Personal Digest: Colleges adapt as many students juggle parenthood
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nearly 1 in 5 students are parents — Colleges are expanding resources and supports to keep education accessible for student-parents as the share of enrolled students who have children rises.
| ParentingParenting rewrites: support, screen-smarts, and cooperative households Higher Education (thecollegefix.com) · Child discipline (aol.com) · Screen time (thoughtcatalog.com) |
 | Mental HealthBig tech, meds, and messy systems collide in mental-health headlines Artificial Intelligence (tomsguide.com) · Ketamine (bbc.co.uk) · Antidepressant (yahoo.com) |
 | NeuroscienceNew drugs and old questions: memory, anesthesia, and overthinking Schizophrenia (biospace.com) · Anesthesia (mindmatters.ai) · Rumination (scienceblog.com) |
 | PsychologyCulture, attention, and rituals shape how minds ruminate and cope Rumination (psypost.org) · Superstition (theguardian.com) · Handwriting (psychologytoday.com) |
 | Emotional intelligenceEmotional smarts win where robots can’t: parenting, grief, and workplaces Gender Role (dominicanewsonline.com) · Grief (sg.style.yahoo.com) · Parenting (creators.yahoo.com) |
 | TraumaTrauma's long shadow: molecular marks, wildfire scars, and cut-off families Neuroscience (wired.me) · Wildfires (cbc.ca) · Family estrangement (siliconcanals.com) |
 | Chronic illnessClimate, bugs, booze — chronic illness faces stacked risks Climate Change (independent.co.uk) · Alcohol (drug) (google.com) · Social Isolation (timesfreepress.com) |
 | Trauma-informed careDocumenting abuse to improve care: survivors in religious communities |
 | Social emotional learningSEL adapts: special needs programs, Gen Z research, and Head Start tweaks Special Education (advertiserandtimes.co.uk) · Psychology (dailyexcelsior.com) · Head Start (mauinow.com) |
 | Emotional painWhen perfectionism hurts: repressed feelings and chronic back pain |
 | EducationClassrooms at a crossroads: AI, shrinking degrees, and a fraying preschool safety net Artificial Intelligence (chosun.com) · Head Start (washingtonpost.com) · Bachelor's degree (community.triblive.com) |