Science-backed or old school: Family wellbeing practices that work

Science now supports many wellbeing measures that past generations knew were good for kids.

It’s good to know that past generations of parents put kids’ wellbeing front and centre, even if they weren’t so sure of the benefits .

Modern neuroscience tells us that we should be practising many of the strategies that our parents intuitively knew were good for us, such as:

“Go outside and play”

This common parental phrase, at times, uttered from sheer …