Ohio dad makes girl walk miles to school for bullying on bus. The shop where it's OK to be different. Two brothers on the autistic spectrum were looking for work when one had the idea of opening a comic shop.
Faster diagnosis from 'transformational' gene project. Scientists in Cambridge have completed the world's largest gene sequencing project in healthcare - which brings hope of better understanding of diseases and faster diagnosis.
People with rare diseases, their family members and cancer patients took part. Genomics England described the project as "transformational in what it means to society and humanity". One in four participants with rare diseases received a diagnosis for the first time. Until now, parents of children with rare genetic conditions typically spent years trying to find out the cause. How do you tackle stress in the workplace?
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Children with problems or problem children? There's nothing pleasant about being on the end of a child's angry or aggressive outburst - whether you're a parent or a teacher.
And if that outburst happens in a classroom rather than the sitting room, the consequences for the child can be much more serious. But how can we tell if the child is just "being naughty" or whether mental ill health is the root cause? Meet the artist whose brain makes him paint all night. Emotional intelligence: why it matters and how to teach it. In our work with schools, it’s now commonplace for us to hear those in education talking about helping students (and staff) develop their emotional intelligence.
But what do we mean exactly? Why and how should teachers support its development in their students? Emotional intelligence can be said to cover five main areas: self-awareness, emotional control, self-motivation, empathy and relationship skills. Can too little sleep ruin your relationship? Is your partner irritating?
Have you stopped having a laugh, gone off sex and no longer care if they seem unhappy? Before you reach for a counsellor or lawyer, check how much sleep you are getting. While research has consistently linked lack of sleep with increased risks of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and premature death, it is now finding that it is also corrosive to relationships.
Since more than a third of us get only six hours a night (less than the recommended seven to nine), we shouldn’t be surprised if our love lives are suffering. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker review – how more sleep can save your life. Awake at 4.30am the other morning, having been roused from sleep by my four-year-old son climbing into bed with my wife and me (a more or less nightly occurrence), I found myself sitting up and reading about the effects of insufficient sleep.
It has been making me stupider, fatter, unhappier, poorer, sicker, worse at sex, as well as more likely to get cancer, Alzheimer’s and to die in a car crash. Why teachers should make sleep a priority. Aisling Bea: ‘My father’s death has given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness’ My father died when I was three years old and my sister was three months.
For years, we thought he had died of some sort of back injury – a story that we had never really investigated because we were just too busy with the Spice Girls and which one we were (I was a Geri/Mel B mix FYI). Then, on the 10th anniversary of his death, my mother sat us down and explained the concept of suicide.
Sure, we knew about suicide. At 13, I had already known of too many young men from our town who had taken their own lives. My son has been watching programmes about Nazis and serial killers. Can men get postnatal depression? Are you sensitive to others in social interaction? – personality quiz. Passers-by 'afraid' to speak to homeless. Image copyright Getty Images Two thirds of Scots never stop to speak to homeless people, according to a new study.
Charity Street Soccer Scotland, which commissioned the research, also said that 41% of those questioned were "fearful" of approaching the homeless. The research shows younger people aged 16 to 24 were least likely to stop and talk. Depression link between fathers and teenage children, says study. Young people out of love with their own bodies, says report. Image copyright Science Photo Library Body dissatisfaction can start as young as six and lead to depression, anxiety and eating issues, MPs will be told.
The Youth Select Committee urged the government to recognise the seriousness of body image fears, before young people suffered a long-term impact. It is launching its report into the issue, A Body Confident Future, as part of the annual Parliament Week. One expert said it was now normal for young people "to be unhappy with the way their bodies look". Dr Phillippa Diedrichs, associate professor at the Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, added that body dissatisfaction was the biggest known risk factor for eating disorders such as bulimia.
"It is a really important mental health issue, and I don't think it is taken seriously enough," she said. Expert witnesses The Youth Select Committee is a British Youth Council initiative, supported by the House of Commons, with 11 members aged from 13 to 18.