In some ways training a puppy is easier than training an adult or adolescent dog. One reason is that the puppy is essentially a blank slate, untroubled by past training techniques and other issues. In other ways, however, the puppy can be more difficult to train than an older dog...
Posts published in “When the Mind Needs Attention”
This section focuses on moments when the mind is struggling and needs care.
Here we explore experiences like anxiety, depression, burnout, emotional distress, and mental overload from a human perspective — not to label people, but to help them understand what they’re going through and why attention and support matter.
We are sending our children into a future filled with stress and conflict. Parents and teachers have the responsibility to model behaviors and teach skills that will enable our children to be productive, accepting, healthy, and above all, resilient.
1. Self-understanding and acceptance
Self-esteem is a realistic estimate of your own capabilities and worth. People with high self-esteem are productive, responsive, imaginative, and attentive to the needs of others. Encou...
This article is about a common health complaint among many
Americans, but also one of the hardest terms to define and a
symptom of many different conditions. This article will also give
out information on the many causes and symptoms of fatigue.
Stress is a huge problem especially for people in western societies. There are three types of stressors:
- Physical
- Psychological
- Environmental or Social.
The first group of stressors affect physically, for example : hunger ,hot and cold, illness, pain and injury, viruses, lack of sleep.
The Psychological affects your mind. Examples are : loneliness, fear, death of a relative or friend, threats to security, rejection, depression.
The Social occurs on your e...
Stress is everywhere, we know its unhealthy, and we know the conditions it can lead to. Many of us feel we really should do something about it, but the trouble with stress is when were in its grip its difficult to do much about anything.
Meditation, relaxation and visualisation are the standard recommendations for reducing stress, and they are all beneficial and useful to us in many ways, however, they are not so easy to put into use when stress strikes with its disru...
Every parent gets stressed. Its a part of life. How we deal with our stress will help shape the emotional health of our children. This article shows simple keys on how to deal with stress appropriately.
Stress has always been a part of our lives. It is but a common occurrence for people to hear someone complain of how stressful his life had been in the school, in the workplace, or even with his family. This situation happens everywhere regardless of race, nationality, status in life, or level of education attained. Stress is just there clinging to us wherever we go, and we cant merely disregard this sad truth.
We must remember that in whatever we do, there are just some ...
We all know the adage, A mothers work is never done. In fact, this could become a modern-day mothers theme song since we all have overbooked schedules and everybody wants something done yesterday.
We teach our children from a young age that it is impolite to say the word, No, which was a lesson we learned in childhood, too. Now as adults, it is increasingly difficult to say, No, to anyone for fear of being rude or being seen as unreliable.
Mothers need to learn ...