Negative peer pressure doesn’t necessarily mean your child is being persuaded by “toxic friends” to try cigarettes, beer, or drugs. Quite often, children are excluded by cliques and are left to feel miserable, unworthy of friendship, depressed, and unhappy. Most kids would rather be members of cliques, no matter what it takes to be accepted by […]
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Importance of education is noticeable in many aspects of our lives. Knowledge contributes to development of society, self empowerment, financial stability, and creating conditions for decent living. Understanding better the importance of education To understand the importance of education, take some time to consider few facts: -Think about your friends or people you know who have
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Test anxiety is feeling too much tension, nervousness, dread, and worry before taking a test. It’s normal to feel a little anxiety during important decision-making or some other important life events, but too much of it can interfere with our test performance and create insecurity, self depreciating thoughts, or even physical symptoms like nausea, hyperventilation,
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Child sexual abuse is any touching or non-touching sexual activity between a child and an adult. It’s the least reported type of abuse; victims suffer from fear, guilt, denial, withdrawal, post traumatic stress, “sleeper effect” and other mechanisms of coping with molestation, so diagnosing and proving child sexual abuse is often complex and difficult. What is
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