Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 28 (166 total reports)
11.05.2023-11.07.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
The goal of education is wonder, the importance of supporting unpaid caregivers, and the critical role of reading to our children are all a part of this week’s review.
This Week’s Top Links
11.07.2023
How Trauma Can Affect Your Window of Tolerance
https://www.verywellmind.com/window-of-tolerance-7553021
Trauma is something I have read about and studied for years, even decades now, in my work with adults and children. Still, there is always something new and interesting when I dig in deeper. I appreciated this article for it’s special emphasis on the hyperarousal and hypoarousal windows of tolerance linked to trauma. If you know of someone who has unresolved childhood adversity resulting in a reduced window of tolerance, this is a good article to review.
10.07.2023
Emotionally Intelligent People Use a Brilliant 4-Word Phrase to Be Present, Remember More, and Learn From Every Moment
https://apple.news/Ab0jiHhKLRVS-46PR7XNNJQ
I usually gloss over articles that have titles like, “Brilliant 4-Word Phrase,” but I read through this article and did, indeed, find the phrase brilliant. It would make for a good mantra, if you don’t already have one and is linked to the Japanese mindfulness concept of Ichigo Ichie.
09.07.2023
One in five US employees serves as an unpaid caregiver
https://apple.news/AXBNts9kGTkC6qeGl1Ltc0w
This is yet another signal of the importance of considering a Basic Living Wage. In areas where this program has been applied it has been shown to improve wellness in the population and enhance the economy. Conservatives would like us to believe that a program like this would feed a laziness among people and reward them for not working. But the truth is it just makes sense and even more sense given the immigration policies pushed by the right. The only ones who do NOT want a program like this are the richest of the rich who fear having to pay their fair share of taxes and even lose their privileged status as non-payers. Their fear is also based on losing a population-base that wouldn’t be slave-laborers working for non-living wages for their corporations. Research does not support the conservative bias against these programs and whoever thinks that unpaid caregivers don’t work hard has never had to do the actual work.
08.07.2023
Poverty is linked to poorer brain development – but reading can help counteract it
No doubt the strongest tool in our toolbox for preparing young people for a healthy adulthood is assisting caregivers to lavish children with reading time. Rather than banning reading times in libraries we should be increasing funds to make them happen. Who benefits from less reading time for our children?
07.07.2023
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/06/hermann-hesse-wonder-butterflies/
I’m an avid fan or Hermann Hesse and have devoured his writings since my teenage years. I was homeless from 16 to 25 and lived primarily in bus stations as I traveled across the US. Reading Siddhartha was as inspiring to me as reading JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. I even visited his childhood home in Calw, Germany. Hesse is the grandfather of Servant Leadership and the depths of his writings could be a lifelong endeavor for some.
06.07.2023
Recovery high school provides ‘accountability, safe space’ amid rising drug use
https://apple.news/A25TSyUpGRYWssHt2kiy7JA
Recovery High Schools offer the most comprehensive approach to educating young people today. I spent the thirty years of my career working in and consulting with such schools and some of my best life-experiences occurred within them. I found the teachers and administrators to be extra mindful of the needs of the young people, dedicated to both their education, but also their well-being. With the education system in recovery globally (post-COVID) and often lost for direction, I could heartily recommend the standards of recovery high schools sit at the heart of creating a newly imagined education model.
05.07.2023
Frederick Douglass’ ‘July Fourth’ Speech Continues To Reveal America’s Hypocrisy Following Supreme Court’s Discriminatory Rulings
The utter crassness and blatant racism of this bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court has set the United States back a hundred plus years. It is no longer a judicial branch of the government as designed by the framers of the Constitution. It is a Conservative-Christian, Republican policy-setting tool of the wealthy. Its rulings in women’s rights, higher learning, LGBTQ rights and sheltering hate speech have given both a black eye and a crippled leg to the US globally. Many of the justices should have decals like Formula One Race Cars marking who have bought them and paid for their decisions.
This Week’s Links
11.07.2023
How Trauma Can Affect Your Window of Tolerance
https://www.verywellmind.com/window-of-tolerance-7553021
Four steps to free yourself from resentment
https://apple.news/A9fKlLLUYR7WISdJu-oE12Q
Dopamine, serotonin and more: The chemicals that make us feel happy and how they work
https://apple.news/AMsA-yi_-QlGARerHSNMl6g
Teachers Aren’t the Solution to America’s Literacy Crisis—Parents Are
The Mental Health Benefits of Forgiveness
Children of highly religious mothers are more likely to internalize their problems, study finds
10.07.2023
Emotionally Intelligent People Use a Brilliant 4-Word Phrase to Be Present, Remember More, and Learn From Every Moment
https://apple.news/Ab0jiHhKLRVS-46PR7XNNJQ
How 'Arthur' masterfully taught kids about PTSD and 9/11
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/10/how-arthur-masterfully-taught-kids-about-ptsd-and-9-11.html
Instead of banning AI, schools should use it to enhance learning
09.07.2023
One in five US employees serves as an unpaid caregiver
https://apple.news/AXBNts9kGTkC6qeGl1Ltc0w
Why We Achieve
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-in-high-achievers/202307/why-we-achieve
‘Democracy is at risk’: inside the fight for supreme court reform
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/09/supreme-court-reform-conservative-justices
‘We should all be viewing this as a five-alarm fire’: Threat of disinformation escalates ahead of 2024
This is the one skill you need to improve right now, no matter what job you’re in
08.07.2023
Poverty is linked to poorer brain development – but reading can help counteract it
The Neuroscience of Nurturing
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-gift-of-adhd/202307/the-neuroscience-of-nurturing
07.07.2023
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/07/06/hermann-hesse-wonder-butterflies/
The gravitational pull of supervising kids all the time
https://apple.news/Ai38nEAGmTcepJdnipCsycA
06.07.2023
Recovery high school provides ‘accountability, safe space’ amid rising drug use
https://apple.news/A25TSyUpGRYWssHt2kiy7JA
Teachers, Try This: Use Restorative Justice to Solve Student Conflicts
Why Letting Your Kids Be Bored is Actually a Gift
https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/2799715/boredom-good-for-kids/
Emotionally Intelligent People Use These 4 Words When They Meet People They Don't Remember Meeting (But Who Remember Meeting Them)
05.07.2023
Frederick Douglass’ ‘July Fourth’ Speech Continues To Reveal America’s Hypocrisy Following Supreme Court’s Discriminatory Rulings
Reimagining student engagement as a continuum of learning behaviors
The Art of Wabi-Sabi: How to Embrace Imperfection
https://thetaoist.online/the-art-of-wabi-sabi-how-to-embrace-imperfection-9c3a530ab100
This Year I'm Just Not In the Mood for Life, Liberty, and All That
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44430715/independence-day-not-in-the-mood/
Dante’s “Divine Comedy” isn’t only about religion. It’s a political statement.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/dante-divine-comedy-italy/
Disinformation Researchers Lament 'Chilling' US Legal Campaign
https://www.barrons.com/news/disinformation-researchers-lament-chilling-us-legal-campaign-675c946