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A letter to students: 7 ways to hack exam stress and get ROCKING! |
Waiting for exam results can indeed be a highly anxiety provoking experience for most students as well as their parents and the day the exam results are out, there is both joy and sorrow in equal measure. |
Students as well as their families experience a range of emotions, depending on the results. While most people feel the disappointment arises mainly from the grades they get, a large amount of sadness arises from the way the parents react to their child’s result. |
In case your child has not scored well, talk to him/her regarding their worries, acknowledge that you can understand that they are upset. Venting is a good emotional release. Avoid saying things like there’s no need to be upset, etc. It is also alright to share your disappointment with your child about his/her performa... |
While it is good to acknowledge the disappointment, it is also essential to comfort your child and tell them that you will help him/her find a solution. |
It is natural for someone to look back and assess where one went wrong and what led to poor results, if at all, but in the process, don’t end up putting the blame on the child. Bringing up old stories and dishing out advice will not help. Ask him/her how you can help and support him/her. Look ahead, while learning from... |
Once the results are out and you have had a discussion with your child, allow him/her some space to get over it by him/herself. Talking repeatedly about the same thing may make the child feel nagged and add to the frustration they are already facing. |
It is natural for any child post their poor result to have feelings of self-doubt and poor self-worth. At this time, it is essential for you to shower love on your child and provide him/her the comfort that irrespective of what their results are they are still very special to you and that your love for your child is no... |
A major reason why students feel a high level of disappointment is growing competition. Thus, at this point avoid comparing your child to his/her peers. |
While some amount of sadness and low feelings are natural after a poor exam result, one should be slightly watchful of any changes in the child’s behavior and thought patterns. In case you feel the child is getting increasingly negative and even after you taking all the steps is still feeling low, consider taking the c... |
PRAGUE, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman may tap economist and investment strategist Ales Michl, who advises Prime Minister Andrej Babis, to fill one of two seats coming free on the central bank board this year, daily Lidove Noviny reported on Tuesday. |
The newspaper, citing two sources, said Michl, 40, could replace Vice-Governor Mojmir Hampl, whose final term at the bank finishes at the end of November along with Vice-Governor Vladimir Tomsik. |
The president’s spokesman declined to comment on the report, while Michl was not immediately available. He had declined earlier to comment for the newspaper. |
The report mentioned other names which have been circulated in the past as possible candidates for the central bank board, including the current chief of the bank’s monetary section which prepares the quarterly economic outlook for the board, Tomas Holub. |
Besides him, former board member Jan Frait, who now heads the financial stability department, and his deputy, Libor Holub, were also mentioned. |
Michl worked for almost a decade until 2015 as an investment strategist at Raiffeisenbank, the Czech unit of Austrian bank Raiffeisen. He later went on to found an investment group that uses algorithms to invest into U.S. shares and bonds. |
Tomsik and Hampl are the last board members appointed by the previous president, Vaclav Klaus, who had favoured more eurosceptic economists than Zeman. |
The central bank advises the government on the country’s eventual adoption of the common euro currency that it committed to when joining the European Union in 2004. The state currently does not have any target date. |
Governor Jiri Rusnok, who is an economic adviser to Zeman, has sat on the board since 2014 and led it since 2016. |
The central bank quit an intervention regime keeping the crown weak in 2017 after using it for almost four years, part of efforts to revive inflation after the country went through two recessions following the global financial crisis a decade ago. |
Since letting the crown float free again, the bank has been the most aggressive in the EU in normalising policy by raising its main interest rate in six steps to 1.50 percent, including hikes at its past three meetings. |
A session down the pub is never going to be the healthiest of things you can do. But modern life is tough, and far be it for me to tell you to permanently strike trips to the pub off your diary. |
What I can do, however, is humbly suggest some food related things you can do to offer your body a buffer from some of the negative effects of a night on the tiles. They won't completely negate the effects of alcohol – and you should, of course, drink responsibly anyway. But they will do your body some small favours to... |
Drinking on an empty stomach is a bad idea. You know it, I know it, pretty much anyone who's ever had a 9-5 job knows it. And yet we all barrel merrily down the pub straight after work on a Friday with nothing more than a cup of tea and a sneaky Snickers in our stomachs. |
Alcohol defuses through the walls of the stomach very quickly. The less is in there, the faster it will enter your blood stream. From a social point of view, you’ll feel its effects much quicker. From a physiological point of view, the faster it is absorbed into your body, the bigger impact it has upon your liver, dige... |
The best choice of food before a night out is something that has a natural fat content, which helps slow down the rate at which food leaves the stomach. The longer food stays in your stomach, the slower the alcohol gets absorbed into your bloodstream. |
This doesn't mean lard burgers. I'm talking foods like salmon and avocados. Combine the two in a wrap with some mayonnaise and you have a good on-the-go pre-pub meal that will help you avoid succumbing too drastically to the effects of alcohol. |
A little snack while you are out can do you a world of favours. Sadly, pubs don't always offer the widest variety of options. Of the three pub classics – crisps, nuts, pork scratchings – I'd say always go for the nuts. They deliver a selection of B vitamins, which get rapidly depleted when you drink. |
Olives, if available, are also an excellent, healthy option. |
This is usually the time for utter dietary carnage, when a hell-for-leather need for greasy stodge kicks in, kicking out any thought for your own dietary well being. |
As hard as it may be, your best bet is to forget greasy chips and high street pizza (the most expensive cheese on toast you'll ever eat). They will only weigh you down the next morning and serve to expand your waistline in the long run. |
The good news is that there are some good fast-food options available. |
Believe it or not, one of the very best comes from the kebab shop. Now, I wouldn't personally touch a doner kebab with a 10ft barge pole. The meat is processed and has a horrific salt content. |
However, the humble chicken kebab can be heaven sent. Throw away the refined white pitta bread and you've basically got grilled chicken salad. The chicken will give your liver a good supply of amino acids that are used to metabolise and remove alcohol, while the salad will supply a timely vitamin boost. |
If lamb is more your thing, go for a shish kebab. The meat will be better than the stuff on the rotating skewer. |
I know it's tempting to hit the hay as soon as you get through the front door, but two quick things can really help make the difference the next morning. |
Firstly, a multivitamin will help your body recover from the effects of the alcohol. Secondly, try to drink a pint of water with a pinch of salt. Alcohol switches off an antidiuretic hormone, which is why you find you start peeing a lot during a night out. The constant trips to the bathroom deplete your body's level of... |
Economix | Luxury, or Necessity? |
What products can’t you live without? |
Chances are, your answer to that question in 1973 would be very different from your answer today. |
In any case, the change in consumer spending habits — or at the very least, how Americans view these spending habits — has prompted lively debates about how to calculate the “cost of living” over time. Some academics say that, judging by the household comforts Americans can afford, families today are better off than th... |
The full Pew Research Center report is available here. |
Interesting how so many items that make women’s lives easier (micro-waves, dishwashers) are considered luxuries. I don’t know how a working mother could run a home without a washing machine or microwave. Home computers can be considered necessities since many jobs require familiarity with programs, but employers do not... |
Modern life means women don’t have to beat clothes on a rock or slaughter chickens for dinner. These are not luxuries–they are tools to improve productivity. |
Air conditioning can perhaps be explained by the shift of population toward warmer areas of the country. |
Other than that, to me all the other stuff is/would be nice, but it’s not a necessity. And I live in an area of the country where it’s 90F+ for at least 5 months out of the year. A/C would be nice, but I spend most of the hot part of my day at work anyway (which has A/C–it’s a necessity there!) and when I’m home and it... |
Clothes dryer – yes (actually clothes processor that washes and dries in 1 machine & cots around $5 -8 a month to run – far cheaper than a laundrymat. |
Cable or satellite TV – no and a dozen times no. It is 98% mindless dreck and I dumped it nearly 20 years ago. |
Home air conditioning – no. That is why windows open and fans were made. |
Car air conditioning – no. Windows go down and up. |
Microwave – yes sort of. Useful for heating things quickly. |
My great-grandmother had live-in staff to do the cooking and cleaning, and a gardner; and, of course did not work. |
My grandmother had a housekeeper who came everyday (and loaded that 1930s dishwasher) and did not work except for 2-4 hours a week in the family business to go over the accounting. |
I do the shopping, laundry, cooking (from scratch – no prepared foods here), dog-bathing, cleaning, errand-running, and watch the water from the beach – despite having 3 times the college degrees of my parents and a higher income even when adjusted for inflation. |
I would happily take any of the comforts of my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. |
Wow, strangely enough, with the exception of my laptop, I don’t have any of the things listed in either chart. And I seem to get by just fine…. |
Puhleez..the only real “necessities” are food, clothing and shelter. And even then, homeless people manage to survive. This survey shows pretty much explains how the US became over-indebted; we spent (and continue to spend) too much money on stuff we really don’t need. |
I moved to Europe four years ago. I have never had air-conditioning nor a clothes dryer nor a TV. I just got a dishwasher last week. I lived without a washer for 2 years. I would *love* to have all the above, but none are “necessities”. |
this strikes me as very sloppy science. if they are going to quantify consumer goods such as appliences/electronics as necessity or luxury they need to quantify the impact of the cost of the items on the households/individuals concerned. |
which does not seem to have been done here. |
to make this a meaningful argument (which I suspect can still be done), the data need to be normailzed against median income. |
For example, a flat pannel TV, which cost say $5,000 in 1998 when the average american household median income was $38K is considerably more of a luxury than a a flat pannel TV in 2007 which cost closer to $1,000, when average american household income was $50K. |
Interesting. I’m 23, and have lived in France for about two years. I’d consider a computer and clothes washer (and possibly a cell phone) the only necessities out of all of those, provided you live close to public transit. |
Many television programs can be watched on the computer, although I’m not much of a television person anyway. Most people here don’t have clothes dryers and certainly not air conditioning, and the microwave in my apartment takes up too much counter space, so it’s been packed away in a closet for a few months. I haven’t... |
My mother thought I was crazy this summer when I came back to the States for two months and refused to machine dry my clothes. It’s pretty liberating to not feel a need for all this “stuff”. Better for you, your wallet, and the environment to do without! |
Old People + Televisions = Republicans. |
It’s all so clear now. |
PS: “Home Computer” is a giveaway too. Just like “home telephone”. |
Here in the modern world, we actually have laptops (or netbooks) and cell phones, not “home computers” or landlines. |
With a rise in single parent and both-parents-working households, I think one would expect labor saving items like a dishwasher, washer – dryer, computer to be rated a necessity. With respect to a computer- look at what you can do with today’s computer vs the ones available 20 years ago. I have replaced our newspaper w... |
These surveys will become a little less clear and more difficult as devices converge. My cellphone is now a computer, so I have less need for my computer as long as I have my cellphone. My tv and cable service are no longer essential as long as I have my laptop and internet service. Etc., etc., etc. |
Everything surveyed (except perhaps the car, since commuting to work may be quite the endeavor without it) is a luxury good. Sure, it would decrease one’s quality of life without it, but “necessity” means without which one could not live. Literally. This usually pertains to adequate food, sanitary water supplies, shelt... |
The low overall number for “necessity” for TV – about 65 percent(?) – compared to those for car, etc., is great news — a sign that modern people haven’t lost all sense of proportion. |
However, as anyone who has spent time in Germany (or Europe at large?) knows, a clothes dryer is not at all a necessity. You can get used to life without one and it is not a problem at all. |
Clothes dryers use massive amounts of energy for what they accomplish. In a hypothetical world in which Americans cared about energy efficiency, abandoning clothes dryers would be a very easy and painless way of making cuts. |
I Never owned a tv (never got into it). No car (live in a city with good public transit). No washer/dryer. No microwave. I have a computer and rarely use my cellphone. I wash dishes, pots, pans and utensils BY HAND! Life is good! Too much wasteful crap out there. |
While television may in fact, be a luxury, we must recognize the impact that the other items listed have on efficiency. As any student of economics would know, opportunity cost of time is certainly worth considering when making an economic decision. The time saved through the use of a microwave, laundry machine, or dis... |
I guess the undercurrent is supposed to be that Americans are greedy and spoiled. |
The thing is, necessities really can become more “necessary” over time as society slowly adjusts to those items being available and withdraws the support systems for the people who don’t have them. Yes, a cellphone is a necessity now–good luck getting any job when the potential employer can’t reach you during business ... |
Times do change. I don’t think many people in 1900 considered a bathtub a necessity (my grandmother still remembers the day her father brought one home), but it certainly is now. Once-a-week baths don’t fly at work anymore. The TV box will become obsolete soon too. |
For my money, a clothes dryer is a ridiculous waste of energy. Now, tell that to all the condo associations and neighborhood groups that have prohibited clotheslines in many parts of the country. |
I run a good part of my work life from laptop (with wireless) and cellphone. Not just recreational at all. I do not bother with a landline. |
Home and car AC – not a necessity IF you live in an area in which it is SAFE to open your windows. I am a female living (and driving) alone in some rough places. I keep the windows closed and doors locked. |
Microwave – of course it’s necessary; microwaves are absurdly cheap now and much less expensive to use than, say, an electric range. And that also saves a lot of need for the dishwasher! I don’t have and never have had a dishwasher; who cooks full meals these days anyway? If i had kids, they could bloomin’ well pitch i... |
TV – you’ve got to be kidding. Huge waste of time. We’ll all have enough time to stare mindlessly at a screen when we’re stuck in a nursing home. |
Ann P, I’m delighted for you that you come of several generations of the gentry. My great-grandmother picked cotton and raised 17 children on cornmeal mush and sowbelly. My grandmother and my mother worked full time in the cotton mill from the age of 12 and worked a farm and raised a garden and cleaned and scrubbed and... |
Yes, it is true that many people regaurd “luxuries” of the past as “necessities” of today. This is due, in large part, to women leaving the home to work outside of it (i.e., labor force participation rate has risen steadily since 1960s). |
These modern necessities enable households to be two income households. This report is very one-sided: all younger generation folks are whiney, spoiled brats. Hardly the case! |
garden hand and power tools, and greenhouse heaters. What do all of us need to survive? Food, shelter, clothes, a power source, and each other. Viva! |
Perhaps if economists have problems figuring out standard of living questions, they should do more than drool over polls. They should go out and ask people why. |
At the end of the second world war, only 10 percent of women with children under six held jobs , Now, according to the Department of Labor survey for 2006, 56 percent of women in that category hold full time jobs. Seventy-one percent of American women with children under age 18 work. |
This of course means that the whole household economy has been re-arranged. Now, if, as some conservative economists claim, the median family household is just getting better and better, why are two earners per household now in clear majority? After all, it should be the reverse – those poor 50s women, living in the di... |
Somehow, though, although conservative economists like to equate greater wealth among workers with laziness – see economix’s Casey Mulligan for that explanation of unemployment – seemingly the wealthier they are, the more they have to work. |
The other explanation would be that the wealthy have expropriated a grossly disproportionate share of our national productivity while facilitating and industrial policy to ship manufacturing jobs overseas and create huge stresses on labor’s bargaining power. Of course, that would be a reality based explanation. Far bet... |
I don’t have a car and get around just fine, but I live in a city with fairly decent public transit, so that helps a ton. Two years ago, I wouldn’t have thought I could go two days with out my car. |
But I think lifestyle has a huge impact on what we determine “necessary.” I have two cats, so AC is a necessity because of them… I live on the third floor, and Chicago summers can be just as brutal as it’s winters. My kitties would over heat and die with out it! And I don’t have a car, so car AC isn’t a must, but the b... |
Cell phone, yes, but it’s my only phone… I haven’t had a land line since 2006, and even then I never used it, even though it was in my name. |
And a computer is a must!!!! I wouldn’t be able to do homework or communicate or read the paper! How can anyone live with out a computer anymore! |
The cheapest of microwaves can be had for §29.99. Is it a luxury if it is dirt cheap and virtually lasts forever? I mean – what’s the opportunity cost of $29.99? |
Popping open a window would probably kill people during those times. |
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