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American Families Spend Just 37 Minutes Of Quality Time Together Per Day, Survey Finds

Five takeaways:

  1. A new study shows that American Families spend only 37 mins of quality time together per day, made more troubling by a recent survey that show that the average American adult spend up to three hours a day on social media.
  2. When asked which factors in their lives were to blame for this lack of family time, two-thirds of the parents surveyed identified their long work hours as the main culprit
  3. The survey showed that quality time did increase to about 2 hours and 40 minutes on weekend days.
  4. The survey also showed that spouses also struggle to enjoy time with one another throughout the year. More than half of the parents (54%) said they get at most 12 date nights to themselves a year, while 31% sometimes go more than a month without a night out.
  5. The holistic health benefits of allocating more time for quality family time is hugely important for personal happiness, child development, and overall family strength

From Ben Renner at Study Finds:
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A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down

Five takeaways:

  1. Research shows that a reliable treatment of unhappiness is to make the effort to bring joy to others. A concerted effort to do so can be a source of well-being.
  2. Misery loves company, but it creates company too: research shows that unhappy people tend to spread their unhappiness to those around them.
  3. There is growing evidence that a “fake it till you make it” attitude towards personal happiness can help increase overall happiness. This includes a concerted effort to bring joy to others.
  4. Spending money on others and volunteering have both been shown to raise one’s own happiness levels
  5. “By deliberately preparing yourself to cheer up the people around you the way a happy person spontaneously would, you’ll create the conditions by which you can produce your own happiness naturally—and give the gift of happiness to others, as well.”

From Arthur C. Brooks at The Atlantic:
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Why Stress-Baking and Cleaning Make You Less Anxious

Five takeaways:

  1. In the early days of Covid, a baking craze arose. The hashtag #quarantinebaking became so popular that Amazon sold out of popular brands of flour and chocolate chips.
  2. It turns out there is neurological proof that homekeeping and self-care activities such as baking can help stop cycles of anxiety and depression by changing how the human brain self-regulates.
  3. When humans perceive a threat, their amygdala– a region of the brain associated with stress– begins firing. The prefrontal cortex, which regulates emotion, begins working less effectively.
  4. Activities such as baking or bicycling can reset the brain and allow the prefrontal cortex to more effectively regulate emotion. They offer a sense of applied skill and control.
  5. Studies suggest that behavioral activation– as with activities like baking– can be just as effective as meditation in helping to reregulate brain activity. In the anxious early days of lockdown, this was hugely helpful as an escape.

From Sara Harrison at Wired:
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