The Lifeblood of a Healthy Society.

Back in 2010, we were conducting a mission called Village Stability Operations.

The Dividends of Practicing Patience.

Patience is the ability to wait. If that sounds easy, then you’re fortunate. When you’re in a hurry, waiting can be especially frustrating. Unexpected wait time can feel as if the universe refuses to cooperate with your schedule, wasting resources you don’t have with hassles you don’t need. But patience teaches a valuable lesson: when circumstances are beyond your control, it’s time to shift your focus to what you can control.

Online Dating Study Reveals How Far People Are Willing to Go to Find Love.

The wide pool of candidates accessible during online dating can feel overwhelmingly large. With the ability to message candidates from sea to shining sea, the perfect person may be just a DM away  even if that person lives in the next state or county. But an analysis published Tuesday in Sociological Science reveals that even if that ultra-compatible human is out there, there’s a limit to how far we will go for love.

4 ways childhood emotional trauma impacts us as adults.

For those people who endured some sort of emotional trauma as a child, even if the trauma is long in the past, those emotional scars can still show themselves in adulthood. During the time of the trauma, regardless of whether it was experienced directly or witnessed by the child, the world often ceases to make sense to them. In order to cope, the child tries to find meaning in their experience. They draw a ‘mental map’ of the world and the way things work.

Psychology Professor Says We Should Only Be Working Four Days A Week.

As we all know, professors are always right. As such, bosses all need to sit up and listen to Professor Adam Grant, who says both employers and employees would benefit from the introduction of a four-day working week.

Study reveals that women are actually better drivers

If we had a euro for every time we heard a remark about "women drivers", we'd be very wealthy right now. From not being able to parallel park to not looking where we're going because we're "applying lipstick" to just, in general, being seen as a lot less adequate behind the wheel compared to the opposite sex, we've heard it all.

‘Let’s Get a Cup of Coffee’: Mother, 22, Reveals What Stranger Told Her Before Trying to Jump From Building.

A 22-year-old U.K. mother revealed what a good Samaritan told her as she was about to kill herself by jumping off a building. Charley Wills said that a woman happened to see her and stopped her from jumping.

44 Health Resolutions That Only Require One Small Change For starters, you do not have to do all 44; just one is fine!

There’s some powerful New Year’s energy in the air. Now’s the time to harness those vibes and head into a fresh year ready to become more healthy, awesome, and powerful. Whether you need help thinking up resolutions for the upcoming year or want something small and specific enough that you’ll actually stick to, we’ve got a great list of 44 resolutions to choose from.

Mind yourself this Christmas: How to care for your mental health during the festive period.

CHRISTMAS TIME CAN be an incredibly stressful time for many people. Between the family members you only see once a year, the financial pressures and the feeling that you have too much to do and not enough time to do it in, December can be a particularly difficult time. It’s not unusual for someone living with a mental health condition to feel a bit overwhelmed by the festivities. It’s also not all that unusual for people without one to feel overwhelmed either.

Six Habits of Highly Empathic People.

Are We Living in the Age of Empathy?: If you think you’re hearing the word “empathy” everywhere, you’re right. It’s now on the lips of scientists and business leaders, education experts and political activists. But there is a vital question that few people ask: How can I expand my own empathic potential? Empathy is not just a way to extend the boundaries of your moral universe. According to new research, it’s a habit we can cultivate to improve the quality of our own lives. But what is empathy? It’s the ability to step into the shoes of another person, aiming to understand their feelings and perspectives and to use that understanding to guide our actions.

One school pupil in every classroom is bullied every single day, survey suggests.

One child in every classroom has been bullied every single day over the past six months, the survey suggests. Almost half (45 per cent) of 11 to 16-year-olds questioned said they had been bullied face-to-face, and more than a third (34 per cent) have been bullied online, at least once in the last six months. A survey, from the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA), suggests that 4 per cent of pupils are being bullied face-to-face or online every day which it says is the equivalent of one child in every classroom.

ONE IN FOUR CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE ROLE MODELS, STUDY CLAIMS.

A study of more than 1,000 children aged 10 to 16 has found more than 25 per cent of them did not have a role model to look up to. Rather than turning to teachers and parents for advice on careers, school work or fitting in, researchers found nearly half of the children polled turned to YouTube instead. Similarly, 37 per cent revealed their first point of call for careers advice was a celebrity, who they tried to contact directly in a bid for help.

How to Stay Calm Like a Navy Seal.

Life abounds with stress-making, havoc-provoking mayhem. Did you misplace your keys when you were already late for work this morning? Was traffic worse today than after a 5-car accident on a Los Angeles turnpike? Is your boss expecting the impossible from you, while you stare into your kid’s eyes and choke back tears explaining you’re going to have to miss their game again?.

Women should NOT be forced to share toilets and fitting rooms with transgender females

A leading academic has argued that women should not be forced to share spaces with transgender females, warning that proposed changes to the law could cause 'unacceptable harm' to people born female. Writing for The Conversation, Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, explained why she's against possible changes to the Gender Recognition Act, which would allow people to be legally recognised as their chosen gender without the need for medical certification.

Some neighborhoods lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there.

There’s a hopeful new sign that how we build our cities, and specifically, how good a job we do of building mixed-income neighbourhoods that are open to everyone can play a key role in reducing poverty and promoting equity. New research shows that neighbourhood effects the impact of peers, the local environment, neighbours contribute significantly to success later in life.

Irony of Life in Nigeria an Ordinary Thief (OT) & a Political Thief (PT).

The rich man marries, and have 4 children. A poor man marries, and start mass production of children that he can't afford to train because the only thing that gives poor man joy is the body of his wife.

Apparently, people born in this month are actually smarter than others

A study found that the older you are at the start of the school year, the more likely you are to excel throughout your education (and, basically, the rest of your life.)So if you were born in September, you could be in luck.

Western society is making us lonely.

There’s a massive problem at the core of Western society that results in so many of us feeling lonely.

10 subtle signs of fake people that are easy to miss

We all know that one person who fakes their way through life. While you might secretly hope that you are wrong about someone like that, it’s not hard to tell when someone is being fake. But what are the consequences of such a relationship? For starters, when someone isn’t being themselves, you can never fully trust them.

23 per cent of Irish children live in a single-parent household.

IRELAND TOPS AN EU survey, alongside Latvia, for the number of children living in single-parent households. The figures in the survey undertaken in 2008 by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office, show that three out of four children in the EU lived with married parents in 2008 while one child in seven lived in a single-parent household.