Shared Links (weekly) Feb 1, 2026
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Sharing – The Fun Is Why
I feel like this is something that has gotten continuously worse over the years too. Kids who never get to just play, but are fully booked with one after-school activity after another. Teens are under constant pressure to spend their time doing things that look good on college applications. College-aged young adults are about filling out the resume or getting into the best graduate school programs, only to graduate into jobs that expect them to always be on call, to learn and grow themselves on their own time, all while social media culture tells them they should also have a side-hustle or three.
Having fun is time that could be spent on any of these accomplishments.
I’d flip that around. What’s the point of all of those accomplishments if you never have any fun?
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Guideposts for Surviving a Loved One’s Suicide How to Deal with an Anxiety Attack Stigma: Persevering in the face of negative perception What It Takes to Be an Mental Health Advocate: An Interview With Christina Huff Promoting A Better System Of Care For Mental Health Linked – Protecting your children from online predators and grooming…
Sharing – Internet access is linked to higher well-being, new global study reveals
These observational studies clearly tell us that being online could be both good and bad for us, and that may depend on what kind of shape we were in when we opened the browser today and what we chose to do while online.
Reviews Elsewhere – Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Kevin Eikenberry, who blogs on leadership, has a quick write up of this book, obviously written from the perspective of being a leader and helping identify loneliness in your own life, and the lives of those who follow you in the workplace. That being said, I thought the subject really applied to us when it…
