Owner: Unhappy kids in the UK URL:http://unhappykidsinuk.blogspot.com Join Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:31:42 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: The debate is endless. What is making kid unhappy in the UK? what are the root problems of this? Is it to do with not having a loving family, a poor education, society’s attitude towards the youth of today? And how do we take urgent action to solve it? Site statistics:Click here
Teaching our children to be unhappy 2007-03-14 16:32:00 A chapter in the book “Be your own therapist” explores this idea of why parents are immediately labelled bad parents if their children do not get what they want. The author’s idea is that children use manipulative behaviour to get their own way and parents shouldn’t fall for it. The author believes that life is full of people not getting what they want and that children need to learn this even if that means they will be unhappy
.“Giving in to the manipulative tantrum, on the other hand, sets them up for future unhappiness and tendencies toward violence.”To some extent I would say this is true. However, many would argue that this sets them up to not having the right attitude to succeed in life. If a child fails to achieve something first time around they shouldn’t feel sad or forced to feel unhappy but should try again with a new frame of mind.
Education Guardian Supplement
Tuesday 27.02.07
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27.02.07“All in the mind” by Kathryn Ecclestone"Emotional literacy has become a big business"Emotional Literacy may seem like a new term to many of you but the phrase is starting to grow and become well known especially within schools, to help children stop feeling depressed and lonely. I describe emotional literacy as:The ability to convey feelings with detailed emotive words. For example, "I feel like no one can understand me." Ecclestone starts of by saying “Recent Figures suggest that one in six adults will suffer from depression in their lifetime, and one in 10 11 to 15 year-olds has significant emotional and behavioural difficulties.” Ecclestone says that over 240,000 counsellors, mentors, therapists and life coaches are working in schools, hospitals, universities and private practices. Some act as advisors to employ plans for “wellbeing” and “emotional literacy.”The idea of implementing emotional literacy is to help children Read more:Education
Extract taken from the The London Paper (Monday 26... 2007-02-26 21:24:00 Extract taken from the The London Paper (Monday
26th February 2007)Five year oldsget depressionChildren as young as five aresuffering from depression,according to new figuresrevealed by the charityChildLine. Of the 1,265 calls about suicide to the helplinelast year nearly four out of five were from girls.And of the 300 callers agedfive to 11, 42 wanted to speakto a counsellor about theirsuicidal feelings.More than 6,000 children called the charity in 2006.
UNICEF reveals UK children are miserable. 2007-02-20 16:03:00 Newsnight’s programme aired on Tuesday 13th February 2007 on BBC2 examined the claim that children living in the UK are unloved and generally unhappy. UNICEF
unveils this damning report after major a study went underway into how happy young people are in the rich countries of the world.The debate is endless what are the root problems of this? Is it to do with not having a loving family, a poor education, society’s attitude towards the youth of today? And how do we take urgent action to solve it?
Extract from Budget 2007 2007-03-26 11:05:00 Child benefit Pledge to lift 200,000 young people from poverty with increases in child benefit, which will rise from £17.45 to £20 a week for the first child by 2010
"Securing Our Children's Future" 2007-03-30 17:02:00 Read more on the plans to Secure The Future
of our Children
The speech explores factors children face eg. Education, Skills for Jobs, Famillies, and how the government wish to improve help for them in 2007.
Todays' Children Are Our Tomorrow 2007-03-30 16:59:00 "Help for the poorest child, which in 1997 was £28 a week and is today 61 pounds, I will now rise in three successive stages by more than 25 per cent to £75 a week, almost three times the 1997 level, not £1,400 per year as it was in 1997 but £3,900 per child per year."Read more in Gordon Brown's Budget Speech 2007 Read more:Children
Shelter 2007-04-04 15:14:00 The charity Shelter
claims that 1 in 7 children in the UK are living in bad housing. The charity is dedicated to help these children escape. Shelter says it "helps 170,000 people a year fight for Housing Rights."Click here for more information.
NSPCC needs support 2007-04-04 14:51:00 The article "Turning a Blind Eye" explores a survey carried out by the NSPCC and the revelation that South Asian Children are most likely to be victims of child abuse, the article really only mentions South Asian children as it was written for Drdesi, a site designed for young Asians. But take into consideration the other children from other various ethnic backgrounds that suffer also.Stop Child Abuse, Full Stop.
Does childhood still exist? 2007-04-24 12:56:00 Young adults are now forced to make life changing desicion from an early age, this would include picking subjects for GCSEs. Is unnecessary pressure being put on young adults? Are they forced to become responsable and 'grow up' quicker then before?Read the following article taken from MSNuk. Read more:exist
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