This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Link – Online Threats: How predators lure children, others on the web
Yet another reminder, don’t just leave kids on YouTube or any other platform with no guidance, and no involvement from an adult doing it along with them. “A stranger was able to communicate with the child through YouTube messaging because the child was viewing the site alone on an account that had been set up,…
Sharing – How My Childhood Trauma Affects Seemingly ‘Simple’ Choices
Amanda describes one of the seemingly silly things that she has to do to feel safe in the article: For years, I didn’t understand my need to sit in a booth or corner bench. I felt I needed to make excuses. Now I understand it as just one of the many symptoms of growing up…
Sharing – Stop Thinking All Active and Passive Suicidal Ideation Are the Same
Regardless of where someone you care about is on the spectrum between passive thoughts, and actively having a plan, you have the power to care, and that caring will create a connection, and the connection is a proven way to prevent suicide.
So go ahead and connect. You never know how much it might help.
Link – Connection Is a Core Human Need, But We Are Terrible at It
It’s not so much that social media itself creates disconnect, but rather the way we use it. “Authenticity is required for connection. The internet and social media do not disconnect us because we are glued to our phones at the dinner table but because they increase our ability to be inauthentic. They allow us to…
Link – Why Positive Thinking Can Stop Your Healing from Childhood
This article makes some interesting points, which I’m going to oversimplify with this quote, so please go read the whole thing – “Positive thinking – “The past is the past and I just have to look forward”—only underscores the idea that there’s nothing to be done about the effects the past had on you. That’s…
Sharing – What 85 years of research says is the real key to happiness
If we want a happier world, we need to stop finding reasons to avoid people and find ways to connect with people, even those who are not like us.
