It is difficult for anyone to cope with horrible things happening to innocent people, but it is especially difficult for a child to handle. It is the responsibility of the parent to help guide a child through such horrendous acts of violence, but how should they go about doing that?
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The age of the child is a major factor of how you should handle the situation. “If it’s a very young child, I would keep him away from TV sets, try to limit their access to the kind of news that I’ve been watching myself on TV,” said Dr. Alan Hilfer. If the child is older it is important to calm them, as well as make sure that they know the world is not perfect and sometimes scary things can happen. Dr. Yeuhda said “resist completely minimizing the anxiety, because we do live in a world where it is important to prepare ourselves and our children for adversity. But the idea that bad things happen but you can be safe is a more powerful message than ‘don’t worry, that can never happen,’ which is fictitious and doesn’t ultimately serve to calm down a child. You can’t go against the reality.” The best thing to let your child know is that even though there are a few wicked people in the world, the majority of people are good. This information does not just apply to the Boston Marathon Bombing; it can also help with other tragedies the children might have to face.
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Chances are that if you are friends with a generally pro-marriage equality bunch, on Tuesday you probably saw your Facebook friends list turn into a bunch of red and white equal signs. The original equal sign avatar came from the Human Rights Campaign, a group that supports equal rights regardless of sexual orientation, who morphed their normally blue and gold logo into the avatar that’s making it’s way around the internet. So why was there a sudden push in the cause? Well, early last week, the Supreme Court heard two cases on the rights of gays to marry in this country.
So, how many people change their profile photo to the equal sign avatar?
It’s bound to be a lot if Tardar Sauce is on board.
Facebook took a look over its data to give us some semblance of an answer. They put the total of people who changed their pics over to the Human Rights Campaign’s equality sign (or some variation thereof) around the 2.7 million mark for U.S. Facebook users with roughly 3.5 percent of 30-year-old U.S. Facebook making the switch in photos.
Facebook’s Data Science team also mapped out the likelihood of a profile-pic update across the nation, showing a widespread geographic distribution everywhere outside of the south and parts of the plains region. In general, college towns saw high rates of participation as did major cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and DC.
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Dr. Kieffer and current psychology interns want to inform you about our INTERNSHIP PROGRAM!
Students will have a chance to talk to current interns and learn more about the internship application process.
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Earlier this week, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton released a video statement in support of marriage equality (see below). Clinton is the newest addition to the growing political support for marriage equality.
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In fact this month’s three big gay-marriage moments where prominent politicians repudiated their past positions have highlighted how the political response to this issue is evolving. For Democrats, it is now riskier to withhold a public stance on gay marriage than to rush in line in support. Republicans are also joining the cause in support making it less and less of a partisan issue. For example, Ohio’s Republican Sen. Rob Portman recently came out in support for marriage equality when previously he was against it. He said his view changed because about two years ago his son told him he was gay.
And while some may criticize the senator for the change in beliefs, he is not alone. A poll conducted this month by Pew Research Center, surveyed 1,501 adults nationwide and found that 49% of people support same-sex marriage while 44% oppose. This has changed significantly since the 2003 nationwide poll that found most Americans (58%) opposed to allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, and just a third (33%) in favor. The largest group of supporters come from the “Millennials” (those born since 1980 and age 18-32 today). 70% of Millennials support same-sex marriage growing from 51% in 2003. This is significant because today, 27% of adults are in the Millennial generation.
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To better understand this change in the direction of support, the new survey investigated whether participants had always held this view or if they have changed their mind on this issue. They found that more than a quarter of same-sex marriage proponents say their views have changed.
The reasons behind the shift varied but there were a few noticeable trends (see graph). 32% attributed the change to knowing someone whether it is a friend, family member or other acquaintance, who is homosexual. Very similar to Senator Portman’s situation. 25% said that their personal views changed due to extended thought on the issue or simply because they have grown older.
So with a growing number of the electorate showing support for marriage equality, politicians from both parties can no longer hide behind the traditional safe response of “let there be civil unions, not gay marriage, and let each state set its own policy”. For supporters of gay marriage, this statement appears to be a separate-but-equal proposition for the gay community. For opponents of same-sex unions, this stance invites legislative chaos for what they believe to be an unalterable human institution. This issue is not going away any time soon with more and more states bringing up marriage equality based legislation. The “safe” answers are no longer enough and politicians will have to decide quickly which side they want to side with.
Well, I’m not going to tell you that playing video games days in and days out is actually good for your health. It’s not, and binging is never good.
When we think about the effect of video games on the brain, it’s very similar to the effect of wine on the health. There are some very poor uses of wine. There are some very poor uses of video games. But when consumed in reasonable doses, and at the right age, wine can be very good for health.
In light of the recent cuts to the military tuition assistance sequester cuts, our military men and women no doubt have questions as to what options are still left for their education.
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First off, these cuts will only effect those signing up for tuition assistance for the first time. Service members currently enrolled in courses approved for tuition assistance are not affected and are allowed to complete their current courses.
These spending cuts are not set for a specific amount of time but will be re-evaluated if the budgetary situation improves.
To make it through the cuts, make use of tuition assistance resources.
While, tuition Assistance has been a key benefit paid to eligible service members, there are other options for financial assistance.
Apply for federal student aid through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Apply for scholarships
Use your VA benefits: Veterans, as well as active service members, may continue to pursue their educational goals with VA education benefits, if applicable, that include: the Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty (Chapter 30), Montgomery GI Bill-Selected Reserve (Chapter 1606), Reserve Education Assistance Program (Chapter 1607), and The Post 9/11 GI Bill.
On February 19th, Sigma Lambda Gamma hosted an event on interacial couples and marriages. The event, which featured guest speakers Dr. Innis and Dr. Zacchilli, covered a variety of topics related to interracial relationships including social stigmas, struggles faced by children of interracial relationships, and the research finding on the subject.
