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Having a cell phone is now indispensable. Especially for those who are parents and need the technology to fulfill their role, as it provides monitor their children, mainly adolescents.
But the question that arises here is whether this technology allows more autonomy to its users, or if only one electronic attachment.
To find out, human development professor Robert Weisskirchen, the California State University , conducted a study with 196 pairs of parent and children, whose results were published in the journal “Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking”.

Why call?

“The phone is now an important part of the role of father. It’s how you stay in touch with the kids, “says” The New York Times “Amanda Lenhart, a researcher at the Pew Research Center Internet. Already in 2009 the 70% of adolescents in the U.S. spoke at least once a day with their parents.
In this country, 75% of young people have a cell phone, often purchased by their parents to stay in touch. Also, parents who are more likely to have one of these devices, compared with other adults.
The wide penetration of this technology led to wonder how she Weisskirchen can affect the dynamics of parent-child relationship. For this purpose, a questionnaire with different types of situations or circumstances in which young people call their parents and vice versa, they should be rated from “never” to “often.”
So, he realized that the nature of the call and whoever makes it can affect this link.

Telephone List

For example, young people mostly call her parents to “ask permission” or warn that they are late. Parents, meanwhile, call to find out where they are, check homework or express their anger at something.
When it is young people who take the initiative to call, this is associated with a better relationship with their parents, whom they consider as a good support near and to those with good communication. Parents feel gratified and calls seem to encourage self-esteem. “When young people are those who call for support or guidance, in general, along with their parents,” says Weisskirchen.
By contrast, if the parent who makes the call to monitor your child, check the fulfillment of their duties or to call attention to something that bothered them, the relationship tends to be more conflict and adolescent self-esteem has lower.
Weisskirchen stresses that the cell is good for the children’s transition to independence.

Results to be considered

Of the 196 couples who were part of the investigation, 13% were father and son, the 11% was composed of father and daughter, 30% mother and child and, finally, 46% mother and daughter.
It is because of this approach to the division of the sample, the findings should be viewed with caution, since most of it is mother-daughter pairs, which may limit generalizations.
The study also leaves out other forms of communication such as text messages (SMS), fixed-line calls and face to face exchanges, which can also be a bias to understand the communication between parents and children today.

Bullying is an English word bullying. Unfortunately, it is a word that is in fashion because of the innumerable cases of persecution and attacks that are being detected in schools and colleges, and are leading many students to live truly frightening situations.

Bullying refers to all forms of aggressive attitudes, deliberate and repeated, which occur without clear reasons, taken by one or more students against another or others. The exercises that bullying does to impose its power over the other through constant threats, insults, assaults, harassment, etc., And so it under its complete control over months or even years. The victim suffers shed in most cases. Threatening abuse makes you feel pain, distress, fear, to the point that in some cases, can lead to devastating consequences such as suicide.

Types of Bullying

We can talk about various types of bullying that often appear simultaneously:
- Physical: pushing, kicking, assault with objects, etc. It occurs more frequently in primary than in secondary.
- Verbal abuse and name-calling, slurs in public, highlighting physical defects, etc.. It is the most common.
- Psychological: undermine the individual’s self-esteem and foster their sense of fear.
- Social: attempts to isolate the young of other group members and classmates.

Free, free. My eyes will even stop my feet. These were among the last words he left written Jokin Zeberio, 14, before committing suicide by jumping into the void with their bike, from the top of the walls of Hondarribia, Spain, in September 2004. Jokin had been harassed by his colleagues for years. The constant threats, humiliation, insults, beatings, did suffer and led him to death. The fact the alarm rang social, political and educational, and has generated many debates. But, unfortunately, did not stop the phenomenon. Bullying cases emerge every day and we realize they are not recent or rare.

The erratic thinking is honored to be responsible for major discoveries like the law of gravity of Newton. All of us have ever experienced the benefits of letting our minds wander: the word on the tip of the tongue, where we left the screwdriver, the name of an old friend … But the price we pay for thinking instead of focusing on what we are doing could be high. Nothing less than happiness.

The brain is a kind of ‘super computer’, complex operation, which we know only a small part. We know it has conscious and unconscious activity, both of equal importance as they allow complex actions simultaneously and seamlessly, and is capable of thinking about the dinner menu while we attend a work call, a real evolution.

This ability to digression seems to be the default operating mode of the brain “, explained Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), in the pages of the journal Science. Without it, certain situations would be terribly boring, like driving for hours, sunbathing or jogging. But it appears that “abuse” a little of this resource. Read the rest of this entry »

The use of MRI has uncovered three distinct patterns of brain activity in autism.

A group of researchers at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven (USA) has identified a pattern of brain activity that may characterize genetic vulnerability associated with the development of autism spectrum disorders. The results of their work, which was coordinated by Kevin A. Pelphrey, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

By using MRI, the authors have analyzed the brains of autistic children and siblings of those affected do not have the disease. The analysis was done as they watched animations that mimic the biological motion. Compared with the control group, Pelphrey and his team observed three distinct neural signatures.

Offset the risk

The first refers to a reduced brain activity in regions that autistic children and siblings had in common and that explains the brain disrrupciones to the disease. The second is a similarly reduced activity in regions linked only to the affected children, which provides neuroendofenotipos linked to genomic complexity and heterogeneity of the disease. The third point to increased activity in areas related only unaffected siblings. Read the rest of this entry »

Pesticides used on fruits and vegetables could be related to the onset of the condition of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. This has revealed a study by the University of Montreal, Canada.

The researchers measured the levels of pesticide were 1139 children from a urine sample each. Also interviewed the parents, to determine which children had the disorder and what does not. The participants, aged between eight and 15 years, had been part of a study carried out by the government between 2000 and 2004.

The results showed that almost all of them had up to 94 percent of this substance. One thing to remember is that children, due to their weight, are more exposed than adults to health risks caused by pesticides.

According to the study, published in Pediatrics, children who had the most amount of pesticides in the urine were more likely to develop ADHD. Read the rest of this entry »