Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 35 (173 total reports)
23.08.2023-29.08.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people and increasing their resilience in the face of narcissism and high anxiety.
Best Links of The Week
29.08.2023
Teens are crumbling under extreme pressure. Parents need to change.
https://apple.news/AFJf--q-VRtqFW59vaIcNbw
The anxiety of children is a reflection of the adults that surround them. What they hear and feel at home, in the car, and at mealtimes. We must remember that children and teens do not have effective filters for many of these reflections, they also learn how to respond from us. How we cope (or don’t) is how they cope (or don’t). If we want to change our children’s or teen’s behavior we have to do a continuous inventory of our own anxieties and responses.
28.08.2023
How to Increase Your "Neuroplasticity," in Seven Key Steps
https://www.insidehook.com/article/health-and-fitness/increase-neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity is the ability to be cognitively flexible and is essential to change or adjustment to the evolving circumstances surrounding us. It is almost a truism to say that change is a constant and that the rapidity of change in our world is increasing exponentially. The inability to be flexible in the midst of this change is a root cause of many mental and social disorders. When we don’t feel cognitively flexible, we feel constantly cognitively stressed with the inability to control the circumstances around us (although the problem is really inside us).
27.08.2023
Mastering the art of arguing productively
https://www.fastcompany.com/90943884/mastering-the-art-of-arguing-productively
All of us want to have productive conversations—especially when they are challenging ones. But to reach that ideal, we have to be able to identify what a productive outcome would be. This article identifies promoting understanding and clarity of thought as two primary goals of difficult conversations (arguments). I also like the article because it uses a reference to a Monty Python sketch (The Argument Clinic) as a reference point.
26.08.2023
Educating women is the fastest way to combat climate change
https://www.upworthy.com/educating-women-is-the-fastest-way-to-combat-climate-change
The primary point of this article is that women make 91% of the decisions in households, this includes the “electrification” of the energy source of a home.
25.08.2023
It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.
There is a belief that people attempt to hide history because they WANT to repeat it. This is an alarming thought, but it is a shoe that fits the foot in the case of the racist rhetoric of conservatives like Stephen Miller and Ron DeSantis. This article points out that many people who grew up in the US (and Canada) education systems of the last half a century may never have been exposed to the role of religion in the attempt at ethnocide and genocide of the Native American population.
24.08.2023
How to be a good listener - and how to know when you're doing it right
Hopefully, most people reading this blog can recognize the difference between being a good listener and being an advisor. If we could teach people that most of us want to be understood, not fixed, we would go a long way towards reducing the mental illnesses of our world today.
23.08.2023
The Eight Kinds of Humility That Can Help You Stay Grounded
I’ve always believed that we should be as ardent (if not more so) in teaching “school humility” as we are about promoting “school pride.” This article examines 8 types of humility that we can apply to our lives and share with those around us. There were many types of humility in this short review that I hadn’t even considered. I hope you will approach it, with humility, and take time to digest some of the information.
This Week’s Links
29.08.2023
Teens are crumbling under extreme pressure. Parents need to change.
https://apple.news/AFJf--q-VRtqFW59vaIcNbw
Echo Chambers Amplified: How CNN and Fox News Fuel America's Polarization - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/news-media-political-polarization-23849/
The Big Lesson Parents Of High-Achieving Kids Must Teach Again And Again
https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/big-lesson-parents-high-achieving-kids-must-teach
The Manipulative Narcissist
How To Stop Overthinking and Live Your Life
School Anxiety Is More and More Common — Here’s How to Help Your Kiddo Through It
https://www.popsugar.com/family/school-anxiety-49250065
Conservatives try to end county’s libraries after failing to ban 11 books
28.08.2023
How to Increase Your "Neuroplasticity," in Seven Key Steps
https://www.insidehook.com/article/health-and-fitness/increase-neuroplasticity
Many American Parents Have No Idea How Their Kids Are Doing in School
https://time.com/6308834/american-parents-how-their-kids-doing-in-school/
Baking Cakes and Building Brains. A Renowned Neuroscientist Explains the Shocking Truth of Emotional Intelligence
https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/a-neuroscientist-explains-truth-of-emotional-intelligence.html
9-year-old girl with autism has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
27.08.2023
Mastering the art of arguing productively
https://www.fastcompany.com/90943884/mastering-the-art-of-arguing-productively
Actually useful ways to help children with homework, bullying, and mental health.
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23844294/parents-help-kids-school-homework-bullying-mental-health
26.08.2023
Educating women is the fastest way to combat climate change
https://www.upworthy.com/educating-women-is-the-fastest-way-to-combat-climate-change
Why Schools Are Building Housing for Teachers
https://apple.news/AGqEj99kwQey8fycXA-HguQ
A neuroscientist explains how religious fundamentalism hijacks the brain
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/fundamentalism-mental-health/
Psychologist: 2 styles of parenting that lead kids to become narcissistic adults
https://apple.news/APf0DKM5_SGeK_J1oXpW3VQ
Texas ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans kids will go into effect despite legal fight
https://apple.news/AZTb1MUunRzK9DIFAeelObA
25.08.2023
It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.
6 Game-Changing Mindset Shifts I Wish I'd Known About Sooner
https://www.entrepreneur.com/living/6-mindset-strategies-i-wish-id-known-earlier-in-my-career/457691
24.08.2023
How to be a good listener - and how to know when you're doing it right
Why a stranger's hello can do more than just brighten your day
Become a Positive Thought Warrior: 3 Mindset Shifts to Go From Suffering to Self-Compassion
Generational Researcher Jean Twenge on How Smartphones Destroyed Gen Z—and What Parents Can Do About It
https://time.com/6307832/jean-twenge-interview-person-of-the-week/
8 classes that should be required for all students before they hit adulthood
https://www.upworthy.com/8-classes-that-should-be-required-for-all-students-but-arent-rp4
A Neuroscientist Explains Why These 5 Phrases Are Holding You Back and What to Say Instead
Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?
23.08.2023
The Eight Kinds of Humility That Can Help You Stay Grounded
The Science Behind Narcissism
https://apple.news/AgttZhhJ8T_yWykc-WIyOGg
More than 100 chaplains urge Texans not to hire school chaplains
Mindfulness in the Classroom: Strengthen Students' Focus in 3 Minutes a Day (Opinion)
How Creativity Training Helps Kids Tackle Life’s Hurdles and Boosts Resilience
https://neurosciencenews.com/creativity-resilience-neurodevelopment-23805/
This Year, Schools Are Teaching ChatGPT Instead of Banning It
https://tech.co/news/schools-teaching-chatgpt-banning
3 Ways to Build Unbeatable Rapport With People That Transforms into Trust
Where the Republican Candidates Stand on Climate Change
https://heatmap.news/politics/republican-2024-candidates-climate-change-2024
You Will Get Rejected — How You Handle It Will Make You Successful. Here Are 3 Ways to Turn It Into Power
https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/3-ways-to-overcome-rejection-and-turn-it-into-power/456935