March 2014 - Session NotesSession Notes

Still, “Helping,” your children with homework?
March 31, 2014 Comments Off on Still, “Helping,” your children with homework?

SF Gate

Keith Robinson, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Angel L. Harris, a sociology professor at Duke, looked at 63 measures of parental involvement in children’s lives, including helping with homework, volunteering at school, punishing kids with bad grades, observing in the classroom, returning calls from the school and meeting with teachers and the principal. Robinson and Harris found that most had little effect on a child’s academic success.

The researchers also found that as children got older and entered middle school parental homework help had a negative effect, bringing down test scores. “Even though they may be active in helping, they may either not remember the material their kids are studying now, or in some cases never learned it themselves, but they’re still offering advice.
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How to destructive-conflict proof your relationship.
March 29, 2014 Comments Off on How to destructive-conflict proof your relationship.

Psychology Today

Looking back over my 20 years as a couples therapist, and considering the many other couples I’ve encountered in my personal life, I realize that the happiest and most satisfied of them exhibited three specific relationship skills. Don’t be disheartened if you and/or your partner are not great at these skills. They rarely come pre-installed; they need to be learned and practiced:
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Some signs of hope…
March 28, 2014 Comments Off on Some signs of hope…

Canadian Mags

Come Monday, five unpaid interns at Toronto Life magazine will be out of work because of a visit this week by an inspector of the employment standards branch of the Ontario Ministry of Labour. St. Joseph Media has been told that under the provisions of the Employment Standards Act it can no longer offer four-month unpaid internships unless the interns are fulfilling a job placement requirement from a school of higher education. This is not the case for most interns at Toronto Life historically, although two of the current 7 interns qualify and will be staying on.
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And now, from the, “Who would have guessed it,” department…
March 27, 2014 2 Comments on And now, from the, “Who would have guessed it,” department…

Web MD

They analyzed crime rates in all 50 states between 1990 and 2006. During that time, 11 states legalized medical marijuana: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

Using FBI data, the researchers looked at rates of murder, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft.
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Understanding male narcissism
March 26, 2014 Comments Off on Understanding male narcissism

Vice

He doesn’t simply celebrate his existence; he celebrates how much better his existence is than everyone else’s. No one goes as hard as he does; no one has killed it as he has. He never gets hangovers or takes no for an answer or fucks the ugly friend. He crushes that next-level pussy, bruh, only the finest. He is pinstripes and full Windsor knots, smashing bottles and spiking footballs, things that are irrepressible, things that smack you in the face.
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Peek through the window of an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous.
March 24, 2014 Comments Off on Peek through the window of an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous.

Salon

By spring, Dominic had dropped out of college. His parents turned to the family doctor for advice. She told him to double down on AA-to attend ninety meetings in ninety days, which is a common AA prescription.

It worked. Although many of the faces at the meetings kept changing and Dominic constantly felt the urge to drink, he found a few “oldtimers” who believed wholly in the program and who encouraged him to dismiss the great majority of people who fell through the cracks.
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What happens when you just let children play.
March 22, 2014 Comments Off on What happens when you just let children play.

National Post

He didn’t start asking “why” until he became part of a playground and risk study by Auckland University researcher Grant Schofield and his research manager, Julia McPhee, three years ago. The researchers gave 16 schools a grant of $15,000 to build their vision of a playground that would reintroduce risk and help encourage physical activity in children.

“It hadn’t occurred to me that anyone would actually abandon all school rules,” Prof. Schofield said.
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Why you can keep your Chocolate addiction…
March 20, 2014 Comments Off on Why you can keep your Chocolate addiction…

Design Trend

“We found that there are two kinds of microbes in the gut: the good ones and the bad ones,” Maria Moore, an undergraduate student and one of the study authors, said in a news release.

“The good microbes, such as Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria, feast on chocolate,” Moore added.
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The end is nigh — no, really…
March 19, 2014 Comments Off on The end is nigh — no, really…

C-Net

“Even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the solution appears to be on a sustainable path for quite a long time, then Elites grow and consume too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society,” it says. According to one model run during the research, there is a total collapse of society just 125 years after the elites reach their maximum size.
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Hard truth about addiction/recovery culture.
March 18, 2014 Comments Off on Hard truth about addiction/recovery culture.

Psychology Today –

For Some in A.A. and Other Addiction Recovery Groups, the Death of Philip Seymour Hoffman Hits Home.

In the first hours and days that followed Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death from an apparent overdose of heroin, there was an outpouring of grief on Facebook, on Twitter and in columns by recovering addicts and alcoholics like the journalist Seth Mnookin and the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about their own struggles with sobriety and the rarely distant fear of relapsing back into the throes of active addiction.
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