How to Build Self Esteem in Kids

April 27th, 2012 admin

It goes without saying that bringing up kids is a difficult job; you have to adopt a comprehensive approach so that your kid can grow up to be a well balanced human being with a well groomed personality. If your child has a low self esteem then you should take some steps to have a high self esteem, if your child thinks that he is of no worth then chances that he may never achieve his/her goals in life. There are a plenty of ways that you can help your child have a high self esteem, some of them are given below.Self Esteem in Kids

One of the best ways how to build self esteem in kids is to appreciate their talents; this will make them realize that what they do is valuable. The author of famous Life-Span development, John Santrock is of the view that parents should value whatever talents their kids possess as it will help them further improve on their talents, which will help them a great deal in future. If on the other hand if their talents are not valued, they will lose heart and may never try to improve. If you as parents value academic excellence higher than sports and your kid happens to be good in sports and lags behind when it comes to studies then you should encourage instead of criticizing him or her, because if you criticize your kids for being good at sports it will result in your kid developing low self esteem and he will never recover from it to be good at both sports and studies. However, if you appreciate the sports talents of your kid, it will encourage him/her to better in other fields as well.

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Breast Cancer ,Depression And Exercise

April 25th, 2012 admin

Breast cancer is regarded as one of the most dangerous diseases in the world and is spreading throughout the world. The breast cancer patients normally go through depression and fatigue after the treatment, among many other side effects. To the delight of all those breast cancer patients, the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine presented a study which claimed that exercise can help a breast cancer patient cope with the side effects that are part and parcel of breast cancer treatment. As depression as well as fatigue is the leading side effect that a majority of women go through after the treatment, however some physical activity can help them put depression at bay as well as be in a good shape to avoid the state of tiredness.breast_cancer_depression

The study was based on women who were diagnosed with non metastatic breast cancer; the period of study was between four to ten weeks in which women who underwent breast cancer surgeries were analyzed. Those breast cancer patients who were analyzed for a period of weeks also got to learn the cognitive behavioral stress management techniques whereas the women, who were analyzed for less than 10 weeks time period, participated in one day groups. The study also analyzed the exercise time that the participants of the study got so as to establish the relationship of exercise on the mood and physical health of the participants.

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Looking Outside Yourself

April 25th, 2012 admin
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Who Will Teach Me About Hate ?

April 25th, 2012 admin
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A Penny Saved Today . . . Against Bullying

April 23rd, 2012 admin

It goes without saying that no matter how bigger problem we are facing in this world, if we play our individual roles in our individual capacities we can solve it easily. This is exactly what was highlighted by the students of an elementary school in Chicago. The small kids of the Chicago’s LaSalle II Magnet elementary school situated in the neighborhood of Buck town are collecting pennies so that they can make a big amount of it, to be spent on a motivational speaker who will give a motivational speech on bullying to the school students so that students may be aware of the consequences of bullying on their mind as well as on the victim’s mind.school anti-bullying campaign

The campaign is called “Penny War” in which all classes are in a competition to collect pennies, so that they can sponsor school’s anti-bullying campaign. According to the Student Council Coordinator, last year students collected a sum of 1200 US dollars, which is awesome. The sum was spent on a motivational speech on how to prevent bullying in the school and considering the fact that it is always good to nip the evil in the bud, this exercise can really help students to prepare themselves against bullies. This exercise is also important in the sense that the motivational speech can have a positive impact on the minds of potential bullies so if they realize the seriousness of bullying and the consequences it can bring, it will deter them to be involved in such a behavior when they grow up.

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Canberra Institute of Technology “CIT” versus Bullying

April 23rd, 2012 admin

The battle against bullying continues and so far it seems that we are on the losing side because bullying in general and cyber bullying in particular is going unabated. This is really disappointing state of the affairs considering the awareness and continued efforts put in place to put curbs on bullying, which so far have brought no results.  Canberra Institute of Technology CIT has recently hit the headlines after being directed by the Government to protect its employees from bullying.Canberra Institute of Technology

A report by Work Safe ACT has shown the loopholes in the systems put in place by CIT to protect its employees from bullying, the report claims that the Canberra Institute of Technology “CIT” systems actually protect the bullies and discourage the employees to speak out or raise voice against bullying behavior they face. In a period of 3 years from 2008-2011 a total of 7 cases of bullying of serious nature have been reported in different workplaces of Canberra Institute of Technology. The Work Safety Commissioner was of the view that Canberra Institute of Technology had a culture of discouraging the victims of bullying from raising their voice to protest or complain against the treatment meted out to them.

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Probing of Bullying Claim by A Lady Soldier

April 20th, 2012 admin

The cases of Cyber and other forms of bullying keep making the headlines and it is becoming a routine matter but nonetheless a grave and serious matter that deserves to be the cause of a great concern until and unless it is put an end to. The latest case of bullying resulted suicide that is making headlines nowadays is related to Anne Marie Ellement, a 30 year old Corporal, belonging to Dorset. She was found hanging at Bulford Barracks in the month of October, last year. She alleged her two fellows of Royal Military Police of raping her, when she was drunk and later hung herself to death.Anne Marie Ellement

She did lodged a complaint against her fellow officers at Royal Military Police, but the prosecutors didn’t bring the charge, because the alleged rapists branded Anne Marie Ellement as a liar and denied the allegations. The sister of Anne Marie Ellement told that her sister emailed to her friend prior to her suicide and told her the anguish and mental trauma that she was undergoing after her rape.

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Cyber Bullies have a League of their Own

April 17th, 2012 admin

After so much awareness and actions taken on the part of Governments across the world the menace of Cyber bullying doesn’t seem to have an end in sight. Cyber bullying has been and continues to be the subject of extensive research, pointing out the root causes and mindset behind bullying. A recent study carried out Sherill Hemphill, Psychology professor at Australian Catholic University has led to the conclusion that the educational institutions as well as psychologists need to be back to the drawing board in order to hit the root causes of bullying in general and cyber bullying in particular and come up with solutions that can have deliver the results.cyber-bullying

The above mentioned research or study analyzed 700 Victorian; international studies students throughout their period of 5 to 9 years. To your surprise, 43 percent of the total students accepted their involvement is some form of bullying where as 15 percent accepted their involvement in cyber bullying. Moreover, 21 percent of the students confessed face to face bullying and the remaining 7 percent were involved in face to face as well as cyber bullying.

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Signs of Depression In Your Little Angel

April 4th, 2012 admin

Generally speaking, depression is thought of as a mental condition that is associated with the adults and grown-ups only and the fact that even the young children can develop depression seems far -fetched to a majority of people. But this thinking is not without a reason as there’s been little or no medical research in this area and it would not be wrong to say that depression in small children, falling in the age bracket of 3-6 years is a fairly new field or area of study.Signs of Depression In Your Little Angel

It is due to lack of research and awareness people find it hard to accept a child suffering from depression and the fact that the signs and symptoms of a child suffering from depression are completely different as compared to the signs and symptoms that appear in adults when suffering from depression, makes it all the more difficult to imagine a child developing depression. Given the fact that children have nothing to do with the responsibilities that an adult has to shoulder, therefore they are thought to literally have nothing to worry about and hence the misconception that young children can’t suffer from depression. But the reality is completely opposite to what we generally think.

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