REVIEW: 14- Relationship lessons from age 5

14- Relationship lessons from age 5
NEWSPAPER: BBC EDUCATION
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:17 UK
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7684810.stm

Abortion is considered one of the most dramatic issues that worry the actual society on which young girls under 16 are also implicated. If these young ladies would have had power of decision at the correct moment, they would have known the best way to care their health and to best contraception method for them to use. Nevertheless, the vast majority of these girls do not know anything about sexual education. From this basis, British authorities are deeply worried by the high rate of abortion and the disinformation about sexual education. And hence, the British government issues a law in which sexual education is to be taught in both primary and secondary schools.
Sexual education has been part of the science curriculum for almost two decades. Studied as a mere process of a mammal, human reproduction has been studied not well developed as a moral issue of values. So, the new legal basis provides a moral framework, age appropriate according the level the child or teenager is on. Although the government will provide each school with a model of f how to teach sexual education reshaping is possible. Many religious congregations may take this issue from different perspective whether giving importance to the role of parents or the relevance of virtues. The government suggests that what they want is that teenagers and children don’t consider sex as a reproduction organs and that’s all. They want to give sexual education with a moral understanding.
The government believes that from this new approach students may be able to a mature manner. In that way, teenagers would consider the possibilities to take care of themselves using a contraception method and not having the need to be exposed to dangerous consequence after an abortion.

REVIEW: 13-In education, furniture matters, too

13-In education, furniture matters, too
Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/25/america/25desks.php
Newspaper: International Herald tribune
The kinaesthetic approach on how to teach in a classroom puts emphasis on the essential role furniture has on the child. The display of and how the furniture is ordered help the student to concentrate on their studies more and more. This approach was put into practised by a new institution in Minnesota as the newspaper article In education, furniture matters, too published February 25, 2009.
Classrooms filled with small and heavy desks that were all ordered in long queues are out of fashion but rather than becoming an obsolete trend, the old desks did not allow mobility in the classroom. A new design overwhelmed the old ones. This new design allows the student switch between sitting and standing as their moods dictate since they have swinging footrests and adjustable stools.
This new furniture design has a positive impact since children have the flexibility they need to expend their energy. And hence, they focus on their work better. Yet, furniture is sometimes expensive and it depends on the funds each school has. Although this furniture is rather expensive, the benefits are many and many schools try to save money so as to buy them and experiment using this novelty.
To sum up, schools from Minnesota are pioneers in having new furniture that allows students mobility in the classroom. Many others schools want o imitate with the hope that their students have better result in their process of learning.

REVIEW: 12-How to cope when school is “hell”

12-How to cope when school is “hell”
LINk: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7901598.stm
NEWSPAPER: BBC NEWS
Friday, 27 February 2009

Some specialists consider that schools should teach lessons that involve mental illness as part of health education. The primary concern to teach such a topic at schools is because there is an increasing tendency in mental health problem among students from different ages ranging from 8 to 18 years old. Many of the reasons why these mental illnesses appear as well as the possible contributions to find a way out to this problem that is affecting children and teenager in their school years are explained in a recent research published in an article in the BBC on line.
It is known that children are sometimes cruel and this is clearly shown when nuts turn into bullying. There are cases where school mates avoid speaking to a certain teenager discriminating him or her. This isolation with time provokes depression and this in turn ends up in self harming or suicide. It must be remembered how important the sense of belonging for teenagers is. Yet, teenagers do not try to empathise who are different and so they still isolate the other who does not look or behave like the majority does.
Fortunately, many plausible solutions to stop this desegregation and future mental problems have emerged through out the last years. First of all, schools ask the advise of specialist to give students talks so they can express their opinion and listen to different positions in the issue. The function of these speeches is to make students aware that any of them can suffer from these psychological stigmas and to stop those who used to bully at their mates. What’s more teachers are also taught how to react in front of uncomfortable situations among teenagers constant taunts. What has been really positive was the government attention on those cases since authorities have offered direct links between primary acre trusts and schools to help those children displaying signs of mental health.
To sum up, a union among schools, teenagers, specialists and governmental funds contribute to a possible solution of a problem that seemed once that was impossible to uproot from schools: bullying and its terrible consequences: mental health illnesses.

REVIEW: 11- Mexico’s drug-fuelled violence

11- Mexico’s drug-fuelled violence
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906284.stm
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Tuesday, 24 February 2009
NEWSPAPER: BBC NEWS
Violence spreads along and across Mexico. Once they were regarded vacation places have now turned into red zones where mafia and drug dealers coexist in a long killing with military troops. According to what was published by the New York Times, some 6000 people died in violence related to organized crime.
The violence has increased in the last years in cities where drug cartel work full time. Cities such as Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Sinaloa manage to avoid police control and patrolling by exterminating security provided by the government to innocent citizens who have nothing to do with drugs and mafia. In those cities important rug cartel operate and control the rug business using highly sophisticated weaponry gets rid of control of the Mexican army easily. Such is the power of the cartels that they promote to protests against the government’ measures in relation to cartels control.
Why the Mexican president insists on the capture of these influential people is just because he needs to have control of those regions that are out of control. This desperate need is shown in the continuous investigation of suspected corrupt police officers from low to high positions officials. The government asked the army to help him in his desperate asking for help. Yet, many human rights’ specialists warn the Mexican president the possible future ending of his democratic presidency.
Fear of being removed by the army, the Mexican president asked for help to the army and police officers to combat what is destroying a once known a Caribbean paradise.

REVIEW: 10-In turnabout, children take caregiver role

10-In turnabout, children take caregiver role
Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/23/healthscience/23care.php

Newspaper: International HERALD tribune
Published: February 23, 2009

Many children do not know how being a child is like. Everyday, there are more reports about children who take care of their ill parents reassuming extra responsibilities at their age. This issue is illustrated in the newspaper article In turnabout, children take caregiver role published on February 23, 2009.
Many of these caregivers grow up resentful because they think their childhood was taken away from them at an early age. Most of them experience depression and sacrifice extracurricular activities. Unfortunately, so much is the responsibility taken that they sometimes quit school. Yet, there are many children who develop maturity and self esteem. These children consider them vital for their parents because they are a necessary hand for their families. Some children feel they are doing something positive for their lives. Most of the families of these caregivers are from low income families or have no health assistance so these are some of the reason why they find they are doing something good.
Now, local authorities are deeply worried for those children hence they work with school teachers so as to teach them how to spot these cases and take action immediately before the child do not go to school any longer. The government provides the school staff with organizations and programs to help those children who undergo the experience of being a caregiver. There they would find support have classes about caregiving and help them through this situation.
To sum up, these children need the support from professionals but not just giving them moral support but by sending some kind of help like a reduction on the health services these ill parents need. Besides the children are still children and there is no right to take their childhood off them. Of course, these may depend on each case, since many of them take his as a way to redeem their morality.

REVIEW: 9-What’s eating our kids? Fears about “bad” foods

9-What’s eating our kids? Fears about “bad” foods
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26food.html?ref=dining
Newspaper: The New York Times
By ABBY ELLIN
Published: February 25, 2009


The new trend is to eat organic food and many parents adopt this as a law. There a re legions of parents who are vigilant about their children’s consumption of sugar, processed foods and trans fats. Many of them try to stick to strict vegan diets and transmit their ideas about their idealization of what good and healthy food means to them to their children.
What parents do not become aware is that they print their version in their kids mind in such a way that they become obsessed with their food consumption. Many parents become overzealous in efforts to engender good eating habits in children. Maybe, parents have good intentions but they do not consider the possible future and negative consequences their constant advises may produce on their sons and daughters’ health: Bulimia and anorexia among other eating disorders.
Some specialists think this obsession for the consumption of healthy food is a form of anorexia. This bad habit when it is carried out in a strict way is known as orthorexia. This psychological disease is shown in the obsession to eat what the consumer thinks in his own belief it healthy for him. After few months, this consumer looses weight and vitality and finally his obsessive behaviour increases in many aspects of his everyday life like in social interactions and at their jobs. That’s why it is said that eating disorders come out of a disordered psyche.
To sump up, it is really worrying that parents oblige their children to become vegans because they just think it is “healthy”. But what is even more worrying is the fact that such is their belief in what ids considered good food that they avoid the consumptions of many vital substances that our bodies really need leading their children to eating disorders as well.

REVIEW: 8- Sex offenders face website bans

8- Sex offenders face website bans

LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7328170.stm
Newspaper: The BBC
4 April 2008 13:06 UK
Most sex offenders and paedophiles use the net to find what they are looking for: children and adolescents. They enter social web pages that are used by children and teenagers. Since these social networks provide personal information, pictures and so on, adolescents as well as children are exposed to those unscrupulous who play dirty. To face this situation, many specialists as well as authorities have provided some plausible solutions as well as recommendations for service providers and safety advice for first-time users.
Authorities and network web pages such as Facebook and others suggested they can cooperate by having a filter to those paedophiles trying to have access to information of young people. These social web pages would make it more difficult for people registered over the age of 18 to search users under the age of 18. Although this filter could be expensive, it is one possibility to be safe. This filter allows a patrolling of the internet to keep predators away from children. What’s more, there would be a list of every site that is generally used by paedophiles to avoid using them.
But, what is really important here is that security comes accompanied from home. Parents must engage what the interests of their kids really are. Parents should encourage children not to provide excessive information about themselves. Parents’ supervision of who her or his daughter web’s friends are is quite important in this process to put their children away from danger. They should not intrude but to speak to their sons and daughters and tell them to be aware what they write or publish on some web pages or not to accept at once an invitation for a personal meeting for example.To sum up, conscience and awareness should be practised by every one involved from parent through children to authorities and web sites