by GenesisAdmin | Apr 26, 2018 | Barriers to Learning, Emotional Development |
Everybody loves the positive emotions, right?! Bring on happiness, joy, pride and love by the truck full. But negative emotions make us feel uncomfortable and often, we do our utter best to avoid them. Yet, negative emotions are important. We probably all agree that...
by GenesisAdmin | Apr 20, 2018 | Parent guidance |
Even though recent studies suggest that the teenage pregnancy rate in South Africa has remained relatively stable in recent years, it is difficult to ignore the fact that 71 out of every 1000 births annually are to teenage mothers. In 2013 there were 99 000 teenage...
by GenesisAdmin | Mar 17, 2018 | Barriers to Learning |
When I say the word “Lithium” many of you may make a loose association in your head with the word “depression”. And you’d be on the right track. In 1949 Australian psychiatrist John Cade first published a paper on the use of Lithium in...
by GenesisAdmin | Feb 11, 2018 | Barriers to Learning, Parent guidance |
It breaks my heart. They sit at my desk looking like deer in headlights: eyes wide; nostrils flaring and stubbornly, resolutely refusing to even just try. Their potential is so obvious! I know that if I could fast forward into the future these will be the star...
by GenesisAdmin | Oct 15, 2017 | Barriers to Learning, Parent guidance, Social Development |
Children with selective mutism are physically capable of speaking, but do not speak in specific situations or to specific people. For more information on Selective Mutism and how it presents in children, read this...
