13 May 2012

ISABELLA ROSSELINNI EXPLAINS IT ALL

Isabella Rossellini explains all about sex among animals.
Hilarious short movies produced by the Sundance Channel. Bees, earthworms, you name it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkm3CCX1_xk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

WEIRD TOYS

An American company produces toys based on child drawings. You can see their products here:

http://www.childsown.com/

A bit upsetting, isn'it? What's left of that space that Winnicott called the "transitional space" that is neither fantasy nor reality?

Lowering kids´ academic pressure

The American Psychological Association (APA) published an interesting research about the effect of academic pressure on kids´school performances. It turns out that lowering the pressure, by telling them learning can be difficult and failures are normal, will raise their self-esteem, lower their fear of failure and improve their school results.

Read more here: http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2012/03/academic-pressure.aspx

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