For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
How do you help your child be resilient? Researcher Dr. Michael Ungar of Dalhousie University has outlined the nine things that all children and teens need to be resilient and the strategies to help them grow. Structure Consequences Parent-child connections Lots and...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
‘New 18 now is 28’: How screens delay teens’ emotional maturity – June 14, 2019 – CBC News The big question is why the delay? Rates of self-harm have increased among teens in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe. This is a concern in part because those...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Some highlights to mull over from a long yet interesting article – Put Down the Self Help Books: Resilience is not a DIY Endeavour by Michael Ungur – Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience, a professor of social work at Dalhousie...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Helicopter parenting is so 20th Century! Today’s “snowplow parents” keep their children’s futures obstacle-free — even when it means crossing ethical and legal boundaries. Snowplowing has gone so far, they say, that many young people are in crisis, lacking...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Mindfulness lessons are quickly growing in popularity in England as an antidote to stress the of being a young person in the 21st century. Does it work? There is the concern about avoiding the” quick fix approach.” England’s Department for Education...
