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  (By Amanda Babaro) You just got home from school and you’re thirsty. You grab a water bottle, you drink it, now it’s empty, but you want more, much more. You reach back into the fridge, this time your hand grazes right pass the water. You inch your hand backwards, until jackpot.. You’ve hit your […]

Recently, there was a blog post by the organisation To Write Love on Her Arms that really resonated with me. It’s called “I Will Become What I Deserve,” which is a powerful line of one of my favourite songs, “The Fear” by Ben Howard. Here is the link to the blog post for anyone who

  You should never think negative thoughts about yourself. It’s fine to pinpoint your flaws in hopes of fixing them, but never dwell on your weak points. It’s unhealthy and will put you in the wrong frame of mind. In order to be happier, avoid thinking negative thoughts about yourself. 1. I’M NOT ___ ENOUGH

“Sex sells” is a phrase most people have heard. Advertisements use it, sometimes without people even realising it. How many times have you seen someone you find unattractive on a magazine cover? Why is it that most makeup and accessory companies use pretty models in their advertisements? If you could not guess, it is because

  Lauren Mills is only 13 years old, but the legally blind teen has been creating art for as long as she can remember. Lauren has Nystagmus, a condition that causes involuntary, fast-paced eye-movement. But the 9th grader at Peterson Seventh-Day Adventist Academy (US) is proving to be a shining inspiration to many who meet

  Few children spent their summer vacations practicing bar modeling or calculating word problems. However, this fall, it is expected that students will learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively and apply math skills to real-world situations. This means your child will be learning math in a much different way than you did, and it’s more

  Middle-class parents who shout at their teenage children are increasing their risk of depression and troubled behaviour. Even if parents enjoy a close relationship with their son and daughter, harsh verbal discipline was found have a dramatic impact on their teens’ emotional development, a study found. This form of discipline can vary from yelling

  Talking with an adolescent can be like walking through a minefield; at any moment, you could be asking what you thought was a simple, sincere question, only to find it triggering an explosive response. Research proves our instincts: The number one antidote to risky kid behavior is a strong relationship with a parent. Believe

  Are students prepared for the future? Are they graduating ready to innovate? What are some of the skills students should have in order to have a successful future? Those are some of the questions Tony Wagner  (follow him on Twitter @DrTonyWagner) answers in a powerful talk all about the skills students must have for

In secondary school, I was the type of person who felt no reason to read. For my history classes, the only parts of the textbooks I read were section heads, words in boldface type, and highlighted passages. Spark notes got me through my English classes, and for everything else there was Wikipedia. Sure, I read