( 2 )
Nature solves Mental Contradictions in Inventive ways
Posted On Sunday, July 4th, 2010 By textonscreen
Dimensional Dandelion
Resilience & Motivation: A Feed for Another Facet of the Diamond
Posted On Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 By textonscreen
Resilience and Motivation
How did you learn to Remember?
Posted On Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 By textonscreen
Image via Wikipedia If one learned to remember – then when should we do it? There is one thing about parenting I just realized. My youngest daughter said to me “Mum how I am supposed to remember things that I forget”. I had to think about that because I put myself into the mind of asking that exact question and I came up with – often I don’t remember something; it’s not that I forget, but then who reminds us to remember? How do we remember as adults? We have things in place to remind us, but how often do we rely on part of our brain to recall things that are important and recall those things timely? We have to remember everyday to look at the calendar or the diary; but for children? I pondered that thought and thought – wow; I have not forgotten things – I just haven’t remembered them. There are the easy things like – wake up, get up, get dressed, make your bed, put your pj’s away, choose breakfast – eat breakfast, pick up your lunch, clean your teeth, wash your face, pack the bag – what goes in the bag; homework, library books, Continue Reading
Underpinning Parallel Leaders?
Posted On Monday, November 30th, 2009 By textonscreen
Image via Wikipedia I wonder why sometimes it is that I perceive things the way I do. The way I do seems to be the way in which these things have their association to other things – correlation is a remarkable consciousness. My children go to school and they happily engage. Okay, so there are the random days where they would rather stay at home with Mummy; well! okay the younger one – because the older beautiful girl prefers school over home during the week. Being involved with a systemic approach to change really makes me wonder sometimes. Do I remain in broader systemic issues; or do I localize and transfer energies into areas that require individual change to grow into systemic change that can then underpin strategy?. Wonder what I am talking about? I work in mental health; this is the fundamental aspect in life that I am courageously challenged to act within. I mean how often is it that one gets to organically render the future by participating in life “moment by moment” not by – “what someone said”; or, by “oh what shall we do now” the individual crux of the smelly undy. Individual drama seem to Continue Reading
A Rude Culture Shock? the all butt naked truth?
Posted On Thursday, October 29th, 2009 By textonscreen
As I was emailing an expression of interest & out of interest I happened to see a @612brisbane tweet flash by my page asking questions to listeners about “what age do we leave our children alone at home” – my response was automatically coupled by the page I turned in local paper moments before – so I scanned it and these are the thoughts that I have as type. Does it matter what age we leave our children alone? look what is happening by bringing information into the home! do we care enough about how information is expressed? in which format? in which area? this scares me this image; I am only too happy that these children are not mine on this page! my daughter was horrified when I asked her opinion of the news upon the page. If these children were mine? what would I do? The minding of the frame is just terribly wrong here – it sends incongruent messages and we wonder why children grow up messed up?
Protection Seekers – Arn’t we All?
Posted On Monday, October 19th, 2009 By textonscreen
Does it really matter why they are coming to Australia when we understand what they are coming for? Protection … some think they are coming here to get a job … a job to them is a beginning to provide protection … isn’t protection what everyone requires; but may not be aware of? No protection then no freedom; they haven’t even got freedom of voice because of the language bridge. The public should start investing in government homes with secure rental schemes. Local communities need more resources into mental health before the physical state of the country & it’s people are equally depressed; these people will not be able to pay for psychologists, they won’t even know how to help themselves through a mechanism that exists to support emotional damage – these people are already traumatized; this will take a while to work out when people here begin to understand what they are saying because of the language diversity. Educate the public through the media & the children by introducing more diversity within their education environment and expose them to different cultures earlier so integration can provide sustainability for the future. Because there will be more waiting offshore. Aylum seekers, Continue Reading
Sorry
Posted On Friday, October 16th, 2009 By textonscreen
How many times is Sorry heard? is sorry not heard? or is sorry waiting to be heard? Who cares. The thing is sorry belongs to children who do things and don’t understand what could become of them; sorry is accepted as a form of acknowledgement. Sorry is the system that adults should use as a benchmark to provide children with solution skills; more time sitting with them talking – yarning about actions and reactions; about reactions then response – to me, this is a responsible version of parenting. But I guess if sorry isn’t taught in the right context we could be a long time waiting for this to become the majority rules. Sorry is the pre-cursor to – I acted; it didn’t appear to be right – although I don’t know why it wasn’t right. Sorry then becomes the formal mechanism that we as parents or carers should identify as a “trigger” that more information is required to reinforce the learning and understanding in our children. This smacking is cruel – it’s so mean. They say it is necessary to quieten things down. Well, I wonder how the noise was started – if it needs violence to quieten it? Continue Reading