SMARTPHONES MAKING YOUR CHILDREN MENTALLY ILL–AS UNSUPERVISED CHILDREN SURF THEIR WAY INTO THE SICKNESS THAT IS THE INTERNET FROM CHAT ROOMS TO PRONOGRAPHY TO BULLYING, SELF-HARMING WEB, ANOREXIA ECT… PARENTS BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR CHILDREN AS THE NEW AGE OF OLD IS NO LONGER APPLICABLE IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS AGE–AS YOUNG ADULTS HOSPITALIZED FOR PSYCHIATRIC NEEDS GROWS 70% FROM EVEN 4 YEARS AGO IN THE UK AS EXPLAINED BY PSYCHOTHERAPISTS JULIE EVANS

…..Official figures confirm the picture she paints, with emergency admissions to child psychiatric wards doubling in four years, and those young adults hospitalised for self-harm up by 70 per cent in a decade.

“Something is clearly happening,” she says, “because I am seeing the evidence in the numbers of depressive, anorexic, cutting children who come to see me. And it always has something to do with the computer, the Internet and the smartphone.”

Issues such as cyber-bullying are, of course, nothing new, and schools now all strive to develop robust policies to tackle them, but Lynn Evans’ target is both more precise and more general. She is pointing a finger of accusation at the smartphones - “pocket rockets” as she calls them – which are now routinely in the hands of over 80 per cent of secondary school age children. Their arrival has been, she notes, a key change since 2010.

“It’s a simplistic view, but I think it is the ubiquity of broadband and smartphones that has changed the pace and the power and the drama of mental illness in young people.”

With a smartphone - as opposed to an earlier generation of “brick” mobiles that could only be used to keep in touch with worried parents - youngsters can now, she says, “access the internet without adult supervision in parks, on street, wherever they are, and then they can go anywhere. So there are difficult chat rooms, self-harming websites, anorexia websites, pornography, and a whole invisible world of dark places. In real life, we travel with our children. When they are connected via their smartphone to the web, they usually travel alone”.

She quotes one website that has come up in conversations with youngsters in the consulting room. “I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise, but it is where men masturbate in real time while children as young as 12 watch them. So parents think their children are upstairs in their bedrooms with their friends having popcorn and no alcohol, yet this is the sort of thing they are watching. And as they watch, they are saying, 'this is what sex is’. It is leaving them really distressed.”

Mums and dads who allow young teenagers to have smartphones – and she wouldn’t say yes until they were 14 - must also take a more active role in policing the use of them, she says, however unpopular it will make them with their offspring.

“I think children should have privacy within their own rooms and in their diaries, and I think they should have the Internet, but I don’t think they should have both, certainly not until they have proved they are completely safe and reliable. So, check their browser history, look at their Facebook, Instagram, and then discuss it with them.

“When they are 15, you don’t, for example, let them go to pub, or stay out in the local park at four in morning, yet they’ll get into much less trouble physically there than they will on their smartphones on the internet. I’m not talking about paedophiles preying on them. I’m talking about anorexia sites and sites where they will be bullied.” ….

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11486167/Are-smartphones-making-our-children-mentally-ill.html

ST PATRICK’S DAY EVEN IN KOREA AS A POPULATION OF ONLY 6.5 MILLION IN IRELAND BUT WITH A 60 MILLION WORLWIDE POPULATION THE HOLIDAY EXPANDS ACROSS THE WORLD–WITH THE LUCK OF THE GREEN

With the number of foreigners in Korea increasing steadily, celebrations of overseas festivals are becoming quite familiar.
On St. Patrick’s Day ― Irish cultural and religious festival ― Koreans and foreigners wore green and drank Guinness together, celebrating the onset of spring.
The globalization of the holiday has found a comfortable niche in Seoul’s expat hangouts of Itaewon and Hongdae, helping outsiders get a taste of what it means to be Irish.
“Irish people like to gather like Koreans, although we don’t drink soju,” said Gerry Brown, an executive at DPR Construction, on March 14 in Itaewon. “We drink Guinness.”
Brown, a Belfast native who moved to America 25 years ago, said the religious holiday has turned into an annual carnival to commemorate St. Patrick, a Romano-British Christian missionary who introduced Catholicism to Ireland in the second half of the fifth century.
“Every Irish celebration involves drinks, music and talking,” he said. “We are very sociable and open with a strong pride in our heritage.”
Brown noted that there are about 6.5 million people in the island of Ireland, but there is about 10 times the population worldwide. Many Irish immigrants settled in the U.S. and U.K. after a devastating famine killed more than a million people in mid-18th century. 

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150322000318

THE SMARTPHONE BATTLE WAGES ACROSS THE WORLD SAMSUNG VS APPLE IN THE 4TH QUARTER OF 2014 WITH APPLE TAKING THE PRICE–2015 MAYBE A DIFFERENT STORY WITH THE RELEASE OF THE GALAXY G6

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150322000332

INSTEAD OF PUSHING FOR EDUCATION AND THE ABILITY TO READ PACKAGING–THE DEMOCRCATS TRY TO GRAB THE HEADLINE THAT THE NEW HFE DETERGENT ARE BAD BAD BAD FOR YOU–FROM THE LIKES OF SENATORS BILL NELSON (D-FL) AND DICK DURBIN (D-IL) WHO CALLS THEM YUMMY–AS CHILDREN OF THE UNEDUCATED GOBBLE UP DETERGENTS FOR CANDY–ONLY A DEMOCRAT WOULD REGULATE EVEN DETERGENT TO JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON OF REGULATION TO HIDE THE FAILED DEMOCRAT POLICY OF THE LEADER POTUS BHO–IT SEEMS THE COST TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY IS JUST NOT HIGH ENOUGH WITH EXISTING LEGISLATION SO THE DEMOCRATS MUST INCREASE THE COST FURTHER FOR YOU THE AMERICANS

“Now that’s pretty attractive,” said Sen. Bill Nelson, eyeing a half dollar-sized packet of liquid laundry detergent on Thursday morning, before stroking the squishy blue orb against his well-tanned jaw.

“And it feels really nice to the touch,” the Florida Democrat cooed. “And it smells good,” he added, coaxing a reporter covering the news conference on liquid detergent package poisoning to pass his prop on to the cameramen. “Pass it on because until you touch it, you don’t realize how attractive it is.”

Nelson’s theatrical performance elicited some laughter during an otherwise somber presentation that featured a mother whose 8-month-old daughter ended up in intensive care after biting into one of the colorful, bite-sized packages of highly concentrated, single-load detergent. Liquid detergent packaging exposure is also linked to the death of a 7-month-old boy in Florida.

“It ought to be common sense that things that are attractive are going to enter into the mouth of an infant,” Nelson said. He also took a quick swipe at one of Democrats’ favorite foes, e-cigarettes, comparing the colorful detergent to liquid vials of nicotine.

In response to recent poisonings, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin has introduced legislation that would give the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority and direction to issue rules requiring safer, child-resistant packaging for liquid detergent products within 18 months of enactment. Six Senate Democrats, including Nelson, are co-sponsoring the bill.

Durbin and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., sponsor of companion legislation, also wrote to the commission, asking them to help. “The problem with that is government moves slowly,” Durbin said. “And while the government is moving slowly, if it does move in the right direction, kids are at risk.”

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