Unplug This Summer

Taking breaks helps to boost productivity, energy levels, your ability to focus, and supports your overall mental health and well-being.

Even though micro-breaks, the breaks you take throughout the day, have excellent benefits, sometimes longer breaks are needed to unwind and recharge our minds.

Longer breaks can also help us disconnect from work and technology. They encourage us to be more present. Think of them as opportunities to explore nature, try new things, or just kick up our feet up and relax.

Longer breaks help prevent decision fatigue, too. Decision fatigue saps us of creative ideas, we struggle to focus, and we can’t make decisions as easily as we usually do. Fortunately, longer breaks have been found to help us recover from work-related strains and improve our well-being.

Consider the benefits of taking a break this summer!

In this increasingly digital world, it’s almost impossible to live a life completely detached from the online world.

Read on to find out why it’s so difficult to unplug in this modern era, the dangers of being overly attached to screens, and tips on how to effectively unplug.

We all need breaks. Done properly, breaks can reduce mental fatigue, boost brain function and creativity, and actually keep us on-task for longer periods of time.

Want to learn how to take better breaks? Here's how to maximize your downtime.

In today's world, children are exposed to vast amounts of technology. Take these tips into consideration to help keep your student engaged in activities other than technology this summer.

During summer break, kids often find it difficult to form or maintain friendships with peers their own age. Besides their siblings or cousins, most kids would say that they mainly interact with adults when they are not in school. Yet, summer socialization can have a healthy impact on kids, helping them develop social skills like sharing and teamwork, foster empathy, decision making skills, improve language skills, grow more confident, and become better prepared for school.

Play is enjoyable, intrinsically motivated behavior that is non-rule-governed, non-goal-oriented, and "just pretend." Play-based learning takes place in a setting that results from the active engagement of a child and the interaction between that child and their peers or environment.