by HomeOfEighT8 | Sep 29, 2012 | Advice, Resources
Efforts to combat school-aged bullying in Canada may be working – for boys. Girls, on the other hand, are experiencing an increase in the amount they are bullied, and finding it more difficult to cope with everyday psychological stressors. Unfortunately, the gap...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Feb 29, 2012 | Parenting, Resources
According to new research released from UBC, babies born to depressed mothers acquire language skills at a slightly different rate than do babies of non-depressed women. Not only that, but the children of women treating their depression with serotonin reuptake...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Health, Parenting, Resources
Every year millions of kids deliberately cut their own skin, desperately looking for relief from overwhelming stress, anxiety and insecurity. Learn what’s behind the self-injury problem and how parents can stop the pain. Caia Pattynama hesitated the first time...
by HomeOfEighT8 | May 4, 2011 | Health, Resources
A difficult childhood reduces life expectancy by 20 years among adults who experienced six or more particular types of abuse or household dysfunction as kids, while those who suffered fewer types of trauma lost fewer years of life, a large-scale epidemiological study...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Feb 24, 2011 | Resources
BRITISH COLUMBIA’S HOMELESS SUFFERED FROM SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES LONG BEFORE THEY LOST THEIR HOMES, A NEW STUDY HAS FOUND. And more than half of Vancouver’s homeless and mentally ill suffer from schizophrenia, according to preliminary data from...
