Almost two years ago I’ve posted a blog entry named “Toddlers and children beauty pageants – Risk factors for severe psychological turmoils” in order to simply express my opinion as a psychologist regarding the phenomenon of child beauty pageants. I must say I was and still am impressed by your reactions, comments, private messages, re-posts, [...]
Archive for the ‘Lifestyle’ Category
July 6th, 2011
Run (in) your life … and allow yourself to stumble
Now how perfect would it be if everything and everybody would happen and react in the best manner ever! Maybe a bit too perfect… and a bit too unnatural… and not that human afterall. We all want to succeed in everything we do, make the best choices we can make and live our lives in [...]
April 21st, 2011
Catherine Zeta-Jones: ‘There is No Need to Suffer Silently’
Tags: Article source: omg.yahoo.com; Author: Josh Duboff After the surprise revelation last week that Catherine Zeta-Jones had received treatment for bipolar II disorder, the actress appears on the cover of People magazine this week and discusses her struggle. “This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am one of them,” she told [...]
January 26th, 2011
10 (Psychological) Reasons why we like Dexter Morgan
Photo©Christian Weber/Showtime There must be (logical) reasons why the world fell in love with the character of Dexter Morgan as portrayed in Showtime’s series “Dexter”. How do we come to empathize with a blood-spatter analyst by day turned serial killer by night? I’ve selected 10 reasons why I believe Dexter’s such a sweetheart in our [...]
September 7th, 2009
Toddlers and children beauty pageants – Risk factors for severe psychological turmoils
Photo source: The Bronte Soul Make-up, hair extensions, teased hairstyles, clouds of hairspray, flippers (fake teeth), sophisticated costumes, screaming crowds (mostly mothers), weird postures, twitched face expressions, tiaras, trophies, money and more or less talent are the ingredients for the usual children beauty pageants, along with exercised smiles and hysterical crying and outbursts. The children [...]
