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Sharing – How Stories Help Children Build Emotional Intelligence
ByMikeM March 7, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s not just a lack of children’s stories that could help them develop these skills; it’s a lack of adults who can provide the example of those skills in action. It’s almost as if we don’t see the issues with emotional intelligence and mental health among young people as something older generations contributed to, by not being able to pass on our own stories as examples, because we didn’t have the skills either. We just grew up in a time when talking about it was considered taboo, and look how well that has turned out for us.

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Sharing – Media literacy and mental health go hand in hand
ByMikeM March 6, 2026March 5, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The impacts of this lack of media literacy can be found in some of the mental health struggles we have across society, with anxiety, stress, burnout, etc. We’re overwhelmed by information with no tools to manage it effectively. We don’t know what’s true, so we keep scrolling for answers that aren’t coming.

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Sharing – The AI child exploitation crisis is here
ByMikeM March 2, 2026March 1, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s not like we didn’t know this would happen. We knew. The industry just didn’t care:

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Sharing – Childhood trauma is linked to different aging patterns in the midlife brain
ByMikeM February 28, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

This is another reminder that there’s no excuse to dismiss the damage done to human beings when they are abused. Kids do not get over it, or barely remember it. They are impacted in myriad ways well into adulthood. Not doing everything we can to limit trauma, let alone arguing for policies that create more trauma for certain groups of children, cannot be tolerated.

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Sharing – Killing disclosure: The unspoken effect of the death penalty for child rapists in Louisiana
ByMikeM February 26, 2026February 25, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve gotten some grief online for suggesting that murdering people who abuse children isn’t what the victim needs. Maybe, if you hear it from an expert, you’ll understand what I feel as a survivor who wouldn’t have told anyone if I knew it could lead to the death of another person, even my abuser.

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An Underrated Risk of AI to Our Mental Health
ByMikeM February 25, 2026February 28, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Creative work has therapeutic benefits. Doing the work is the point, not the end result. AI can get you the end result faster, but it takes away the healing power of doing the work ourselves. I do worry that we will lose that in the rush to monetize anything we create, quickly and efficiently.

There are fantastic benefits for our minds in doing the work ourselves. I use AI for many things, but I also know how much I enjoy taking pictures, writing, teaching, etc. Why would I deprive myself of things I enjoy? That’s part of being human.

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