Friday 11 February 2011 - Bullying and Social Status ~ NSW Teacher Standards ~ Increase in Bullying Girls in Australia ~ Working Parents' Guilt ~ Effectiveness of Time Out for Children ~ New Assessment Methods for Students ~ Children's Sleepovers ~ Children's Diet and IQ Read full article
Monday 17 January 2011 - Links to Latest Parenting and Education news: Child Beauty Pageants ~ Gender Selection ~ Parenting Adult Children ~ Australian Literacy Project ~ New Zealand Parenting Program ~ 14 Year Old in Refugee Camp ~ Special Schools for Children with Autism ~ Vaccination and Autism ~ Poverty Among African American Children Read full article
Friday 14 January 2011 - Links to Latest Parenting and Education news: Brain's Social Amygdala ~ New Genetic Test ~ Students' Exam Anxiety Relief ~ Benefits of Solids Before 6 Months ~ Laughter Helps IVF Read full article
Thursday 13 January 2011 - Links to Latest Parenting and Education news: Twins in Womb ~ Teaching Arts at School ~ Restore Untidy Play ~ Education Policy ~ No Child Left Behind ~ Men as Child Predators ~ Facebook Help for Missing Children ~ My Schools Website Read full article
Monday 10 January 2011 - Links to Latest Parenting and Education news:
Environmental Education ~ Teachers Allowed to Touch Children ~ School & University Entrance Stress ~ Shanghai Schools ~ Danger to Child on Shoulders ~ Short Term Teacher Contracts ~ Sexualisation of Children ~ Facebook Breastfeeding Page Read full article
On 1 November 2010 near Drummoyne, Sydney, over 100 people have so far registered to attend the Oprah Show meetup on a topic of great importance - the education system. I will be talking there about the need for emotional intelligence education to be included in the Australian National Curriculum, and sharing the fascinating research into why this is so important. There are only a few tickets left. Full details are in the blogpost. Read full article
![<a href="/blogs/yvettevignando/2010/09/29/is-there-a-dangerous-rise-in-therapeutic-education-for-children">Is there a "Dangerous" Rise in Therapeutic Education for Children?</a>](http://www.happychild.com.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_tall/images/photo primary school girl daydreams.jpg "<a href=\"/blogs/yvettevignando/2010/09/29/is-there-a-dangerous-rise-in-therapeutic-education-for-children\">Is there a "Dangerous" Rise in Therapeutic Education for Children?</a>")
A book published by two Oxford Brookes University academics suggested that a rise in “therapeutic education” in schools could be a bad development. The book is called The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education. Apparently the book criticises school lessons that contain “social and emotional” content on the basis that these lessons may turn children into introverted, self-obsessed people who can not take criticism. Read full article
Last year I was drawn to a series of articles referring to research from the Universities of Virginia (United States) and Plymouth (United Kingdom) suggesting that for children, happiness may not always mean good academic results. If you have read Martin Seligman’s work on optimism and its value for children’s wellbeing and later success in life, this suggestion could leave you scratching your head and wondering. Read full article
In the New South Wales public school system, parents are asked to select an SRE (Special Religious Education) class for their child to attend for up to one hour each week. Each class focuses on one religion. Parents and children who are not religious or whose faith is not represented by the classes offered at their school can opt out of the classes. My view is that this presents a problem ... Read full article
Part 3 of an interview with Dr Karen Hansen from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia about adolescence being a critical time to teach emotional intelligence skills. Dr Hansen also describes the connection between emotional intelligence and academic success in particular subjects at high school. Read full article
