April is Stress Awareness Month and in the next few blogs I would love to share some thoughts and information with you about this critically important issue. Here is the first piece of information you might have not thought about. Stress and joy cannot co-exist. What this means is that the higher your stress levels are, [...]
People ask me why I call my program Parents,Take Charge! and Teachers, Take Charge! ‘Take Charge of what?’ they ask me. I tell them that it’s about parents and teachers Taking Charge! of the wellbeing of their children’s bodies, brains and spirits. First and foremost parents and teachers need to Take Charge of the stressful, [...]
When I asked a focus group I conducted with kids between 7 and 11 years of age, what their top three stresses are, they all agreed the No. 1 stress in their lives is achievement stress, as discussed in my previous blog, The Lower the Stress, the Higher the Grades. I could have guessed that, [...]
In my previous blog, If You Want To Know About Stress, Ask the Kids, I indicated that it was the first of a 3-part series on what children in a focus group told me about stress. As I started to write this second part today, I realized that there is so much vitally important information [...]
If you want to know the real truth about anything, described in graphic and honest detail, ask kids. That’s exactly what a TV station and I did in South Africa – we conducted a focus group with children between the ages of seven and twelve to discover how they interpret stress and what they do [...]
Doesn’t this make you mad?! Study shows that one million children may be misdiagnosed with ADHD. http://www.fightingdepression.co.uk/almost-1-million-children-wrongly-diagnosed-with-adhd If you click on the link and read this very short and shocking article and you will know why I say that the time has come for Parents to TAKE CHARGE! It seems to me that we [...]
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