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How Reading Improves Your Writing

October 5, 2021 Mental Health, Writing No comments
How Reading Improves Your Writing

The easiest way to improve your writing is simply to read!

How Reading Improves Your Writing

One of the most effective ways to improve your writing is to read. By reading more, you are exposed to different writing styles and new ideas. When you read content on a wide variety of subjects, you simply gain more knowledge about the world that you can then incorporate into your writing. You also learn different writing styles, new words, and how to structure your writing more effectively just by taking in written words by other writers.

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5 Benefits of Volunteering or Doing Community Service

October 4, 2021 Mental Health No comments
5 Benefits of Volunteering

Volunteering has many benefits for both the community and the volunteers themselves.

5 Benefits of Volunteering or Doing Community Service

Volunteering benefits not only those you are helping but also yourself. Though you most likely are volunteering (or thinking about volunteering) because you want to help others and/or do some good in your community, volunteering also comes with some lasting benefits for the volunteer.

Whether you are volunteering to help your community, individuals, animals, or the environment, what you get back from your acts of service can be worth just as much as the work you put in. Below, we explore five of the main benefits of volunteering in your community.

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The Many Social Benefits of Playing Video Games

January 1, 2018 Gaming, Mental Health No comments
A gamer holding an Xbox 360 controller.

I wrote this article as a research paper for one of my classes at LCCC and recently published it on HubPages because I thought parents of gamers and younger gamers might find it interesting and informative. Since this blog covers video game related topics, I thought it would be useful to share it with my readers here. This article covers how video games may help children to learn valuable social skills. In this article, I discuss how multiplayer and co-operative video games can be particularly useful in helping individuals on the autism spectrum develop social skills.

The Many Social Benefits of Playing Video Games

Introduction

Though video games have become a popular pastime for children and adults alike in recent years, negative stereotypes of gamers still persist. Conventional wisdom suggests that children and adults who spend a lot of their free time playing video games are socially inept and that video games may stunt the social development of children. But is this true? Recent research suggests that video games may have many social benefits and that certain types of games may even help boost social skills in children who struggle socially, such as those on the autism spectrum.

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