We all need nourishment of one sort or another to thrive. With that in mind, check out this month’s recommended ways to feed the mind, body, and soul.
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This rhubarb muffin recipe from Dance Around the Kitchen is super delicious and a great way to showcase your summer garden harvest of rhubarb. They’re super moist, bursting with rhubarb flavour and topped with a deliciously sugary cinnamon topping. They’re a great way to start your morning and it is sure to be a hit in the kids’ lunches when they head out to summer camp!
The Anxious Generation is a #1 New York Times Bestseller by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. This book discusses the epidemic of teen mental illness that has hit many countries at the same time. Haidt investigates the nature of childhood, and shows how the “play-based childhood” has been wiped out by the “phone-based childhood”. He explains how this has interfered with children’s social and neurological development through sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. There are some great calls to action in this book to help parents work together to fight against this trend.
Epic is a digital reading platform that is built on a collection of over 40,000 books from over 250 of the world’s best publishers. The tool has books for all ages and topic categories for all preferences. Although this is a monthly subscription tool, you should first check with your child’s teacher to see if they have a classroom code that can set you up with the free plan.
For hundreds of years, residents in the Belgian town of Geel have been giving a home to strangers with severe mental health issues. In the article titled “‘Care BnB’ – the town where mentally ill people lodge with locals“, The Guardian tells us all about the town, it’s history, and the people who call it home. The town’s model of acceptance and “radical kindness” (to cite one medical journal) has sparked interest around the world, and academics and journalists have started to flock to the small town in search of inspiration for innovation from the 700 year old tradition. With the mental health crisis on the rise, the search for new options of care is a hot topic worldwide.
