Youth Mental Health
Youth Mental Health
Year 3, Week 52 (154 total reports)
19.04.2023-25.04.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Book Bannings, Shootings, Fear-Mongering contrasted with Happiness, Creativity and Wonder. What a week!
This Week’s Top Links
25.04.2023
Perspective | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet pens a letter to a local school board
https://apple.news/AhWDIff_fTqeVV1-N0dKx_g
If I were to pen the perfect letter or create an amazing model for writing school boards across the US about book-banning, this would be the letter. There were 1,269 challenges to ban books in 2022 and last week, one superintendent just suggested closing school libraries in his district. Is it the desire of the GOP and Christian Evangelicals to raise an illiterate generation that will be dumbfounded by conversations wherever they travel? If so, they are laying the groundwork for institutional ignorance in most red-leaning States.
24.03.2023
A Crucial Character Trait for Happiness
https://apple.news/AaWaHT98QTwOT2VD6p_bVDQ
Arthur C. Brooks of The Atlantic is consistently one of my favorites writers. This historic look at happiness examines the philosophical roots of this state of being. It is always enriching to receive knowledge from the likes of Plato, Aristotles, Hippocrates and more-modern thinkers like William James. Brooks compares their philosophies to the exuberance of his neighbor. And I have to say, I would like to grow some of the attributes of Brooks’ neighbor in my life.
23.04.2023
The secret power of boredom
https://apple.news/AAGIlmaceTEupRz8kmypejw
The benefits of boredom might soon be lost to a culture that equates busy with importance (“the busier I am the more important I must be”). Boredom Psychologist, Heather Lench, Ph.D., has studied the benefits of boredom. Primarily, the space and time that boredom requires which free the brain to be more creative. Think of this next time you feel you have to fill every waking moment with tasks or social media. And consider the important aspects of boredom in raising or educating children. Can we model the constructive use of boredom to the young people around us?
22.04.2023
Is it 'woke' to teach kindness? With teachers' hands tied, racism flourishes in classroom.
Many of my friends still in education are asking this similar question. When empathy and courtesy are attacked as weaknesses, what replaces them in our schools? When we examine the journalists and politicians leading the “Woke” attack, we see some of the most ignorant, biased, racist bullies in the US today. This is certainly not the behavior we want to model or allow to grow in our schools. Politicians who push this agenda should spend a semester teaching and be measured by the same standards used on our educators today. How well does anyone learn in a hostile—even violent—environment?
21.04.2023
Why kids lose their sense of wonder, according to Carl Sagan
https://bigthink.com/thinking/why-kids-lose-wonder-carl-sagan/
Carl Sagan, the leading force behind the series, Cosmos, raised a whole generation to wonder and be astonished by physics and astronomy. Sir Ken Robinson and others who are at the forefront in the field of education remind us that wonder is the greatest asset any person can carry into life. Einstein is quoted as saying, “Creativity is more important than knowledge.” But why do we force our schools to measure knowledge rather than creativity? We will be successful in education when children leave our schools saying, “Wow! I wonder how much I still don’t know…”
20.04.2023
Why are Americans being shot for knocking on the wrong door?
https://apple.news/ACLDS2MK2RIu-5NAz3FYoCQ
When politicians or religious leaders don’t have a subsatnce-based platform to share, they resort to peddling fear. Fear of those who are different from us. A different color, sexuality, birthplace. A fear of the afterlife, fear of judgment, a fear of expulsion. The list goes on. The US has reached a fever pitch of fear and sadly, guns are the match that ignites those irrational fears into deadly behaviors.
19.04.2023
Analysis | America’s toxic mix of guns, concern over crime — and fear-mongering
https://apple.news/AdIvVXQ9ZTTCgN8MriE2gUQ
The US has become the least safe country to visit that is not in an active war zone. It is no longer safe to be a child in the US—where the most likely cause of death is a gunshot wound. This is not just the fault of gun owners, it is a combination of selling fears and turning people against each other that is deliberately orchestrated by a small group of people who benefit from those fears. We must begin to publicly ask (as did the three politicians in Tennessee), “Who profits from fear? Who profits from gun violence? Who profits from an America divided against itself?” Names and Acronyms keep coming to the top of the list: NRA, GOP, MAGA. Murdock, Trump, Carlson, Cruz.
This Week’s Links
25.04.2023
Perspective | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet pens a letter to a local school board
https://apple.news/AhWDIff_fTqeVV1-N0dKx_g
As The War On Books Rages, A Virginia School Official Proposes Closing Down Libraries
https://apple.news/ABf1N_FtETMSY6k5Wk84XGQ
There were 1,269 efforts to ban books in 2022. These titles were the most targeted.
https://apple.news/Aqk5IkIYYQ12HOD1QcDIoKg
After Mike fell on a busy sidewalk, a stranger helped in just the right way
https://apple.news/ALCG3XMfsSVWLqKXjqjVj-Q
Signs You Have a Toxic Parent and How to Cope
https://apple.news/AWoO5UZkGTviQzty9-0ZHpQ
California lawmakers consider banning 'willful defiance' suspensions from schools
https://apple.news/A2-7NRJqlS0uXA6Y9oFw9og
24.03.2023
A Crucial Character Trait for Happiness
https://apple.news/AaWaHT98QTwOT2VD6p_bVDQ
When Congress is more Christian and religious than the rest of America
https://apple.news/AEb7D8IzGRrGL0MMEfai7aQ
People Are Sharing Professions That Are Getting Phased Out, And It's Pretty Eye-Opening
https://apple.news/A2g974icDTeS7gGuqjPQEzQ
Your body's intense reaction to stress, explained
https://apple.news/A3WoSc09jRDCl6NpYD_K-jg
More and More Parents Are "Rusting Out" Without Realizing It — Are You?
https://apple.news/AThoG6D8dSyqMFirnDiwe1g
23.04.2023
The secret power of boredom
https://apple.news/AAGIlmaceTEupRz8kmypejw
6 Questions You Should Ask When Your Kid Gets In Trouble At School
https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/questions-ask-when-kid-gets-in-trouble-school
Book bans are on the rise in U.S. schools, fueled by new laws in Republican-led states
https://apple.news/AcjjH08PbTGyfwFO4cUZaQw
Mental Block: The Brain Often Stop Us From Learning From Mistakes - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-mistake-learning-23081/
22.04.2023
Is it 'woke' to teach kindness? With teachers' hands tied, racism flourishes in classroom.
Failure Is Key to Learning. Help Students See It That Way
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/failure-is-key-to-learning-help-students-see-it-that-way/2023/04
21.04.2023
Why kids lose their sense of wonder, according to Carl Sagan
https://bigthink.com/thinking/why-kids-lose-wonder-carl-sagan/
6 Questions You Should Ask When Your Kid Gets In Trouble At School
https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/questions-ask-when-kid-gets-in-trouble-school
Bill Gates: AI will be ‘as good a tutor as any human,’ but payoffs in education will take time
Quick Ways Teachers Can Encourage Students to Listen to Each Other
A 6-Step Method For Not Losing Your Cool During An Argument
https://www.fatherly.com/life/how-to-not-lose-your-cool-during-an-argument
20.04.2023
Why are Americans being shot for knocking on the wrong door?
https://apple.news/ACLDS2MK2RIu-5NAz3FYoCQ
Steve Jobs Said 1 Choice in Life Separates the Doers From the Dreamers
Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/life-worth-living-guide-matters-bookbite/41739/
Shot for making a mistake: America reels from shootings of Ralph Yarl, Kaylin Gillis and Texas cheerleaders
19.04.2023
Analysis | America’s toxic mix of guns, concern over crime — and fear-mongering
https://apple.news/AdIvVXQ9ZTTCgN8MriE2gUQ
I spent 10 years studying what makes us happy in life—here's the No. 1 thing I overlooked the entire time
https://apple.news/AnAk6FaPiSsuI1l8H64boVw
How does social media affect mental health? It's complicated.
https://apple.news/A4_d66E8rSaqK_nZPP2Jkxw
Can AI improve education? Here are 4 potential use cases
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/can-ai-improve-education-here-are-4-potential-use-cases/
FDA authorizes second dose of updated COVID booster for some people
https://apple.news/AKQ8e67__SjSooncptGtxmw
Arnold Schwarzenegger follows a 5-word mantra to achieve super human focus and concentration.
https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/arnold-schwarzeneggers-5-word-mantra-for-super-human-focus.html
When kids like the box more than the toy: The benefits of playing with everyday objects
We know how kids learn to read, so why are we failing to teach them?