The Trouble with Psychiatry – Daniel Carlat
Daniel Carlat on The Trouble With Psychiatry
Daily Archives: October 14, 2015
Language and Learning – Panel Discussion
We speak with research psychologists and a language teacher about how kids acquire second, third or fourth languages and how it helps.
UNRWA GOES TO WAR
This film describes the Hamas take over of UNRWA Schools:
ISRAEL BEFORE 1967 – film
Israel Before 1967:
Rockets Found at UNRWA School-video
A frightening video of the fire power coming from Gaza. This is real:
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: Islamic State ‘mentality’ has reached Palestinians
The Times of Israel 16:56 Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely tells the BBC that the use of Palestinian children to attack Israeli children shows that the mindset of the Islamic State has infiltrated into the Palestinian consciousness. “With these brutal knifings of Israeli children by Palestinian children we are seeing the IS mentality entering the Palestinian arena,” she says. Hotovely disputes arguments that the recent violence was down […]
Discover Your Child’s Personal Learning Style
About fifteen years ago, Harvard researcher Howard Gardner wrote a book called Frames of Mind that challenged the common belief that people are born with a fixed intelligence that can only be discovered through IQ tests. Instead, Gardner said, there are at least seven distinct ways of being smart, and one can discover these ways by examining how people solve real problems and create meaningful products. These intelligences […]
Promote a Strong Physical Education Program in Your School
A recent study suggests that kids with hyperactive or aggressive traits may improve their behaviors if they engage in regular vigorous physical education. Hugh Stevenson, track and cross country coach at U.S. International University in San Diego, reported on efforts to improve physical education programs for children: ” We’re already seeing effects, especially on hyperactive, aggressive kids…Students who ran and participated in jumping or field excercises, for forthy […]
THE MYTH OF A.D.D.
Millions of parents and teachers have been enchanted into believing in the existence of a discrete psychiatric illness called “attention deficit disorder” that supposedly afflicts millions of American children…[In fact] these children are not disordered and A.D.D. does not exist. They may have a different style of thinking, attending, and behaving, but it’s the broader social and educational influences that create the disorder, not the children. These children […]
A.D.D. as a Response to Boring Classrooms
The collision between short-attention-span kids and life-in-the-slow-lane adults is particularly evident in our schools. Here, students must often sit at desks for hours at a time, listening to monotone lectures, and going over textbook and worksheet material that is presented – not like MTV – but like MTB (Material That’s Boring). Kids who are labeled A.D.D. have a particularly rough time in such environments. Studies suggest that “A.D.D. […]