Playing Makes Our Children Become Fine Adults

by Herminne Tonita - Dr. Julie Coulton, psychologist at the East Sussex University from England, focuses her research on the extraordinary function of the play in the physical and spiritual development of children and Martti Bergson from the University of Helsinki shows that playing outside, in the open air, contributes to a better development of the brain. Thus parents must encourage their ...

Date added: 03 March '07

The Role of Physical Education in the Development of Children

by Herminne Tonita - Schools in Europe devote 1 to 3 hours per week to physical education. Doctors warn that this is much too little. Statistics clearly demonstrate that societies in which physical education gets less time and attention in the school curriculum suffer from more spinal defects and flat foot, and are generally less healthy and more disease prone. Still, lots of pupils, especiall ...

Date added: 08 March '07

Do we always agree with technological developments?

by Cristina Nuta - Someone once described the age we live in as that of a vanishing world, one in which the familiar is constantly disappearing for ever and technological change is often difficult to cope with. So it should come as no surprise to most of us to hear that yet another part of everyday life is about to go for ever. This happens as a result of man’s need to change and to invent thi ...

Date added: 31 July '07