Studio 5

Maybe you have the back-to-school blues, or maybe you’re thrilled for a fresh start. Either way, we’re here to ensure your family starts the semester strong.

Educational Consultant Michelle Love-Day shared three ways to do it.

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At this point of summer, it's easy to fall back on screens and let the kids watch TV and movies more than we'd like them to. But, a good book could be motivation enough to keep your teens and tweens reading!

Provo City Librarian Joella Bagshaw shares seven books kids will love so much - they may even go screen free!

Read more here: https://studio5.ksl.com/down-screen-up-good-read-books-for-tweens/

In today’s digital age, the question of when and how to introduce children to social media is a hot topic among parents.

Celebrity couple Chip and Joanna Gaines have set a hard stance. “Our house rule is you get social media the summer before you go to college. So, we have that time to kind of work through things,” Joanna told Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Today’s 3rd hour.

They aren’t alone. Actress and TV host Drew Barrymore says no to phones. She passionately expressed to her live studio audience, “It is amazing to have wanted so badly for my kids to love me and to love their environment and feel safe, and none of us want our children to resent us, and we don’t want to be their enemy. It is such a hard choice to say, I don’t care if you hate me for this. I don’t care if you’re mad at me for this. I know that I’m doing the right thing by you and I accept your anger.”

The research supports the celebrities concerns too. The book, “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt has been at the center of this conversation. The author claims the decline of a play-based childhood and the rise of a phone-based childhood has contributed largely to the significant increase in anxiety and depression among young people. He advises parents to hold off on smartphones until high school and say no to social media until 16.

But what is the everyday mom doing with this somewhat new, concrete information?

In a recent roundtable discussion with three mothers we admire, friends of the show Kelly Jensen, Emily Bell McCormick, and Shima Baughman shared their experiences and perspectives on social media use and phone privileges in their homes.

A lot of couples think that in a healthy marriage, sexual intimacy should be easy. That it should just come naturally.

Studio 5 Marriage & Family Contributor Dr. Liz Hale says that is just not true. In fact, she says sexual avoidance happens to many couples over a lifetime together.

Nutritionist Ali Essig shares her insight.

Find more advice from Ali on her YouTube channel, and follow her on Instagram, @plantwhys.

Read more here: https://studio5.ksl.com/do-you-really-need-protein-powder-groups-benefit/

Sometimes we have to do things we really don't want to do. Like, make dinner... again. Or clean up dinner... again. These are things that make a house hum, but doing them can get monotonous.

Jessi Berger shares a technique she uses in her daily life to reframe the brain, and in turn, improve her perspective.

Find more advice from Jessi on Instagram, @timemanagement4moms.

Food is a huge part of culture, and French food is no exception. We are building up to the 2024 Paris Summer Games by exploring all of the beautiful aspects of the host country, France.

French teacher Brittany Call says there is a cafe culture there that American women can adopt and appreciate, too.

The museum experience is a highlight of French culture. As the bright Olympic spotlight shines on Paris next month, we wanted to celebrate all of the beauty the French lifestyle has to offer while exploring ways we can experience that romantic, artsy vibe here at home.

Jennie Brasfield finds that feeling in a museum. She says the Utah art scene has a unique connection to France that people might not realize, and shares some fantastic, free museums right here in Utah.

As we're building up to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, we're also celebrating the chance to learn about French culture - a lifestyle we admittedly romanticize and dream about. One distinct lifestyle difference is found in how the French start their day.

We're adding a page to our Studio 5 Paris Playbook with French-American content creator and entrepreneur Cecilia Jourdan of the popular online brand "Hello French." After teaching French for more than a decade, a few years ago Cecilia took those lessons online and started sharing a glimpse of her own American life, as influenced by her French background. She has since amassed more than two million followers online!

Cecilia helped us explore one aspect of French life that differs with how we do things here in America. She shared what a morning meal looks like in France.

Follow Cecilia online, @hellofrenchnyc.

Out of sheer excitement for the Summer Games, we are schooling up on our French culture, adding a page to our Paris Playbook.

French teacher Angie Cooper shared four French phrases you can casually drop while watching the Games.

Read more here: https://studio5.ksl.com/brush-up-high-school-french-4-phrases-use-olympics/