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A new federal report recommends that schools emphasize building children's "self-regulation" skills in order to increase opportunities for student success in a number of areas. The recommendation is one of several in the report, the fourth in a series on self-regulation research and practice from the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Researchers have zeroed in on the importance of self-regulation skills, which allow children to manage their thoughts and feelings, control impulses, and problem-solve.
"Self-regulation affects wellbeing across the lifespan, from mental health and emotional wellbeing to academic achievement, physical health, and socioeconomic success," said Desiree Murray, associate director of research at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and lead author of the report. "Unfortunately, prolonged or pronounced stress and adversity, including poverty and trauma, can delay children's self-regulation development."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:08PM
"'final solution' for illegal immigrants."
I know you weren't advocating genocide, but choosing wording like that can lead many to think you are. Or maybe you are, and are dropping that phrase as a threat disguised as subtext. Suddenly, I'm not so sure you didn't do it on purpose.
See why it's problematic?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:17PM
Maybe he's just a fan of Rocket From the Tombs.
Calm down Francis.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday December 07 2016, @03:17PM
I liked the word choice because there are similarities. Not problematic but precise and intentioned.
First of all from the left they will be very unhappy with endless analogies to the more famous solution, if its done "soon" like next 8 years. Its slavery, putting them in camps, etc. Unless of course a lefty president signs the bill in 9 years in which case it'll be brilliant and great, in the same fake news anyway. Regardless of who does it, it doesn't seem terribly controversial that what you're mentioning will be used in propaganda against whichever side implements the fix. Its not an unrealistic prediction of the opposing propaganda given historical events and superficial (but wrong) analogies.
Secondly the attitude is similar in that nobody gonna enjoy it very much and many will claim it unnecessary and many will declare it evil, but decades or centuries of kicking the can down the road are over, here's a final solution to the problem. It'll be vilified, yet seen as necessary when its finally implemented. Sometimes if you want to eliminate a problem you have to accept vilification, there are some problems that can't be fixed without sacrifice. So I'm not even annoyed at the first paragraph above, its gonna be rough to implement, but necessary, and the implementor, whoever it is, whatever side they're on, is going to catch a lot of flak about having done it. I don't think that's avoidable. Big problems result in big propaganda when they're fixed, thats how it is. So I think it realistic that not only will there exist propaganda against it, its going to be loud propaganda.
Thirdly there is the subtext in the Newtonian equal and opposite reaction. In that we know from historical experience that extreme values of pressure multiplied by time results in extreme results such as ovens and other well known unpleasantness. I'm not saying the logic or reasoning was correct, but I do believe in the mathematical model of integrate (in the calculus sense) enough problem over time, then as a mathematical fact after a certain line is crossed the ovens come out. I think it quite possible times could be very bad for immigrants in some imaginary "kick the can future" decades from now, very bad indeed, if nothing is "fixed". So there is a not veiled threat that if its not defused peacefully and early, possibly by a plan much like this, things could blow up more severely at a later time. Race war, genocide ... about all they have in common is historically everyone always thinks it'll happen to someone else and can't happen here, every victim says that. So yeah, its kinda a shot across the bow that kicking the can was funny for a few decades, but eventually a solution will be applied and I prefer mine above vs historical examples of firing up the ovens. Fix it soon enough and its off topic. Wait long enough while not fixing it and it seems inevitable that it'll unfortunately be very much on topic. Something like I propose we fix it soon the right way, or we all know how things inevitably can get fixed later the wrong way...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday December 07 2016, @03:26PM
Darn lack of editing, missed my forth argument for why the phrasing is absolutely perfect. I like alt-history and hard sci fi and thought experiments and last time people were rounded up into work camps "Arbeit macht frei" was like a sarcastic joke cause they got ovened. But what if they didn't and they got released unharmed in four years... would people still be complaining about war crimes? So its an interesting "someone should write a fictional-ish book" what if the final solution to illegals was to round them up into work camps with "Arbeit macht frei" written over the door and we actually literally did it, and they're free naturalized citizens if and only if they work for four years... Yeah may suck as a fictional book but its something to think about as a thought experiment.
Remember if you're rich enough every country in the world sells citizenship including the USA, costs I believe $500K in the USA, cheaper elsewhere. Conceptually this "work makes you free" work camp is paying the illegals $125K/yr and then collecting their entire tax free back pay after four years and issuing naturalization papers. $125K for some shovel work with benes and required free english classes seems a pretty fair deal to me, its not like we're paying prison labor wages here.
Prison labor wages are a whole nother travesty.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:33PM
So it is open threats of genocide and forced labor, then. Noted. Nobody need give you any benefit of the doubt anymore, nor attend to anything you write, because you admit your motivation. Your words come from depravity and drive toward perdition.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Webweasel on Wednesday December 07 2016, @03:47PM
No critique of VLM here, he used it intentionally and knew the context.
But man I wish people would learn history before spouting this kinda crap.
Currently my company is going through a internal rebranding called "THECOMPANYNAME(tm) way" You know, crap like "we listen to our customers" and "we are brave and do the right thing" etc.
So, we have posters around "One THECOMPANYNAME(tm)" promoting the "company way"
Everyday I have to resist writing "ein volk ein reich ein fuhrer ein THECOMPANY(tm)" on the posters.
Our head of infosec keeps talking about "The final solution" I told him he'd get kicked out of the labour party if he didn't stop. No one got it....
THEN the company came out with a "Five year plan"
I can't take anything seriously any more. Have these people ever studied history?
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:44PM
Somehow, I get the impression that there is someone in management at THECOMPANYNAME(tm) with a rather sly but twisted sense of humor. That's just my take on the situation.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:57PM
That's the most wretched aspect of this election's outcome, that VLM and his philosophical confederates have come out of the woodwork. Openly arguing for policies that would lead to forced labor and genocide. There is no excuse for that.
If there's anything good about it, it's that they've declared for evil. We don't have to guess or waste time and energy offering them quarter.
As far as loose usage and the inadvertent use of freighted terms go, yes, we could hope that people were less ignorant. They're never going to be. Even with universal public education, they persist. Even when you as a society succeed in teaching someone like VLM some useful skill, he uses hatred to drill into your skin and embed himself like a chigger, and you have difficulty rooting him out.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:42PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, you might find this interview of Steve Bannon [ijr.com] illuminating. One particular quote stood out for me:
Hmmm, I just wonder what Dick Cheney thinks of his being elevated to the Triumvirate of Evil. Or maybe he thinks of those other two guys as mere dilettantes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @11:15PM
Aw, Phoenix doesn't strike me as a bad sort (at least not as bad as others), but maybe forgets that until people are loaded up on the cattle cars, these are just words; ideas to be batted back and forth with no actual harm done to anyone.
And if he takes a step back, VLM's ideas aren't much different than what has been proposed for the DREAM Act, and national service service for citizenship has been around since forever.
As VLM puts it, these aren't new ideas. And comparisons to the Holocaust don't make for a convincing counter-argument.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 07 2016, @11:15PM
That's the most wretched aspect of this election's outcome, that VLM and his philosophical confederates have come out of the woodwork. Openly arguing for policies that would lead to forced labor and genocide. There is no excuse for that.
No excuse, definitely. But it is the silver lining of the Trumpheteer's victory. All these neo-Nazis were in the closet before. Now they think it is alright to speak up. This is a good thing, because we can identify them, and arrest them and deport them back to Nazi Germany where they came from. This is the thing about white supremecists: they are not too bright. bart.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:24PM
You're right about that. We should all give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but now VLM has relieved us of that burden in his case. His intentions are malevolent. Sadly, we cannot send him back in time to Nazi Germany, so that he might perhaps have been rehabilitated by the post-war German education system that has been largely successful in teaching its citizens that genocide is bad.
Let's not call him or white supremacists stupid unnecessarily, though. Foolish, yes. Short-sighted, yes. Malevolent, certainly. VLM is intelligent, and so are other white supremacists, I'm sure. The architects of the original 'Final Solution,' that VLM referred to, had PhD's. Ergo, not stupid. VLM does supply us with a fresh example that intelligence and virtue are not synonymous.
I regret that a Soylentil would openly advocate for enslaving and annihilating groups of human beings. It's a reminder to those who strive to knit civilization together that they can never rest on their laurels, because there are always perfidious characters among them who would use terror and assassination to tear it apart again.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @03:53PM
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(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @08:13PM
Ignore this VLM troll, please.