkle about her new book, Reclaiming Conversation.
Are Smartphones Bad for Teen Mental Health?
This generation has seen serious increases in mental health problems, but smartphones are unlikely to blame.
What is Your Phone Doing to Your Relationships?
New research is exploring how phubbing—ignoring someone in favor of our mobile phone—hurts our relationships, and what we can do about it.