A 2008 article by Nicholas Carr begins with the quote from Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The hero in the film is disconnecting the memory circuits of the computer, HAL, while HAL says, ‘my mind is going’. Carr likens this scene to…
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It is not surprising that sometimes parents feel they would like to wrap their children in cotton wool and hide them away from the world. Daily we hear stories that, if we allow them to, can make us feel constantly anxious. If this anxiety…
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Can children’s books help to build resilience among the young?
A plethora of articles has recently suggested that children and young adults in the 21st Century are not as independent as those in earlier generations. We hear of adults in their late twenties who simply…
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