The assumption that clamping down on people who use offensive language will help offended people feel better is dubious. If people want to reduce the likelihood that they will take offense, they will have to spend time talking to safe, loving people who seek to understand them.
Right now the nine year old boy in our house is carrying out some mock combat by himself on the trampoline. I see him through the windows punching the air, then falling onto his back. All his sisters are out with their mum, and we just finished his reading for the week (A scary Goosebumps […]
There are many strategies that can help you pick a partner for life. You could pick based on bodies. Do they have a good one? Physical attraction has its place. You could pick based on brains. Surely respecting a partner’s intellect will help a relationship last?
In this article, I will discuss a powerful and positive way to change aggression in school age children in a school setting, or perhaps in your own family. In comparison to other approaches, the distinctive features of this approach are: 1. The timing of learning opportunities 2. The target behaviour that needs to change Timing […]
The Biologist PZ Myers said in 2010 that “science is what we do to stop us lying to ourselves”. What a curious comment. I like it because it acknowledges the capacity that we have to deceive ourselves. We don’t always want to find the truth.
Christine Bryden suffers from Dementia. She was diagnosed at the young age of 47. In her career she had been the science advisor to the Prime Minister of Australia. She had a beautiful mind, but her ability to think was and still is being taken from her. She was forced to go inward. To ask […]
This is a common question that many of us who ‘re-live’ distressing feelings ask. And it is no wonder. With so many of us having experienced trauma in our lives, reliving an old sense of distress is widespread. So what can you do at the time? Here are a few suggestions.
What would school be like for your children if they did not have the following? Connection with teachers Connection with other students It is terrible to contemplate, isn’t it? It would be plain horrible.
Sarah Turine, Deputy Mayor for Youth in Molenbeek said “I raised the alarm in 2010. I said there was a time-bomb in the district. We have said for a long time, the problem is social order, so all we needed to do was keep (the youth) occupied – make them play football, send them to […]
