Study reveals stressed out 7-11 year-olds

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I agree brother Woodrow, I would like to reproduce a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the Headmaster of a school in which his son was studying.


"He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just and are not true. But teach him if you can, the wonder of books.. but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside.

In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fall than to cheat.....

Teach to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him he is wrong.Teach him to be gentle with gentlepeople and tough with the tough.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone getting on the bandwagon...

Teach him to listen to all men; but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad... Teach him there is no shame in tears.

Teach him to scoff at cynics and to be beware of too much sweetness.. Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to highest bidders, but never to put a price on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob.. and stand and fight if thinks he is right.

Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient.. Let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have faith in humankind.

This is a big order, but see what you can do."


See how different such persons were :D
 
ahsan28 said:
I agree brother Woodrow, I would like to reproduce a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the Headmaster of a school in which his son was studying.


"He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just and are not true. But teach him if you can, the wonder of books.. but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside.

In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fall than to cheat.....

Teach to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him he is wrong.Teach him to be gentle with gentlepeople and tough with the tough.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone getting on the bandwagon...

Teach him to listen to all men; but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad... Teach him there is no shame in tears.

Teach him to scoff at cynics and to be beware of too much sweetness.. Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to highest bidders, but never to put a price on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob.. and stand and fight if thinks he is right.

Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient.. Let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have faith in humankind.

This is a big order, but see what you can do."


See how different such persons were :D
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WOW! I could never say anything better. That is how I want my son to be raised. That is the kind of man I pray that he becomes.
 
ahsan28 said:
I agree brother Woodrow, I would like to reproduce a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the Headmaster of a school in which his son was studying.


"He will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just and are not true. But teach him if you can, the wonder of books.. but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside.

In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fall than to cheat.....

Teach to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him he is wrong.Teach him to be gentle with gentlepeople and tough with the tough.

Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone getting on the bandwagon...

Teach him to listen to all men; but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad... Teach him there is no shame in tears.

Teach him to scoff at cynics and to be beware of too much sweetness.. Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to highest bidders, but never to put a price on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob.. and stand and fight if thinks he is right.

Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient.. Let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will have faith in humankind.

This is a big order, but see what you can do."


See how different such persons were :D
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That is excellent advice. I especially like the last paragraph. It shows the importance of stress, if it is the proper stress and applied with the intent of pushing the child and not to satisfy the whims of parents or teachers. Stress is not the problem, improper application of it is.
 
hilariously funny, seems someone has shot themselves in the foot! but mouth and ego are still in hyperdrive.

BTW. though lincoln was an extraordinary man, I would have thought a Muslim would have been able to find a Muslim hero to quote from!

someone needs to learn to differentiate between distress and stress. Lincoln letter suggests to me that he wants the boy to be stressed but not distressed

oh BTW distress is a vey good thing too as it serves as an alarm bell to tell us that someone is need of help.
 
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For 28 years, Abraham Lincoln experienced one failure after another. In 1833 he had a nervous breakdown. When he ran for speaker in 1838 he was defeated. In 1848 he lost re-nomination to Congress and was rejected for land officer in 1849. These failures didn't stop him from battling on. In 1854 he was defeated for the Senate. Two years later he lost the nomination for vice-president and was again defeated for the Senate in 1858. Yet, despite it all, in 1860 he was elected president and went down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

Success isn't the absence of failure.
 
Another major factor (referring back to the original article from the Guardian) is that we live in an age of consumerism, more than ever now, and that puts huge pressure on children. We are controlled by the advertisers. The latest trainers, designer schoolbag, Playstations, X-Boxes, iPods etc etc... I left school twelve years ago now which in the grand scheme of things is really not that long ago, but the difference in attitude to materiel things is massive.

Children are under so much pressure to look and dress a certain way - to fit in with their peers, no wonder they're stressed out.

I'm studying Sociology at the moment and we spent over two hours analysing and discecting this at college....there's a lot more to this news story than meets the eye....
 
i think i been under stress since the day i was born lolzz...but i guess i learned 2 manage itt...no1 used 2 believe it wen i say im so stressed out cz i never got any pimples...but i dun think pimples have 2 do anything with it cz im alwaysz stressed out lolz
 

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