Our sons used to fight like hell as kids. One fine day, I told our younger son to think...
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Helping Our Body With Our Mind: Family-Wide Issue
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, art of living, awareness, calorie counting, child, family, food, food fads, fruits and vegetables, healthy, healthy eating, healthy exercise, Planning, teen, weight loss, 0Let us think that our body is like a sacred temple that hosts us. We need to upkeep the...
Formative Years of Teen Identity: Dealing with Imperfection
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, art of living, awareness, conduct, development, focus, frustration tolerance, mani pavuluri, teen, 0This is true for at least on one day of the teen life, if not a lot, as teens...
Caution Vs. Risk with Suicidal Teen: Heart of the Matter is Neither
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, break up, breakup, child, classroom, cognitive, conduct, counselling, depression, emotion, frustration tolerance, kindness, mani pavuluri, problem solving, resilience, safety, suicidal ideation, suicide, teacher training, teen, 0Well, what I want to say is it is not white and black ever when it comes to determining...
Knee Jerk Reaction: Brain’s Non-Reflective Response
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, art of living, awareness, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, conduct, discipline, emotion, executive function, feeling, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, problem solving, stress, teacher, teen, thinking, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 0Have you heard of the expressions like- oh he has the brain in the knee, knee jerk reaction or...
Concentration: Is the Problem Real?
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, attention, brain function, child, cognitive, concentration, emotion, focus, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, Motivation, problem solving, resilience, sensorimotor integration, stress, teacher, teen, thinking, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 0Often at school and home alike, we see children perform variably across tasks. Countless times, teachers and parents ask...
Amygdala and Emotions
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, domain, emotion, feeling, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, stress, teen, 2I was delivering a speech in University of Athens, Athens, Greece. I was describing that amygdala is the size...