For many children, the arrival of Santa Claus is the high point of the December festivities. But do they really believe that a man with magical powers travels the globe to bring them their gifts? If they believe it, isn’t that proof of their gullibility or their inability to distinguish between fiction and reality? To put things […] … learn more→

Getting caught up in drug or alcohol abuse can be devastating. It can take away from your life and the lives of other people. It can even cause you to become mentally and physically sick. You can look out for several signs that can tell you whether or not someone is abusive of drugs or […] … learn more→

The digital environment can be both helpful and hostile, especially for children and adolescents. When considering when and how we want to introduce minors into the digital ecosystem, adults can provide them with the necessary knowledge to function. Oddly enough, the best way to prepare minors for their presence on social networks is to provide them […] … learn more→

We all lie to our kids. Some lies – telling them their artwork is wonderful, or that Wiggles band-aids are infused with anaesthetic – benefit the child. Others are just a bit of fun. Take the Tiktok trend of telling your kids this weird little gnome is a picture of them as a baby: @brittikitty […] … learn more→

Christmas is approaching for yet another year, and with it the excesses typical of these holidays: family gatherings that are desired or not so much, disproportionate feasts, go-go sweets, alcohol in abundance and compulsive gift shopping. You have to buy in advance the gifts of Three Kings and, lately, also those of Santa Claus. So many […] … learn more→

Don’t say ‘just don’t go online’ because adults wouldn’t do that if something happened in the real world. If you got followed home, it’s not like [they would say]: “Hey, stop leaving the house.” Help the person understand that it wasn’t their fault and try to help them through it – be a shoulder to […] … learn more→

When parents separate or divorce, it is very often the mother who obtains custody of the child, accompanied by occasional visits to the father. However, over the past twenty years, another system has gradually gained momentum in Europe: joint custody, in which the child resides alternately, and more or less equally, with each of his parents. According to […] … learn more→

This article is based on a true story: becoming a Jedi Knight has improved the fitness and health of an experimental group of students. Specifically, those chosen for the Star Wars project: the first Jedi of the Faculty of Sports Sciences of the University of Granada . The key to the project is to use fiction, in this case the […] … learn more→

Behind the expression of young people said to be “in difficulty”, there are multiple profiles of people aged 14 to 18, associated with different categorisations: in revolt, in the process of integration, in danger of exclusion, in social distress… These young people live in so-called “disadvantaged” neighborhoods where the rates of precariousness, school failure, juvenile […] … learn more→

As we enter the inaccurately named ‘post’-COVID era, many of us are returning to in-person conferences and symposiums for the first time in years—for many junior researchers, for the first time ever. While seeing our friends again and listening to talks and informal discussions in the same room as someone else is wonderful, this has […] … learn more→