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These activities provide opportunities to build skills, provide social opportunities, enhance your future employability and can provide a productive break from study. Visit the extracurricular ...

A study finds that children who demonstrate more "pro-social" skills — those who share more and who are better listeners — are more likely to have jobs and stay out of trouble as young adults. Put ...

Psychologists have long warned that children’s lives are overscheduled, which undermines their ability to develop non-academic skills that they’ll need in adulthood, from coping with setbacks to ...