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Three key gaps underlie the challenges we face in keeping our kids safe in cyberspace: a knowledge gap, a mentoring gap and an expert gap. The knowledge gap: “It’s a new area, a new addition to our culture and we adults need to rapidly catch up.” Said Dr Ramesh Manocha, medico and researcher at Sydney Uni's Dept of Psyhciatry. The [...]
Last year, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Felicia Huppert, a well-known researcher in the field of wellbeing. She has advised and informed the UK Governments policy making in the area of mental capital and wellbeing. Amongst other things, she introduced me to the work of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) who in their [...]
Live a life you won’t regret. Bronnie Ware is an Australian palliative care nurse who looks after patients in the last twelve weeks of their lives. She has turned a blog about her conversations with these individuals into a book entitled The Top Five Regrets of the Dying published by Hay House in the UK. [...]
Failure has to be an option! Tal Ben Shahar often talks about this concept -That if we cannot accept failing as a natural part of the learning process, then we never genuinely learn anything new. Yet too many students – and indeed schools – frame their educational model and practices around avoiding mistakes. Failure is [...]
Individuals who say they have family and friends they can count on to help them in times of trouble are consistently more likely to be satisfied with their personal health via Social Support Linked to Health Satisfaction Worldwide.
Modesty is no longer a virtue in contemporary society - in the news or in real life. Despite the risks of sharing intimate details online, internet and phone technology continues to feature strongly in women's romantic relationships, according to a survey of 18-40 year old women in the USA. Is it any wonder that our young people are [...]
Here's a great list of useful tips to keep teenagers safe online. Useful for teachers, parents or anyone who works with young people. 1-Reinforce the public nature of the Internet and let your adolescent know you will supervise online activity. 2-Adolescents are more likely follow the rules when you let them know you will be monitoring [...]
"Young people must have the skills to reject a sexuality that eroticises degradation and violence as it undermines their ability to have healthy and fulfilling intimate relationships" via Teachers urged to address porn factor. Mental Health & Wellbeing of Young People Seminars If you want to find out more about the [...]
According to a study conducted last year by researchers at the University of Cambridge, one in five people in Britain admitted that they did not always feel in control of their use of communication technologies and one in three felt overwhelmed to the point of needing to escape from them. via Are you addicted to [...]
Very religious Americans of all major faiths have higher overall wellbeing than do their respective counterparts who are moderately religious or nonreligious. This relationship, based on an analysis of more than 676,000 interviews as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, is statistically significant after controlling for major demographic and regional variables. via In U.S., Very [...]
