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What’s the difference between an option and a choice, and why is this important?
You have options all over the place. Options don’t really matter that much, but choices do: Am I going to spend time with this person not? If you want to be successful, you don’t have choices. You can’t do whatever you want to do and be good. That’s the hardest thing for millennials and Gen…

Forgetfulness – it is a feature not a bug ( Don’t you feel better now ? )
https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/10396-neuroscience-says-there-s-a-huge-upside-to-being-forgetful If you were stuck remembering everything about everything, like some kind of King Midas of the mind, it would be harder to adapt to our unrelentingly changing world. Persistence of memory “is only useful when it maintains those aspects of experience that are either relatively stable and/or predictive of new experiences,” the authors write….

The Guardian: The voluntary sector does not mean free
Volunteers must be properly supported with supervision, management and training, not to mention other overheads such as insurance and safeguarding checks. All the things that go to make up a professional quality service that our communities deserve. There continues to be a lack of understanding among those in government and service commissioning around the real…

France does not have a legal age of consent.
https://jezebel.com/french-lawyers-for-man-accused-of-sexual-abuse-say-11-y-1822993774 A trial in France is reignited a debate over the fact that the country does not have a legal age of consent. On February 13, a 29-year-old French man went on trial in the suburb of Pontoise for sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. The Associated Press reports that defense lawyers say that the man…
What Makes Some People So Insensitive?
http://bit.ly/2UeEqJQhttp://bit.ly/2UeEqJQ As revealed in the Watson et al., study, the domain of extraversion has the greatest relevance to understanding what leads people to profess their views too assertively. The facets within that domain include assertiveness (dominating and being the center of attention), sociability (enjoying the company of others), positive emotionality (being cheerful and enthusiastic), and…
Te Pou – Working with older people
With the Baby Boomer generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) comes greater diversity in gender identity, relationships and sexuality compared to their parents and grandparents’ generations (Department of Health, 2015; Westwood et al., 2015) . There is also increasing religious and spiritual diversity among older people, due in part to greater religious freedom and…