The Wynk – Loves make a Family

It is still largely a mystery why we humans need to engage in something as inactive as sleep. Among other things, sleep is believed to be necessary for the brain to be able to store memories and new information. But it is also during sleep that the body produces hormones and repairs damage that has occurred during the day. The problem is that it makes it late into the sleep cycle. Our sleep consists of five different phases: from phase 1 when we sleep very lightly to phase 4 when we sleep very deeply and finally phase 5 when we sleep so-called REM sleep when we dream. This is why everyone in the family should keep to their sleeping routines, and tend to the quality of sleep. Make sure everyone’s bedroom is well darkened during the night hours, aired and cool, the bedding is comfortable and medically proven like an orthopedic pillow and mattress, and the screen time ends well before bedtime. Different family members need different amount of sleep based on age We need all the sleep cycles to ...

More physical activity spells less stress Everyone in your family has the same number of hours a day. But not everyone is equally stressed. Why is that so? You might argue that your kids do not have two mortgages to pay off, three mouths to feed, a job to keep and a dog to walk, but the fact is, they also have their fair share of stress cut to their own measure, with the school, growing and learning to be human. One thing that makes them more adapted to cope with the daily stress is the amount of time they spend doing physical activity. Even if they clock in a decent amount of time at their computers and on their phones, they still get some motion biking to and from school, attending sports clubs or physical education lessons. There are many scientific studies that show that physical activity has a very effective antidepressant effect, to the point that it can be considered a real antidepressant drug. This action is most evident in "neurotic" depressions from which none of us are ...

The link between marital statistics and education The researchers from Pew Research Center established the tendency of people with college education to have a more successful family life: the number of married post-graduates was by 12% higher than their less educated peers. So what is the correlation between a college degree and a personal fulfillment in a family life?  Let’s brush aside the lifestyle factors that increase the chances of meeting that someone special on a campus, and focus on the type of personality it takes to go for college education. Motivated individuals with critical thinking and a strong desire to improve the quality of life for themselves and their future children usually start in life by majoring in the field of science. All those qualities are equally required to be successful in personal life, especially analytical thinking that enables one to work on problems and solve them, rather than give up and quit early on in a relationship. Besides, those who take a long way to professional success do not expect things to fall from the sky, and the ...

Healthy diet for the whole family: the importance of eating together Aiming for a healthy and balanced diet must be a priority for the whole family, especially during the time of seasonal infections. But how difficult it is to get everyone to agree at the table! One family member has to be more careful and keep his cholesterol values ​​under control, another often skips lunch or eats a sandwich in a hurry to reconcile work and time for the family, children are inevitably attracted to junk food, they hate soups or anything that has the semblance of presenting itself as a healthy dish. A table laid out in such a way as to bring together all the members of the family seems like a mirage. Still, we managed to scrape by some useful tips for a healthy diet for the whole family. It is very important that the whole family, as far as possible, consume at least one meal together during the day. Normally this meal is dinner. It would be ideal, from a very young age, to accustom children ...