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Social media: May change your kid’s brain

In 2019, WHO (the World Health Organization) published strict guidelines about children’s screen time. Why? Because intensive digital media use is thought to reduce working memory capacity, cause psychological problems from depression to anxiety and sleep disorders, and affects comprehension when reading screens. “Reading complex stories or interconnected facts in a printed book leads to better recall of the story, of details, and of the connections between facts than reading the same text onscreen,” the report says. Last week, an article was published, “I’m a Neurosurgeon. ...

What’s up at the ELCC

The month of October wound up with a “Bang.” The East Liverpool and the Calcutta Rotary clubs participate in the largest International Student Exchange Program in the world. The program is for high school students that sends and receives students from countries around the world. On the weekend of Oct. 27 through 29 there will be a team of exchange students in the East Liverpool area. They will spend the weekend learning of our area history and way of life while visiting various community attractions. Rotarian Linda Henderson is in charge. Saturday night the students will have ...

LaRose lags in raising funds for Senate race

Secretary of State Frank LaRose needed to raise an impressive amount of money in his first filing quarter for the U.S. Senate to show not only that he can compete with the two wealthy Republican candidates in the race but with incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown. But when the financial numbers came out for the third quarter, LaRose reported raising $791,657 from donors while the two other GOP Senate candidates, Bernie Moreno and Matt Dolan, received more. Moreno raised $1,192,655 from donors in the third quarter and Dolan got $1,107,341 from contributors. Also, Moreno and Dolan each gave ...

How do you rate your children’s mental health?

Recently I saw a video discussion by a California politician who said she was a certified teacher and a mother. She does not feel that she is qualified – even as a certified teacher – to deal with the mental health of children. She was teaching her two teenagers to be independent and hoped that if they were struggling they would go to a professional for help. Maybe she didn’t mean it the way I interpreted it. But she was supporting legislature that would give agency to youth to make major life-changing decisions without parental involvement. My first thought: You are ...

Older adults most at risk for loneliness

Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, injuries and impairments that affect older adults. With this in mind, we at the local Visiting Angels office in Salem have created this series of articles to keep our older population and their families informed and to offer some practical advice for meeting the challenges faced by seniors and those who care for them. ——— As human beings, we are hardwired for social interaction. Our ...

Relationship violence is not OK

Healthy relationships are comprised of things like trust, honesty, respect, equality and compromise. Everyone does not see or feel these things in their relationships. According to the youth.gov website, “Teen dating violence is a serious problem in the United States.” The burning question: “Why?” There are five facts about teen dating violence from the National Institute on Justice. These were learned from a survey about teen relationships. — Teen dating relationships that involve violence often involve physical violence from both persons in the relationship. In violent ...