How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character. By Paul Tough. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 256 pages; $27. Random House; £12.99. Buy from...
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This is examining the issues the early therapeutic (emotional growth) boarding schools were based on in the 1980s, many of which are still operating. -Lon
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In a recent interview with ABC News, the legendary comic, actor, writer and educator mused on the parenting philosophy behind his seminal television program, “The Cosby Show.”
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The eyes of people with neurological conditions, including ADHD and Parkinson’s, have a distinctive motion that could form the basis of clinical diagnosis
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"....The next time somebody tells you what a brain scan says, be a little skeptical. The brain is not the mind...."Advances in neuroscience promise many things, but they will never explain everything."
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A good word of caution: that new studies and insights are unlikely to explain everything. And despite some of the comments after this article, the idea that the mind IS the brain is at best still very controversial. -Lon
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June 18, 7:55 AM
The consequences of over selling preliminary research data is that proven practice gets over looked. Brook's assertion that the brain is not the mind is important. Let's all shake some salt over images of brain scans--and not allow colleagues to promote them to brain-scams.--Lou
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"..What Satel and Lilienfeld call “neurocentrism” is an effort to take the indeterminacy of life and reduce it to measurable, scientific categories.
Right now we are compelled to rely on different disciplines to try to understand behavior on multiple levels, with inherent tensions between them. Some people want to reduce that ambiguity by making one discipline all-explaining. They want to eliminate the confusing ambiguity of human freedom by reducing everything to material determinism.
But that is the form of intellectual utopianism that always leads to error. An important task these days is to harvest the exciting gains made by science and data while understanding the limits of science and data. .."
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June 18, 8:04 AM
Three cheers for David Brooks! We want to divide, map and conquer the brain. And then there is the mind--a whole different element altogether. I'm tired of the brain-scans, too, Lou. Misinformation is being applied in too many classrooms, and in society. Thanks for posting! The brain is fluid, extremely complex and, as Brooks points out, does not speak for the mind.
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Three cheers for David Brooks (again). An important article for teachers, administrators, and society in general!
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Sibling bullying is linked to worse mental health for kid and teen victims.
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Important new study suggests many motivations believed to play important roles in suicide are actually relatively uncommon.
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This study with results that are intuitively consistent should help a better focus on thte problem. -Lon
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Contrary to popular belief, genuine suicide attempts shouldn't be seen as a call for help or a manipulative act. Rather, the researchers found that "Of all motivations for suicide, the two found to be universal in all participants were hopelessness and overwhelming emotional pain."
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Some doctors balk at the idea of trying to change a patient's personality, but a new study suggests that they're doing it already
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Reading aloud to older children -- even up to age 14, who can comfortably read to themselves -- has benefits both academic and emotional, according to researchers.
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I have always enjoyed reading to, and with, my children and grandchildren, as bonding times, but this article points out some additional valid benefits. -Lon
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Feeling stressed or having a hard time dealing with your emotions? Art Therapy might be the answer. Discover what creativity could do for you.
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Peggy Drexler says although men have historically been heavier drinkers than women, evidence suggests that the gender gap is shrinking, and fast.
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In the southern Utah wilderness six teenagers, two staff members and a camera crew are trekking across the frozen plateau. The teens are part of a hand-selected group from Great Britain. They are experiencing first-hand the rigors of wilderness therapy as practiced by the Utah based program, RedCliff Ascent.
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Experts propose restoring invisible and abandoned drug trials “to correct the scientific record” -
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() Ido Kedar is a 17-year-old young man with autism, and a champion and advocate for individuals of all ages with severe autism. Ido is nonverbal, and for the first seven years of his life, was unable to communicate with the people around him.
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A new parenting trend shows many men are becoming fathers later in life.
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Crack is a drug that has serious short term effects, and it can really make your life spiral quickly. The long term effects of crack are just as alarming.
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First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others.Confidence is quiet: It’s
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I've know a lot of kids who could benefit from this. :) -Lon
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The airbrush backlash is now well underway as Debenhams announces a ban on all retouched lingerie model shots. The store 'wants to help customers feel confident about their figures'.
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“No TV until you finish that level.” Can you imagine? Recent research shows that video games, once considered public school enemy number one, might just be one of our greatest assets in delivering an effective...
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Kids love spending time with their mother and father more than their best friend on social networking sites like Facebook or Instagram, an Australian study has revealed.
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Technology may make it easier to communicate electronically, but more difficult to do so emotionally.
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Fluctuations of serotonin levels in the brain, which often occur when someone hasn’t eaten or is stressed, affects brain regions that enable people to regulate anger, new research from the University of Cambridge has shown.
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Marijuana is perceived as one of the least harmful trugs. However, there are long term effects of marijuana use. Here is what you can expect.
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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/03/2013 03:43 PM EDT on LiveScience The National Institute of Mental Health is moving away from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, sometimes known as the...
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With the controversy over the new DSM-5, and other moving away from this "bible" of diagnostics, and this shift, it looks like we are going through a sea change of how we look at mental health problems. -Lon
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If you are looking for a game plan for your home, the best place to start is creating a balance of consequences and privileges for your household rules.
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Paul Tough, a journalist and former editor at the New York Times Magazine, aims to answer these thorny questions in “How Children Succeed”, an ambitious and elegantly written new book, now out in Britain. The problem, he writes, is that academic success is believed to be a product of cognitive skills—the kind of intelligence that gets measured in IQ tests. This view has spawned a vibrant market for brain-building baby toys, and an education-reform movement that sweats over test scores. But new research from a spate of economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and educators has found that the skills that see a student through college and beyond have less to do with smarts than with more ordinary personality traits, like an ability to stay focused and control impulses. The KIPP students who graduated from college were not the academic stars but the workhorses, the ones who plugged away at problems and resolved to do better.
So non-cognitive skills like persistence and curiosity are highly predictive of future success. But where do these traits come from? And how can they be developed? In search of answers, Mr Tough first looks at the problem on a neurological level. Apparently medical reasons explain why children who grow up in abusive or dysfunctional environments generally find it harder to concentrate, sit still and rebound from disappointments. The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical for regulating thoughts and mediating behaviour. When this region is damaged—a common condition for children living amid the pressures of poverty—it is tougher to suppress unproductive instincts.