According to a recent Associated Press article, the freshly crowned number 2 automaker in the world, Toyota, is voluntarily gearing up to soon equip its cars with high-tech automatic blood-alcohol detection devices.
Archives for March 2007
A less-than-apparent parent trap
maturing kids pay attention not to parents' and teachers' words, but to underlying meanings. Hyped-up compliments and encouragement means they need help and emotional bolstering to reach even an average level of achievement, whereas criticism means they have untapped potential for excellence…
More self-esteem = less cause for others' esteem
over-praising kids leads to a tendency toward selfishness, hyper-competitiveness, and the desire to tear down others’ success.
Giving an "A" for effort…
n the last Daily Dose, I started to show you some new evidence that today’s self-esteem-based parenting is actually ruining kids instead of spurring them to new heights of achievement and personal success.
Self esteem self-destructs…
Basically, the findings of both some new research and some more rigorous analysis of existing research concludes that telling kids how smart, gifted, or special they are does NOT spur them to greater heights of achievement
Weird, Wild, and Wacky – the "rubber match"
If the entire mainstream medical establishment and all the politicians were all of a sudden to do everything I tell them – to start making sense, in other words – there would still be plenty to write about. And weirdly, all of today's features just happen to involve RUBBER.
Dancing – and romancing in the "air"
Italian researchers (speaking of the romantic) have discovered that there’s an especially “lovely” form of exercise for cardiac rehabilitation patients that’s every bit as beneficial for them as mainstream staples
Kindergarten Crock
According to the Herald Mail report, 28 Maryland kindergarten students were suspended in the 2005-2006 school year for sex offenses!
Sexual (Office) Politics – The Morass of Harassment, part one
My reasons for talking about this today are numerous: One, because nobody else is standing up for the real victims of today’s sexual harassment policies: Men in the workplace
New medical science beats within the breast… (Stem) Cellular developments, part 2
According to a recent article in the UK Daily Mail (London), an experimental heart attack therapy study involving stem cells was started in Britain just weeks ago.
