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June 2007

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  Study: College students more narcissistic
By David Crary, AP National Writer | February 27, 2007
 

NEW YORK --Today's college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society. To read more...

 
  Study VI: Childhood Overindulgence and Life Goals 

By participating in this 30 minute study, you will help us understand how childhood overindulgence relates to adult personality traits such as personal aspirations and attitudes about life. Participants will be informed of our research findings upon completion of this study through this newsletter and on the our research webpage. Click on this link to enter the study.

 

 Overindulgence Cartoons

You know the concept of overindulgence has gone mainstream when it is featured in cartoons. For a laugh click on the link below. Click here to read cartoons.

 
  Train with Jean Illsley Clarke this Summer

Leadership Training Workshop with Jean Illsley Clarke, July 16-20, 2007. A special opportunity for ECFE and other parent educators who want to...Recharge their enthusiasm; update their skills; and explore the new How Much is Enough parenting model. Click here for PDF brochure.

 

 No PlayStation, kids. Get ready to be social outcasts
by Bruce Stockler

My nine-year-old daughter Hannah asks: “Can we get a PlayStation3 for our birthday?” I patiently explain how Mummy and Daddy do not believe in gaming consoles.
The kids have cable TV, the internet, PC games, Tama-gotchis and other gear and can barely sit still and read for 20 minutes.

“How can you not believe in something that millions of people own?” asks Asher, 12, our resident logician and mathematician. “Do you mean you don’t believe the PlayStation exists, like you don’t believe in the tooth fairy? Or do you mean you want your children to be practically the only ones in the whole town who don’t own a gaming console and can’t join in probably 50 per cent of the normal conversations that happen with other, normal kids with normal mums and dads?” To read more..

Thanks to Research Assistant Chelsae Armao who contributed by finding stories to include in this edition of the newsletter.

 

 

 

 

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