Self-care is not selfish—it is essential. By making yourself a priority, you become better equipped to handle life’s challenges and support those around you. Take time each day to care for yourself because you deserve it.
By making small changes to your daily routine and sleep environment, you can enjoy deeper, more restorative rest. Remember, quality sleep is not a luxury—it’s a foundation for a healthy and fulfilling life.
Daily exercise and daily revision! The brain activity after exercise is significantly greater than after inactivity. Daily revision leads to mastery, competence and confidence. If a student has revised daily, they are unlikely to have stress to the level that it reduces performance.
It’s better to give a task a dedicated time slot to solely focus on your work and ignore the irrelevant. Technological devices that are within reach can easily lure you in to decrease your attention span.
There are a number of factors influencing math achievement but an interesting new study (Maloney et al., 2015) looks at what happens if the parents trying to help their children with math are themselves anxious about the material. As a parent myself I start cringing because we have all had moments when we look at our children’s work with ‘oh my goodness that is hard’.
Once you work out where you think the other person is coming from, convey it ‘I totally understand why you’d be devastated he broke up with you, you didn’t even know there was a problem’