It’s the First Monday in October, meaning it’s National Child Health Day. It’s a day established in 1928 to promote our children’s physical health, but why not focus on their mental and emotional well-being, too? We can play a few active games with them, take a walk or bike ride together, or team up to clean up the garden. We can also spend some extra time with them, maybe having a little picnic in the backyard, doing some chores together and complementing them on their help, giving them a few extra hugs, talking to them, one-on-one, about friends, school, activities they’re involved in or a movie you saw together or an incident when you both saw someone acting as a bully. Yes, these are things we should be doing every day with our children. But this is a great day to redouble our efforts–for the good of our children.
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Death Okay for Mentally Ill?
What’s the big deal about executing people? If they killed someone, isn’t it their own fault that they’ll die for it?
The answer depends on whether you think childhood trauma, brain injury, intellectual disabilities,, and serious mental illness–or a combination of these factors– is the offender’s fault or choice. Did 18 people in the U.S. die at the hands of the state in 2018 because the crimes they committed were influenced by something not in their control? It’s something to consider when we mark our ballots on the issue of the death penalty. Take a look at this chart:
Kill off the Defectives
What kind of society kills off its mentally disturbed and low-IQ citizens? Us, as is shown by two executions earlier this week. A Missouri inmate who was considered mentally disturbed was executed, as was a Georgia man with an IQ of 70. This is not uncommon in our American justices system.
I find this VERY unsettling.
The World, Mental Health, & the Death Penalty
Today is the 12th annual World Day Against the Death Penalty. This year the focus is on mental health. The message the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty hopes to get across is that too many prisoners who are mentally ill or intellectually disabled are being executed rather than receiving treatment to address the condition that is the underlying cause of the crime. Many of us wish that our country would join other industrialized countries in abolishing the death penalty totally; many others view executing a person who is mentally ill or the mental age of a child as barbaric.
For more information about this day and topic, and for what you can do, go to http://www.worldcoalition.org/worldday.html.
Older People Too Smart for their Own Good
[Maybe it’s my age, but this article from The Telegraph makes sense to me. Thanks to Verne Meade for sending me this.]
Brains of elderly slow because they know so much
The brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive, scientists believe.
Older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.
Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full up, so to do humans take longer to access information, it has been suggested.
Researchers say this slowing down it is not the same as cognitive decline.
…….READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10584927/Brains-of-elderly-slow-because-they-know-so-much.html.