5 Ways to Foster Self-Compassion in Your Child
5 Ways to Foster Self-Compassion in Your Child | Parenting Tips | Self-Esteem, Amy Chua & Tiger Mothers | LiveScience.
Teenage sex offenses increase, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show
SEXUAL assaults and related offenses committed by school-aged children have almost quadrupled in four years. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that between 2007 and 2011 the number of offenses jumped from 430 to 1709 across the nation. Experts believe the greater and easier access children now have to pornographic material via the internet is [...]
Tips for ensuring good mental health in children
25% of people with a mental disorder experience their first episode before they are 12 years old.* The Australian Medical Association (AMA) Vice President, Professor Geoffrey Dobb, said that “Good mental health is vital to our wellbeing - it allows us to think and learn and interact meaningfully with others.” The main influences on a [...]
GetYaHeadRight Film Competition Announcement
The GetYaHeadRight Film Competition has now closed, thanks for your entries everyone! We have received so many great films! The panel of judges will have a hard time choosing the winners. Special Announcement Introducing the Peoples’ Choice Award Have your say! Now it’s your time to choose the best film! View all the Secondary School [...]
Culture of Misogyny
What germ have colleges contracted to produce such a rank, diseased culture? What is wrong with the overly-privileged? How can violence and abuse be so widespread yet NEVER punished? And why are the old boys’ networks so intent on protecting criminality? Given that you can’t really fault those charming neo-Gothic buildings, let’s start with the [...]
The Virtuous Cycle
(Genuine) Engagement & Wellbeing enhance achievement, yet how many schools pursue achievement at the expense of engagement and wellbeing? The following is an extract from my recently published manifesto, “Still Trying to Find X”. It is essential that we create a Virtuous Cycle for all students in our schools. The Virtuous Cycle relies on having positive relationships at its heart or [...]
Kids With Stressed-Out Parents Eat More Fast Food
Stress in parents may contribute to obesity in their kids, and as parental stress rises the kids are more likely to eat fast food, a new study finds. The research has caveats. It doesn't definitively prove that kids put on more pounds when they live with stressed-out adults. And, oddly, the study found that kids [...]
10 Scientific Tips For Raising Happy Kids
10 Scientific Tips For Raising Happy Kids | Moms, Dads, Families & Children | The Science of Parenting | LiveScience.
The mythic origins of star wars and the matrix
In 1949 Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) made a big splash in the field of mythology with his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. This book built on the pioneering work of German anthropologist Adolph Bastian (1826-1905), who first proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same [...]
Fat chance this will work – and they know it
WeightWatchers served up a super-sized offering of hypocrisy with the launch of its Plate of Our Nation campaign. Earlier this month the diet company teamed up with the chef and co-host of My Kitchen Rules, Pete Evans, to launch what it calls a ''national movement'' to ''investigate the root causes of Australia's growing obesity problem [...]