“Very, very happy. » Yes, Thomas is “really very happy”. The young man from Puy-en-Velay almost stutters. He’s been bubbling with emotions since the phone call he received a few days ago. At the end of the line, a voice from Ethiopia spoke these few words: “I found your biological mother. She wants to talk […]
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Parents facing their children’s addiction: “understanding is not accepting”
The cross : How to explain that a young person switches to addiction? Muriel Lascaux: There is no typical profile or criteria indicating that such a family will be confronted with addictive behavior. There are, however, risk factors, including genetics, and family history. There are also individual factors: impulsiveness, anxiety, difficulty making friends… Some personalities […]
War in Ukraine: Parents’ methods of helping their children learn
► “We exchange from what our son brings home from school” Beatrice, counselor in the prevention of psychosocial risks, mother of a 10-year-old boy “At home, we don’t watch television and we don’t listen to the radio because I find the live information very anxiety-provoking. When I was a kid, my grandfather listened to RTL […]
“It is not the algorithms that need to be regulated, but their design practices”
The cross : Are we heading towards a world where algorithms have taken the place of chance and human subjectivity? Aurelie Jean: Not exactly. Algorithms intervene in order to achieve more precision, to perform tasks that humans cannot do or do much less well, or to automate certain painful tasks or tasks with very low […]
These teenage girls who make their own jewelry inspired by designers
The concept of “do-it-yourself” (“do it yourself”), a trend observed in recent years among adults, also appeals to teens, who are embarking on the design of handmade jewelry. Maurine, 14, makes pearl necklaces and bracelets for herself and her friends: “I go to Pinterest to find inspiration and then I do my own thing”, she […]
Parents who are sometimes very invested in their children’s studies
When you are a parent, it is for life, as we say. “When you are a parent of a student, you remain so beyond the child’s 18 years old”, prolongs Gilles Demarquet, president of Apel. His association, essential in Catholic establishments of the first and second degree, is also gradually investing the field of higher […]
Ode to extraordinary children (and their parents)
She has that elusive gaze that calls out to you. Light hair illuminates her beautiful face steeped in mystery. On his mother’s lap, the child begins to fidget. We are seated side by side. This meeting of parents must seem endless to him. Myself, I poke my nose under my mask. My concentration falters. So […]
In 2020, women raising their children alone remain poorer
What are families like in 2020? To answer this question, just look at the data published this Monday, September 13 by INSEE on the eve of the Family Conference, the first of its kind for more than ten years, announced for October 5 and 6. The least that can be said is that families present […]
They continue to see their friends on video
There was a time, not so long ago, when parents were very worried about the number of hours their children spent in front of their screens. A few months before the word ” confinement “ be officially pronounced, in March 2020, the release of the book The Factory of the digital jerk researcher Michel Desmurget […]
They kept their childhood friends
► “Memories in common” Maud, 33, architect “When I was little, I lived in a dead end where children used to play together. It was there that my friendship was forged with a neighbor who was two years older than me. We have always been close and when I moved to Brittany with my parents, […]