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     Being a teenager is not easy, and also being a parent of a teenager is hard and it requires a lot of patience. Once adolescence comes teenagers start to struggle more with their emotions, responsibility of decisions, abuse of digital technologies and social networks, fights, drinking and drugs. It is a complicates stage in life that once we are adults we struggle to remember and often don’t understand. For adults that live or work with teenagers there is also a challenge, but understanding how teenagers think or what makes them behave in a certain way is important. Scientific advances in neuroscience help us understand how adolescents carry out the decision making process. One of the most important factors is that their brain is still developing. The prefrontal cortex which is responsible for impulse regulations, self-control and assess the consequences of a behaviour, is in development during our adolescent years. In addition to individual development, the social wo...

     In cold seasons like autumn and winter, people tend to get something called seasonal depression. Known as seasonal affective disorder, it’s a type of depression that occurs only during specific seasons. It consists of low moods, difficulty getting up in the morning and sleepiness. Days are getting shorter, and we get less amount of sunlight, so it’s important to go outside get some fresh air and sunlight. In the evenings try to do things you enjoy, this may help you improve your mood. Introduce more humour into your life, it may help balance out your negative emotions and even improve sleep quality. Try something new, like finding a hobby. Engaging in a hobby can take your mind of work and give you some energy. It doesn’t matter what hobby you choose, as long as it stretches your skills and helps you get into a state of flow. You should get a decent amount of sleep, so try going to sleep at the same time every day and get at least 8 hours of sleep. These small things...

      Saturday 29th October during Halloween festivities about 153 people were killed due to crowd crush. An estimated about 100,000 people took part in the Saturdays festivities, it was this first Halloween party in three years due to covid. Many alleys in the area were narrow and sloped. It was in one of such narrow street, located near the Hamilton Hotel that so many were killed and injured. President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a state of official national mourning on Sunday. There were 82 reported injured, and about 20 of them are in serious condition in hospitals around the South Korean capital. Witnesses reported seeing crowds surging in different directions and then people losing their footing, causing a domino effect. Most victims were in their teens and 20s, with 97 identified as female and 54 as male. This was the deadliest crashing disaster that happened in South Korean history.  Source:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/29/dozens-of-people-crus...

       The pandemic that has affected us since 2020 changed young people lives horrendously. The lockdown during pandemic made kids stay in homes and look at screens everyday. They couldn’t meet with their friends and have causal human interaction in schools. That caused them to fell lonely and isolated, to fill that emptiness most of them relayed on internet and would spend even more hours in front of the screen. The teenagers and kids feel like they missed these 2 years and couldn’t live them to their fullest. The pandemic had also an impact on kids emotionally and mentally, a lot of them struggled with death of their close ones due to covid. However the lockdown helped some people, and for some it was an amazing experience. They could focus on their selfs and their goals. This pandemic affected and changed all of us in different ways, and the impact of it on peoples mentality is undeniable. The lockdown made my motivation decrease and made me reflect on a lot of a...

    Protests in Iran have been happening for two weeks now. Woman across their country go out to the streets to protest against the obligation to wear hijab. The government ruthlessly tries to silence the protests, they use brutal force against the protesting women. Dozens of them have been killed and arrested.  The protests were sparked by the death  of Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish woman, after her arrest by the police.  While women fight for their rights, most men just sit and watch. Women do not know whether will they come back home from the protest alive or not. The information about the protest have been spread out across the world, and dozen of foreign celebrities tweet and hashtag their support. The women are ready to fight against their government, with the knowledge they can die doing it. Source:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/01/women-are-in-charge-they-are-leading-iran-protests-continue-despite-crackdowns

Thousands of young people across the globe went protesting last Friday in a call for reparations for the countries worst affected by the climate breakdown. Across Asia, Africa and Europe people walked out of their jobs, universities and schools to protest against the climate change. Strikes were planed in about 450 places worldwide. In these recant months we have seen the tragedies that happened, floods in parts of Pakistan, wildfires in North Africa, Europe and North Africa and heatwaves in Britain and India. The biggest strike took place in Berlin with approximately 20000 people calling on their government to set up a found for the climate crisis. The only rich country that has done anything about this crisis is Denmark, who is funding for the problem. The strikes for global climate started in 2018 inspired by Greta Thunberg’s solitary protests outside the Swedish parliament. Source:  https://www.theguardian.com/international