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A Simple Guide for Homeschooling: Parents and Students

While most children attend public or private schools, an increasing percentage are homeschooled. Learn more about the homeschooling movement and what it entails when parents teach their children. What is homeschooling? Homeschooling is a progressive trend in the United States (and worldwide) in which parents teach their children at home rather than sending them to ...

Ratul Saha

Mother helping her young daughter with a school lesson.

Childhood Anxiety During the Pandemic

In September 2021, UK’s National Health Service (NHS) reported that 1 in 6 children had a mental health disorder. Although the figures were similar in 2020, it also said that cases of childhood anxiety had risen significantly over the past few years. Adults and children alike have felt adverse effects in their own lives since ...

Katrina Hicks

Child wearing a mask looking out of a window.

COVID Pandemic Is Causing Addiction and Cognitive Stunting in Children

The COVID pandemic has brought unprecedented changes in human life. People are now being compelled to spend more time at home than ever before, regardless of their jobs and locations. While the COVID pandemic has led to several complications in life, children are faring worse than adults. Children do not have many options for playing ...

Jack Roberts

Boy using a mobile phone.

Extreme Polarization Is Now Defining Society

Political polarization in the United States of America is quite common. Social scientists are working on the matter and provide valuable explanations for frozen political discourse. Lots of discussions are done about the political polarization of America. After electing the most polarized Congress “since the end of Reconstruction,” various kinds of reasons are given, including ...

Raven Montmorency

'Republicans' and 'Democrats,' text on red and blue backgrounds sits under the American flag.

How Do You Avoid Getting Caught Up in a Deadly Crowd Crush?

On Friday, November 5, 2021, American Rap star Travis Scott held his annual “Astroworld Festival” in Houston, Texas. It has been reported that approximately 50,000 people were in attendance. Unfortunately, following a crowd surge, which is commonly called a crowd crush, 10 people died and are pending further federal investigations. Hundreds were injured and dozens ...

Katrina Hicks

Concert crowd clapping.

What Is the Infamous Cancel Culture and Does It Hold People Accountable?

“Cancel culture” is a modern form of being socially ostracized when someone is thrust out of social or professional circles — whether it be online, on social media, or in person. How cancel culture began The idea of canceling began as a tool for marginalized communities to assert their values against public figures who retained ...

Katrina Hicks

A red pencil erasing one of many icons of a person, aligned in towns on a on a white paper symbolising cancel culture.

Bottom Line, Domestic Violence Can Ruin Children’s Lives: I Know

Physical and mental abuse toward young children can ruin their whole lives, often irreparably. I know, as I grew up in a home with domestic violence. It didn’t really start till I was 8. Before that, things were quite good. Then, it was like a switch was turned on, and my whole life changed. Constant ...

Wilma Oakes

Sad Asian boy covers his face with his hands.

100 Years of Women’s Fitness Trends

For the last decade, women’s fitness trends have changed dramatically. I myself have done aerobics, weights, yoga, kickboxing, and I am sure many more I can’t remember as the styles have changed so much. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and see what women’s fitness trends were used to keep fit. Women’s fitness trends through the ...

Wilma Oakes

Jazzercise.

3 Reasons Japanese Culture Is Undeniably Impressive

Known to every schoolchild the world over as the Land of the Rising Sun, if you are one of those people that has an enthusiastic interest in Japanese culture, or have any misconception about Japan, we recommend you read an article called 138 Types of Japanese Culture Japan is a country where there is a ...

Helen London

Japanese culture is rich, varied and ancient.

China’s Social Credit System Rears Its Ugly Head

What happens when you suffer from the actions committed by someone else in China’s Social Credit System? Even if the other is a family member, it doesn’t sound fair, and the normal preference is to hold oneself accountable for his or her actions. This is difficult, as shown in the story below, when government surveillance ...

Armin Auctor

A university classroom.