Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers.

It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages.

That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected.

The updated policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics comes after years of shrinking recesses and worsening children’s health.

The group “has always supported play – free play for kids – but it’s been increasingly threatened over time.”

This is occurring partly by the drive for higher test scores, said Dr. Robert Murray, a lead author.

Social development on the playground is as important as intellectual development in the classroom!

“It has a very powerful benefit if it’s used to the fullest.” (CNN)

Yes!

I’m serious.

We should treat all the women in our lives with the love we showed yesterday!

And do it everyday.

I made a trip to the grocery store yesterday.

You should have seen all the men running out the door with flowers for their lady.

Will those men bring her flowers on any other day of the year?

If not, why not?

She is a gift from GOD and should be treated as such!!!

There is no greator love than a mother for her child!

It involves all the physical, psychological and emotional ties that uniquely bind the two together.

Even before birth, the mother is nurturing 24/7.

She gives all of herself and keeps on giving as long as she lives.

She is her child’s greatest “fan” throughout his or her lifetime.

Sometimes mom receives love in return from her child throughout her life. Sometimes not.

There is no greater act of love than a mother’s for her child.

And it is given freely without conditions!

Celebrate your mom every day, even if she is not perfect.

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I am offering it only as an example of resources designed to make the later years more manageable.

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That’s why every issue features dozens of articles written by foremost experts on aging issues and real-life stories detailing solutions that have worked for others. (NYT)

ROBERT FROST 1916

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by.

And that has made all the difference.”

The phrase is widely used to encourage an unconventional path

and taking personal responsibility for one’s life!

Can you think of a direction for your life that could bring you more happiness?

Maybe you are living on that path now.

Or, maybe another path could “make all the difference.”

Using social media isn’t likely to strengthen your friendships and could even make you lonelier.

This is the result of a study published Wednesday in Public Health Reports, the official journal of the US Public Health Service.

Adults with a greater percentage of social media connections whom they hadn’t ever met in person were lonelier.

This was according to the survey of over 1,500 Americans ages 30 to 70 years old.

What’s more, connecting with more close friends on social media didn’t make people less lonely.

Much research shows that having offline friends makes people less lonely.

But connecting with friends online clearly is “just not the same.” (CNN)

Ted Turner died today at the age of 87!

He had a simple idea that he built into an international empire.

THE IDEA:

People shouldn’t come home at 6:30PM and have to wait for the news at 11PM.

The News should be available 24/7 to people around the world!

If a worldwide audience saw the same news together, there might be fewer wars.

He was a risk taker and visionary!

May he rest in peace!

A Yale University researcher found that people who have positive views about aging live, on average, 7 ½ years longer than those who don’t.

How does that happen? How could that be?

A positive view of aging might be something like believing that growth is possible at any age versus a negative view of aging that involves inevitable decline. Which one is true? They’re both true.

Belief itself is not what changes your biology. It’s just the first step.

What happens to somebody when they believe growth is possible at any age versus somebody else who says, “Aging involves inevitable decline”?

How does the person who says, “I’m having a senior moment” behave? They behave old.

So, it turns out it’s not magic. Your beliefs become your biology by way of behavior. (CNN)

Are you worrying about some possible event in the future?

Is your mind creating various scenarios?

Have you put that thought as something to worry about today?

Well, have you?

Most of us don’t live today fully!

We only live today partially.

And so we won’t accomplish what we should, or could have.

And the greatest irony of all is that tomorrow’s worry NEVER turns out the way we thought it would.

What a waste!

I’m 84 years old.

Today, I have an entirely new appreciation for a minute of time.

I happen to wear an Apple Watch.

It has a face that doesn’t count time in digits.

It counts each minute with a uniquely drawn graphic.

And the graphic remains for 1 minute until a new graphic appears.

It is the most compelling depiction of the slow, grinding passage of time I’ve ever seen.

It’s very sobering to be confronted with all the minutes I’ve wasted in my lifetime.

Make a commitment to spend your minutes more wisely than I have!

If not today, when?