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Helping Kids Deal with ‘Test Stress’

Many children find doing tests stressful and experience negative impacts on their wellbeing. Tests lead children to suffer from: lost sleep, absenteeism, stress, fear of failure. Encouraging children with these 7 Steps to Success for Tests can be a great opportunity to teach valuable resiliency skills that can be applied to all areas of life! Understand The Power Of Thinking. Teaching children to understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful thinking (e.g. “I [...]

By Shridevi|2015-04-27T12:29:57+10:00April 26th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: children, exams, life skills, Parents, school, stress, support, teachers, tests|0 Comments

3 Step Guide Helping Kids to Calm

A Five Minute Writing Exercise to Help Kids Feel Less Worried and More Confident. There are lots of things we can do to help kids calm themselves.  One of the most important - and sometimes forgotten - is to help them come up with some actual words and phrases that they can repeat to themselves in times of [...]

By Shridevi|2015-04-13T15:15:32+10:00April 13th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Calm, children, emotional intelligence, Parents, psychology, self esteem, teachers, writing|0 Comments

Alertness to Mental Disorders Key to Preventing Youth Suicides

Youth suicide is an immensely complex interplay of social, psychological, neurological, biological and cultural variables. The problem is that these variables carry unequal weights and no single one has been demonstrated to be necessary or sufficient to cause an individual to take their own life. This makes it very difficult to predict whether a young [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2019-04-02T10:43:00+11:00April 1st, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: Depression, education, mental disorders, Parents, school, suicide, young people|0 Comments

Over 66% under 17s in Australia Using Smartphones for Almost a Day in a Week

A new report released by Australia’s Telstra sheds light on the rampant use of smartphones in the country by kids aged three to seventeen and according to the report over 66 per cent of these kids spend almost an entire day on a smartphone out of a week. According to the report children spend an [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-03-23T15:28:21+11:00March 17th, 2015|Categories: Cybersafety, Technology|Tags: children, cyber safety, Parents, sexting, smartphones, technology, Teenagers, telstra|0 Comments

Stay Out of My Child’s Lunch Box

As a brand new school mum, I've recently discovered that schools have assumed the role of the Lunch Box Police. Every morning tea and lunch is a test to see if kids and their parents have faithfully followed the laws of healthy eating. It's a nice idea, but it's questionable whether this has anything to [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-03-09T09:06:25+11:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: binge eat, children, diet, food, food restrictions, Healthy eating, junk food, nutrition, Parents|11 Comments

Lessons from Knox

We were sitting on the grass at the side of Knox Grammar School's main oval in 1987; it must have been in my final few weeks of school. The memory of an awkward moment saying uncomplimentary things about Mr Fotis the religion teacher, while he was sitting behind me popped back into my mind when I saw [...]

By Shridevi|2015-03-10T13:27:50+11:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: Boys, bullying, Knox Grammar School, Parents, sexual abuse, students, teachers|5 Comments

How to Know if Teens Are Getting It Wrong Online

Technology has become the new battlefield for parents, teachers, and teens. Regular conflicts arise over content (what the kids are doing on their devices) and context (when they’re doing it!). Content Issues Ever since the arrival of Facebook in 2004, youth (and adults) have used apps in naive and dangerous ways. Reputations have been harmed. [...]

By Shridevi|2015-02-23T16:18:08+11:00February 23rd, 2015|Categories: Cybersafety|Tags: children, cyber bulling, online, Parents, screen time, Social Media, teachers, technology, Teenagers|0 Comments

Neglect in Childhood Leaves Marks on Brain

Children deprived of loving care have reduced white matter in crucial parts of the brain compared to those raised in a better environment. The observations are not surprising in light of the well-known behavioral effects of neglect, but what this study has done is identify and measure the areas of the brain most affected. The [...]

By Shridevi|2015-02-16T09:26:27+11:00February 16th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: Brain, childhood, children, foster care, neglect, orphan, Parents|0 Comments

Heavy Metal Music has Negative Impacts on Youth

Dr McFerran said parents should be aware of their children’s music listening habits, pick up on early warning signs and take early action. “If parents are worried, they should ask their children questions like – how does that music make you feel? If children say the music reflects or mirrors the way they feel then [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-02-16T00:03:40+11:00February 16th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Technology|Tags: heavy metal, Media, music, Negative emotions, Parents, psychology, Teenagers|0 Comments

Raising Non-Materialistic Children in a Material World

The last few weeks have seen me embark on a clutter clearing frenzy. As I work to eliminate the clutter from my home, filling our rubbish bins and donation boxes to their brim, I can’t help but consider the meaning our society attaches to material objects and how this impacts happiness. So, following another weekend of [...]

By Shridevi|2015-02-09T08:55:56+11:00February 9th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: advertising, children, Happiness, life satisfaction, materalism, Media, Parents, Retail Therapy, Social Psychology|1 Comment