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Iranian Parenting – Add Education to the Social Skills
Posted by adoex in Healthy Education on December 27, 2011
Academic education is valued highly in our Iranian culture. The notion of being someone with university degrees is a yearning that involves many factors such as status, position, opportunities, labels, and power.
The education systems that we Iranians come from is strictly competition and ranked based while there are no focus on the applicability of that knowledge in the real world.
As a clinical counsellor, I see number of young Iranians who have gone through all the steps of getting to the top mountain of education, while they have forgotten the self. In some cases, choice of education has been equal to survival of parental nagging about future, comparisons to other’s children, and the risk for losing family status. In many cases, my young clients are telling me how much they have lost motivation even though they have tried to satisfy family’s expectations of them. Usually,this is the message most Iranian parents give their youth; you study and we pay. In this common scenario, individuals sense of identity, feelings, perceptions, and choice are out of question.
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Why Students Have Better Fitness at Boarding Schools
Posted by adoex in Fitness Healthy, Healthy Education, Healthy Tips on December 27, 2011
Aside from the other benefits of attending military boarding schools like higher graduation and college acceptance rates, boys can also experience greater health and fitness levels than they would if they attended a regular school.
Because the educational philosophies of a traditional public or private school and of a military boarding school differ dramatically, boys who attend the latter do more throughout the day and undergo more disciplined activities. A traditional public or private school usually views the academic progress and social development of its youth as its primary goal. Military prep schools, on the other hand, prime their students for admission into excellent colleges, future careers and leadership roles. With more specialized training and hands-on educational and leadership opportunities, boys attending boarding school can lead healthier, more active and productive lives.
Most military schools believe in shaping character and leadership abilities and consider participation in sports and other physical activities to be a primary way of doing so through discipline, teamwork, team social responsibility and privilege. Aside from the traditional world of secondary sports like baseball or basketball, boys attending military boarding schools may also have access to other activities like swimming, rifle team or lacrosse. Additionally, educators do not overlook the value of exercise such as conditioning and strength training, and regular cardiovascular workouts and weight lifting are built in to most schools’ day-to-day activities.
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