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[0:00:10] ... steps. Here's what you'll need, a 14-inch paper lantern, 5 party hats, tissue paper, different colors of tissue festooning, a hot glue gun, scissors, string and crepe paper. To create the base of the pinata, we're gonna assemble our paper lantern. For the next step is to take tissue paper and to fold 2 or 3 pieces into about a 6-inch square. We're gonna insert the tissue paper into the lantern to cover the bottom hole. So to decorate the pinata, we're using tissue festooning. It's available in rolls for about $2-3 at (Shindavies?).com. We've gotta have them measured and cut some pieces to size and we're gonna first start by putting a piece around the top of the lantern. Grab your hot glue gun, definitely a job for mom or dad. Don't be afraid to use lots of colors. The pinata suppose to be really fun and festive. Now, we're gonna take our party hats and some extra pieces of tissue festooning and we're gonna glue them around the bottom of each. Okay. Set it aside to dry and continue with the other hats. To finish off the party hats, take a roll of crepe paper and measure a piece about 12 inches long. Give it a cut, fold it in half like this and then cut it right down the center. You're gonna repeat to create 4 more tassels for the end of your party hat. You take each of these tassels, fold it in half at the top and use a dab of hot glue to attach it to the top of each party hat. Hold it in place, let it dry and move and complete the rest of them. Apply hot glue to the tissue festooning then press it into the lantern in place. Okay and stick your hand inside to apply extra pressure ...
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[0:00:51] ... answers that you want to hear. You know, I know drug, no side effects, all look so fantastically promising. We all love magic solutions but we really have to work at the issue of tailoring the ...
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[0:00:53] ... your behavior toward the future. The second is the ability to use visual imagery, often called non verbal working memory. Humans have the ability to hold images in mind about what they are proposing to do ...
[0:02:52] ... functions by adulthood serve as a set of mind tools, a veritable Swiss army knife of mental faculties that allow people to regulate their own behavior over time for their own long term welfare. ...
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[0:00:07] ... Interaction Therapy and it's a way of working with young children with disruptive behavior disorders and their families. So it's a treatment that focuses on improving the parent-child relationship. It teaches parent skills to increase appropriate behaviors in their kids like following directions and decreasing inappropriate behaviors like whining or hitting. It involves live coaching of parents so that we can observe exactly what happens between them and their ...
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[0:00:26] ... get on the wrong bus and not be able to tell the bus driver that they got on the wrong bus. We often get asked, how shy is too shy and when should you worry about a child. When kids are actually not able to participate in things that you know they wanna do, that's too shy. So a kid who likes drawing but won't do it at a birthday party, a child who likes gymnastics but can't participate in it on the playground at school, the kid who's like a deer in ...
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[0:00:05] ... Now we as a population in the United States know a lot more about mental illness than we did 50 years ago. There's high school psychology classes. A great percentage of people can recognize the symptoms of ADHD, depression, schizophrenia. However, and here's the big paradox, compared to the 50s and 60s, a higher proportion of the American population is afraid of people with mental illness and believes that people with mental illnesses are dangerous and we should keep our distance ...
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[0:00:04] ... With all psychiatric illnesses, medication and the medication treatment for any individual patient is something which has to be reassessed constantly in an ongoing kind of way. This is particularly so ...
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[0:00:36] ... math or athletics. It's the same with depression, anxiety or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So while it's not a parent's fault, it's their responsibility to make sure that their kid gets identified, diagnosed and the right treatment. Here's the good news, parents can make this a lot better and it's parent's attention to the signs and symptoms in getting early identification and early intervention that can make a world of difference for a teenager or for a child who suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression or any psychiatric disorder. ...
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[0:00:09] ... autism? You may hope that there would be some kind of good diagnostic test, someone could take a picture of your child's brain or do a study of your child's blood and make a diagnosis. We're not there yet. It's defined as a syndrome, it's defined by symptoms that cluster together. The first one is impaired communication. People don't use language in the same ways as they might to communicate well with other people. Second one is impaired social interactions. People have trouble reading social cues. They still may attach, they still may want to be around other people but they don't ...
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