Work stress comes home
"When you take your work home with you, the whole family feels the effects - especially your kids. A Canadian study analysed the employment history and pyscho- social work conditions of nearly 30,000 sawmill workers and found that there was a direct correlation between the stress fathers felt on the job and their children's mental health.
The most striking results: 252 of the approximately 20,000 children in the survey whose fathers had stressful jobs attempted or committed suicide from 1985 to 2001...." TIME, December 4, 2006
Too nice for our own good
Contributed by Dr K Chuah
Not all of our patterns have to be "bad and nasty" to be of detriment to ourselves. Often we can play out all of our culturally desirable virtues, to please others, but in this way, we can sabotage our own lives. Professor Gordon Parker, published an article with the title "Too nice for our own good" in the November 2006 issue of "Medical Observer". His leading paragraph was "why being too nice can be a marker of high risk for depression".
Children and Sugar
Why do children want sweet things to eat and drink?... Why are kids not dealing with their lives?
Children and sweet things is a hot topic and achieves high billing in prime time news, magazines, talk back radio and newspapers everywhere. Children craving sweet things and the inability of children to deal with their lives, go hand in hand.
Three of the major ways in which they fail to deal with their lives are: Firstly, children cannot cope with others' expectations, when they are carrying unvoiced losses. People everywhere expect children to be able to turn even their deepest sense of loss into an opportunity for personal growth.
One bad apple spoils the office
This article appeared on the ninemsn site from the Reuters news service and struck a cord with a regular Your Life Patterns attendee.
One "bad apple" can spread negative behaviour like a virus, bringing down office mates or destroying a good team, according to a new study examining conflict in the workplace.
Negative behaviour outweighs positive behaviour, so a bad apple can spoil the whole barrel, but one or two good workers can't "unspoil" it say researchers at the University of Washington in the February issue of Research in Organisational Behaviour.
