Fun and play are just as essential as sleep or nutrition to a healthy life, says play researcher Stuart Brown. But a lot of the time, the actual activities that we consider fun can financially burden ...

Budgets have a bad rap. We know how useful they are, and still we resist them. Maybe it's because budgets are like over-protective parents who are always saying no; and we really want our budget to be ...

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Search "how to have fun" on Google and literally billions of search results come up. People pay hundreds of dollars to hire party coaches and play coaches. There are seminars and workshops on how to ...

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New research from University College London and the University of Florida suggests that the number of people in the U.S. who read for pleasure is declining Getty A new study published on Aug. 20 by ...

It was Harry Potter — or, actually, his buddy Hermione Granger — who made my 6-year-old granddaughter enthusiastic about learning to read. She was reasonably interested in reading before that, though ...

Julia Ries Wexler is a writer focusing on all things health and wellness. She has over 10 years of experience in health journalism, and though she has written about pretty much every health topic ...