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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-about-at-home? dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:57PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:57PM (#438466) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:42PM (#438524)

    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.

    Apropos of nothing in particular, you might find this interview of Steve Bannon [ijr.com] illuminating. One particular quote stood out for me:

    Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing.

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @11:15PM (#438549)

      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

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday December 07 2016, @11:15PM (#438550) Journal

    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

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:24PM (#438695) Journal

      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.

      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.

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