Adults who attended school in the sixties and seventies may remember classes of forty or more students sitting quietly and upright in wrap-around school desks. Behaviors such as speaking out, not paying attention, talking back, hitting others, or throwing pencils were not tolerated. Children who violated the rules were often subjected to verbal assaults, hit […]
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Collaborative Problem Solving Important Information for Parents
In the last two decades, traditional wisdom about what was best for children and what was considered normal and natural behavior, gradually disappeared and became unfashionable. While caregivers were once encouraged to look for the causes of children’s social and emotional problems, to be firm and enforce appropriate behaviors, today they are told that behaviors, […]
Epidemic or Dangerous Trend? What Parents Need to Know about Mental Health Treatments
“My studies of child abuse and neglect led me to conclude that the abuse inflicted upon children by society exceeded in scope their abuse and neglect by parents.” David Gil In 2009, after working for twenty years as a social work consultant in the special education department of a large metropolitan school board in Canada, […]
Girl Guides of Canada’s Mighty Minds Program: Based on Biased Sources
Girl Guides of Canada, a hundred-year-old organization, that strives to make a positive difference in the lives of all girls, from ages 5 to 17, recently adopted a so-called “mental health” program, called Mighty Minds, to teach girl guides how to develop mental health skills and address the stigma that exists around mental health and […]
Big Pharma Is in Your Child’s Classroom – How Marketers Have Hooked Teachers into Peddling “Mental Health” Drugs
School teachers these days have more on their minds than teaching the 3 R’s. Over the last decade, the pharmaceutical industry and their alliances have gradually enlisted the services of schools to market the belief that problems, such as anxiety, inattention, disruptive behavior and depression, not class inequity, impairs the ability of students to do […]