I think this could be a really good idea. In elementary school kids are always getting mad at each other for no reason. Instead of being punished students could have time to deal with their emotions and learn how to control their feelings so it is less likely to happen later. It seems that this has already happened in the school mentioned in the article. One child said "When I get mad at something, I take some deep breaths, keep doing my work, and tune everyone out." It is teaching kids early that they need to chill out before totally blowing up. I would like to know what happens when a child is there a lot, maybe if they are trying to get out of class that could be a problem. Other than that I think this is a positive way for students to deal with their emotions and it may even lead to less kids in detention/RTR in high school.
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After reading this article I was very shocked by how many of these new disorders have been discovered as well as how many people might have them. I also found a few of them very relateable. One in particular was called the phantom ring. The phantom ring, also called ringxiety or fauxcellarm, is when a person thinks their phone is ringing or they have gotten a text when in fact they haven't. In a study of 320 adults 2/3 of them reported experiencing a phantom ringing. For me this does not only happen with my phone. Every once and a while I can hear my mom yelling for me when shes not even home or in the middle of the night. Whenever I try to analyze it to see if it was real or not it just sounds like something I said in my head but heard out loud for some reason. Sometimes it really freaks me out. I have also heard a phantom ring on other peoples phones. Like when my brothers or my moms phone is sitting right next to me I feel like I heard it vibrate like they got a text and when I check it there is no notification.
Many of these disorders seem like they could be easily fixed but in this day and age there are many cases that have gone to the extreme. Today we found out that Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, doesn't even have an IPad in his house. For now it looks like things can only get worse and my only question now is how are we going to deal with the rapid expanding age of technology. Image Source (One of my favorite Disney characters) While I found most both of these articles long, boring, and confusing, They did bring up a good class discussion on how schools could help their students be more active. Lets face it, we are all sitting all the time, and based on the second article its aging us. In school, activities in gym are limited and I am NOT looking forward to taking it. But what if we had more options? What if we had more choice in what we do? There are so many other ways to stay active and keep from aging that is not offered in gym. There's swimming, cycling, hiking, walking, ice/rollerskating, even trampolines. If schools were to offer more of this, I think we would have much happier and healthier students. Taking a day to go outside and walk on trails on a nice day instead of running in a circle inside a gym. Instead of going to see a movie for a field trip, go to a trampoline park. If being active is seen as fun, not hard and boring, kids will love it!! They won't even realize how much good they are doing for themselves.
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