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Paul Hench provides advice to help freshman control stress during the transition to college.
Dr. Brian MacDonald has been thinking about why he blogs about parenting science.
The Good Men Project Magazine
Father’s Day is coming – that means families all over North America will be thinking about dads, and what it means to be a good one. The people over at The Good Men Project Magazine, a non-profit organization promoting positive behaviour and responsibility among at-risk men and boys, are releasing a special issue to celebrate Father’s Day. Here’s their press release:
Issue Highlights: June 16, 2010
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My kids worked on Earth Day projects at school today. They wrote letters to “Mother Earth” and brought home little trees to plant in the yard. It reminded me of something – a little while ago, I received an email from a German organization, kaufDA, which plants trees to balance the CO2 produced by the computers and servers necessary to make blogging posible. According to the statistics posted on their site, the average blog generates 3.6 kg of CO2 in a year; this information is based on a study by Dr. Wissner-Gross, a physicist who calculated that a pageview results in the production of 0.02 g of carbon dioxide.
The “Make Your Blog Carbon Neutral” program plants a tree in honour of participating blogs. Since a tree absorbs about 5kg of CO2 in a year, the program effectively balances the carbon footprint of a typical blog. Not a bad thing to do on Earth Day!
Family Anatomy is carbon neutral! Here are a couple of links to articles we’ve written about nature / the environment and mental health:
Ecopsychology and spending time outside
Nature Art and therapy
Note: Posts on Family Anatomy are for education only, and are not intended to replace professional or medical advice. If you need to talk to someone about family or mental health issues, you can get a referral from your family doctor.
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Hand in Hand 1 by Skadie
Being a parent is a mixed bag – on one hand, you feel immense joy and happiness at the birth of your child, but on the other, you know that as they grow older, your responsibilities increase and the challenges you face become greater. When they start school and start to make friends, they discover a world besides their home and the parents. And unless you know and accept that there are going to be many changes and challenges ahead and are prepared to deal with them, you’re going to find it difficult to stay connected to and bond with your kids. Although each child is different, in general, most parents face the challenges below:
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Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird bairdphotos.com
We heard this week from Dr. Talwar that lying is a normal part of child development, occurring as kids begin to understand others’ perspective. Young children aren’t the only ones who fib, though. Teenagers also lie, to avoid getting in trouble, to get out of obligations, or for any number of reasons. And it’s not as simple as just lying – partial truths, or avoiding touchy topics are also possible strategies for dealing with disagreements with parents.
A study published in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Adolescence examined the approaches taken by teens in situations likely to lead to disagreements with their parents.
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