INSTAGRAM, MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE USUAL LIES
Last month consulting an online magazine for work, a title caught my attention: Instagram, teenagers and mental health (https://www.filodiritto.com/instagram-adolescenti-e-health-mental). I read the opening: “Instagram is harmful to the mental health of young people, especially girls”. I jump. But wh…
TEACHING MEANS NEVER STOP STUDYING
The pandemic has brought the school back on the spot, highlighting problems that have existed for a long time: chicken coop classes, spaces that are not always adequate, devices that are essential for innovative teaching. These problems have been accompanied by numerous criticisms of a teaching focus…
I’M FINE “BUT” I DON’T ASK FOR HELP
In June, in the article “I feel terrible but I don’t ask for help” I addressed the cultural and psychological aspects that hinder a boy, aware of being ill, in approaching a psychotherapy. Today, I would like to talk about a much thornier subject instead, which concerns many young people who, althoug…
WPP, THE HORROR ON STAGE
During the summer I saw the exhibition of the WPP Award, one of the most prestigious photo journalistic awards in the world. Undoubtedly the best known to the public and photographers considered a great showcase. Thousands of professionals participate every year and the jury works for weeks to evalua…
“PROFESSOR, ARE YOU HAPPY? WE ARE ALL TOGETHER AGAIN!”
This is the way my students from the 5th grade welcome me on their first day of school. Their eyes smile and their dreamy gaze captures me in a whirlwind of emotions. I look at them with curiosity. What is happening? Why do they not have the usual annoyed and almost tragic attitude of “the first days…
PARENTS AT THE START!!!
This long summer is over but something new begins for so many young people and not only. The first day of school is approaching!!!! First day of kindergarten, first day of elementary school, middle school, high school. Who of us doesn’t remember the awaiting days on the first day of school? The emoti…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
I am aware that I am entering an insidious and very delicate path, but as I always hope to do in the articles of this blog, I will try to propose some considerations hoping to encourage human and professional reflections and comparisons.
I am convinced that anyone who chooses to work with children…
SEPTEMBER ARRIVED
September arrived, it seemed far away last month, and yet it is here… after a strange busy summer, spent facing things, abandoning things, separating myself from things I had already separated, waiting for things and finding and re-finding things.
And in this silent moment, moving with difficult…
PRAISE OF TENDERNESS
In these days we have seen dozens and dozens of dramatic images before our eyes showing the situation in Afghanistan. Among the many, the one that struck me the most is a sequence of photographs in which is depicted a couple, a man and a woman. The woman, who in the first photo appears beautiful and…