It Often Feels As If A Monster Is Trying To Make You Sink When You're Struggling To Float
Teens report that their stress level during the school year far exceeds what they believe to be healthy (5.8 versus 3.9 on a 10-point scale) and tops adults’ average reported stress levels (5.8 for teens versus 5.1 for adults). Even during the summer — between Aug. 3 and Aug. 31, 2013, when interviewing took place — teens reported their stress during the past month at levels higher than what they believe is healthy (4.6 versus 3.9 on a 10-point scale). Many teens also report feeling overwhelmed (31 percent) and depressed or sad (30 percent) as a result of stress. More than one-third of teens report fatigue or feeling tired (36 percent) and nearly one-quarter of teens (23 percent) report skipping a meal due to stress
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We could always begin with the good ol' High School students who have so many tests and quizzes coming out of their ears that they literally would lay down face first on a pile of cow manure instead of going to learn all of the elements of the Periodic Table after just coming from Spanish where they learned about the imperfect and the Vosotros form. Rather I think I'll start little, really little. Elementary, my dear Watson. Yes I'm starting with K-3rd. Now although the way elementary and primary and all that fun stuff goes in every state I'm naming these Elementary on my own thought process. So what stress could little kids possibly have that it messes with them so much? As an Aunt, I can tell you that little kids have more stress then you would of thought. In some states they are required to wake up early (where I'm located they're up at 530am everyday) and they don't get nap time anymore. This is their earliest education and their brain remembers the most information from this period of time, that's why most people remember their kindergarten teacher by name and can tell you their favorite activity from that year. So they learn at quite a young age that school is the number one priority and it needs to be taken seriously, and they learn that everything must be done on time and that there's a spelling test on every Friday. My nephew worries over getting his homework done and making sure it's correct rather than going home and going outside and enjoying his day liker a 7 year old SHOULD do. This does effect the future of that child because they will grow up in an environment that he doesn't go outside in. That's a psychological effect of school and how it alters the brain to believe that rather than enjoying time being a child that you must worry about amazing grades and just play inside so that when an adult has to come and check your homework that you can easily get back to the table to do it. Adults believe that giving them recess allows them to exercise out all their energy and they can do their work and that 20 minutes of running around exhausts them so they can learn. By the time my nephews get home they have a full battery that they run around the house with, children need to be children without the stress of school clouding their judgment of what "playing" is. A school teacher in North Texas sets down a no homework policy to give children more time to do what they do best, be kids, eat a good supper, run around outside, spend time with family. Do everything they cant do because homework got in the way. A 7 year old is already coming home from school tired and with a headache because of the day he's had and that just proves something is entirely wrong. The teacher expresses the importance of family and The Washington post wrote this article to portray the teachers message "Brandy Young, a second-grade teacher in Godley Independent School District, not far from Dallas-Fort Worth, passed out a letter to parents, telling them that she will not be assigning homework to students this year. “After much research this summer, I am trying something new,” she wrote in the letter, which was posted on Facebook. “Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year. Research has been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. Rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside and get your child to bed early.” So to get success we must end the idea of stress.
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Just your typical 17 year old 12th grade girl who complains about the stress of life after she moved from New York to a small town in Tennesee Quote Of The Day:
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh ArchivesCategories |