Generation Next Blog

April 2013

Kids Giving Back

By |2013-04-29T08:36:57+10:00April 29th, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving a talk to 40 fathers and their sons as part of the Cook for Good program run by the not-for-profit organization, Kids Giving Back.   I have no affiliation with Kids Giving Back other than I occasionally mention them in talks I give.   Kids [...]

‘Insta-pageants’

By |2013-04-28T08:01:47+10:00April 28th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , |

Young girls are sharing their self-taken snaps - known as "selfies" - on the photo-sharing website Instagram to compete in pop-up beauty contests on the site. Adolescent girls – some as young as 10-years-old - upload their photographs with hashtags like #instabeautypageantawards or #instabeautypageant and are willing and ready to be judged on their pictures. [...]

Tom Waterhouse….training our kids to gamble

By |2013-04-28T07:39:22+10:00April 28th, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , |

What are the kids then? Collateral damage? Whether or not the kids are specifically "targeted" by your company is hardly the point? The point is that they ARE hit, regardless. The point is that while the government has the brains to have a ban on gambling advertising on programs children are likely to be watching, [...]

Doctors tired of alcohol damage

By |2013-04-28T07:51:25+10:00April 28th, 2013|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

''Surgeons are now spending an inordinate amount of time on alcohol-related injuries,'' Professor Grigg, a vascular surgeon and professor of surgery at Melbourne's Monash University, said. ''As a result of that we have commissioned our own internal report on this issue to guide our advocacy efforts. We expect to come up against the carefully marshalled [...]

The hunt for drugs to relieve depression in hours rather than weeks

By |2013-04-28T08:08:44+10:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol|Tags: , , , , , , |

The hunt is on for a faster-acting, more effective antidepressant. Current treatments for depression, including drugs like Prozac and Celexa, often take a month or more to give patients relief—and they don't work for everyone. Now, researchers and several pharmaceutical companies are testing medications that early studies are showing can lift mood in just a [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow promoting bikinis to four year olds

By |2013-04-27T21:51:34+10:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

Paltrow's website, Goop, is promoting a range of bikinis for girls as young as four. The Melissa Odabash bikinis are normally worn by celebrities like Rihanna and Paltrow herself, but the latest range is designed for little girls. via Gwyneth Paltrow | Bikini | Girls.

It’s Time to Write the Violence OUT of Children’s Books

By |2013-04-23T03:31:44+10:00April 23rd, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , |

Naomi Cook is a Registered Nurse, Health Activist and Author of an up and coming children’s Trilogy called “The Pharaoh Prophecies”. Here she shares her thoughts on the rising amount of violence in kids books and how she thinks we are harming the psychological wellbeing of our youth through violent trends in literature.   I [...]

Cleo magazine- sex doesn’t sell anymore

By |2013-04-27T21:46:21+10:00April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture, Technology|Tags: , , , , |

More than 40 years after shaking up women's magazines with its racy mix of centrefolds and sealed sections, Cleo magazine is starting another revolution by dropping sex from the cover. New editor Sharri Markson believes it is the first time since the magazine was launched in 1972 that sex has not been used as a selling [...]

Schools put students in charge of own technical support

By |2013-04-22T02:16:59+10:00April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

As companies debate the merits of allowing employees to bring their own smartphones and computers to work, another sector is forging ahead allowing a younger generation to do just that and more. Some schools are not only allowing students to bring laptops and tablets to class in keeping with the trend known as BYO device [...]

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