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Portugal and Spain preparing opinion on social media
Concerned about the negative impact of social media on children, the Portuguese and Spanish ethics councils are finalizing a joint opinion that will be presented soon with recommendations for families, institutions, and companies.
22 hours ago6 min read


Balance for Parents: How to Find Time for Your Child’s Sports Activities in a New Country
Immigration is more than just changing your address – it’s a full restart of your life. A new school, new language, new friends, new habits, and even a new daily rhythm. While adults somehow manage through work and household routines, children often experience change more acutely: through mood swings, fatigue, or withdrawal. One of the gentlest and most natural ways to help a child regain confidence and joy is through sports.
Oct 286 min read


Community and Sports: How Joint Activities Help Integration
Immigration is a marathon, not a sprint. Integration into a new culture, language, and rhythm of life takes time, support, and energy. And, surprisingly, sport often becomes the shortest path to integration. It doesn't require perfect Portuguese, doesn't divide people into "us" and "them"; on the contrary, it unites people through movement, emotions, and common goals.
Oct 146 min read


Finding Time for What You Actually Care About
Have you ever had one of those Sundays where you look back and think, "What did I even do today?" You were busy the whole time, but accomplished nothing you cared about. Instead, you reorganized your sock drawer and somehow spent forty minutes arguing with strangers on the internet about whether hot dogs are sandwiches.
Sep 267 min read


Immigration and Rock Climbing: A School for Overcoming Fears
Immigration and rock climbing teach the same thing: you're afraid all the time, but you keep moving forward anyway.
Sep 217 min read


How to Beat Laziness and Become More Productive: The Pomodoro Method and Its Secrets
We all know what procrastination feels like. But there’s a simple time-management technique that has helped students, professionals, and creatives around the world stay focused for decades: the Pomodoro Technique.
Sep 34 min read


Is AI Making Us Stupid? And How to Stop It
It’s a worry many share — if we hand over too much thinking to machines, do we risk losing our own?
Aug 173 min read


Journey to Portugal, a Painter's Story
When I was a small boy growing up in North Carolina, my great-grandmother gifted me a globe. I spent endless hours staring at every single country, at regions, oceans, and all the exotic names that were abstractions to a young boy’s eyes.
Jun 226 min read


Flexible mind: how to change your thinking and change your life
Moving to another country is always a challenge. New language, new rules, new you. But you know what's the most important thing about this transformation? Not credentials or skills. It's how you think. That's what Carol Dweck's book Flexible Mindset is all about - a modern psychology classic that can be your compass in any life change.
May 293 min read


Habits at the personality level - psyche, thinking, skills
When a person moves to another country, it is as if he starts to reassemble himself. It is habits that help him to build an inner support, adapt and maintain a sense of wholeness. On a personal level, habits are the structure of daily life that supports the psyche, strengthens thinking and develops new skills.
May 12 min read


For those who write, speak and think out loud
We talk about health, identity, environment, society, values and eternal questions - honestly, simply, deeply.
Apr 291 min read


How to prepare for a storm while sitting on a sun lounger
A method that helps you meet future stress not with panic, but with preparedness.
Apr 292 min read


When psychology works like a vaccine
It's a psychological technique whose essence is to prepare you for future stress so that it doesn't crush you, but skips past you like a mosquito past your ear.
Apr 292 min read
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