My advice for secondary school students (and older) is at EricMacKnight.com, here: http://ericmacknight.com/wordpress/?p=359.
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HundredPushups.com is a great exercise site. They have sister sites for sit-ups, squats, and pull-ups. Each site provides a simple program that takes about 30 minutes a week, and promises that over six weeks you can dramatically improve your fitness. The secret? A graduated sequence of repetitions in five sets. Each sequence is repeated [...] Apologize, fix it, and move on. What should you say if you’re caught doing something wrong? Apologize, first. Then, if you can do anything to repair the damage, do it. All of us make mistakes. The question is, how do we respond to them? If we try to weasel out of trouble, point the [...] A recent news article reports on research that appears to debunk the standard advice to drink lots of water—”8 glasses a day” being the usual formula. Here’s the way Will Dunham, reporting for Reuters news service, opened his story: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The notion that guzzling glasses of water to flood yourself with good [...] One of my Grade 9 students, still learning English, wrote this in an essay: Helping others are also very easy. You can volunteer only one minute to others. For example, pick up rubbish, five seconds. Wait in the elevator while people are coming, five seconds. You can only use a minute to help others. [...] Heart attacks just come out of nowhere, right? They happen to anybody, without warning, right? Wrong. In the vast majority of cases, they are caused by years of bad habits. MyHealthInsight.com reports on a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finding that 90% of the people who suffer heart attacks [...] “The experts” say you should take a short break every 20-30 minutes when doing homework. They also say you should exercise regularly. Teachers say the assignment is due tomorrow and if you don’t hand it in . . . . What to do? Enter the Homework Workout. Set the timer for 20-30 minutes and [...] It’s a matter of respect. In some schools, arriving late to class is viewed seriously, with strict rules, late slips, detentions, and other penalties for those who are tardy too often. In other schools, these issues don’t seem so important. Most students attend 6–8 classes each day, along with occasional assemblies, meetings, rehearsals, and [...] Filed under ‘Forget Everything Your Grandmother Taught You’. According to this new research, sitting up straight is bad for your back! Apparently leaning back at a 135˚ angle is the best posture. On the other hand eating your vegetables, as far as I know, is still a good idea. Lifehacker cites “the goal-setting web site 43 things“, where it appears that the Number 1 goal of their readers is to “Stop procrastinating.” This is a nice idea, but it’s not a useful goal. It’s like saying, “My goal is to stop being lazy”, or “My goal is to do better in English”. Goals [...] |
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