Veronika Winkels

Latest by Veronika Winkels in ITO

• Culture

  October 23, 2019

  Woke Preschoolers: Indoctrinating Our Youngest Children

  'We Are All Equal' suggests a surprising theme. 

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• Culture

  August 29, 2019

  Australian Doctors Are Bullying Parents of Transgender Children

  Medical professionals are bullying parents into conforming to transgender expectations of medical treatment, without the full background information they need.

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• Culture

  June 13, 2019

  Control vs. Controlling: The Difference Parents Need to Understand

  A new study links anxiety in children with controlling parents.

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• Education

  March 28, 2019

  Six Factors That Produce Academically Strong Kids

  A recent study from Australia reveals the factors that enable students to excel. Hint: money isn't one of them!

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• Culture

  March 8, 2019

  Is It Time for International Women’s Day to Lose Its Victimhood Status?

  Women are constantly starring as victims of the male patriarchy, of inequality, of sexual/physical/emotional/abuse.

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• Family

  September 11, 2018

  Can Highly Sensitive People Succeed in Parenting?

  Do you struggle with loud noises? Startle easily? Get immediately overwhelmed by certain environments or find it incredibly difficult to switch off? Chances are you have a High Sensitivity Personality (HSP), or, in scientific terms, you may have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS).

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• Culture

  August 31, 2018

  Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful

  Putting off having children robs them of your youth.

   

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• Culture

  August 17, 2018

  Motherhood: Why Society is Making it the Most Stress-Ridden Career

  Don’t criminalise mothers who make level-headed decisions regarding the welfare of their children, whom they have no intention to “wilfully neglect.”

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• Culture

  March 28, 2018

  Why Men Are Being Told to ‘Be Careful’ About Holding a Door Open for a Woman

  Recently my workplace instigated new measures to ensure a safer, more equitable environment. As part of this exercise, I was asked to rate the acceptability of a man holding a door open for a woman.

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• Culture

  February 9, 2018

  Do Your Child a Favour - Give Them a Mission in Life

  ‘Have a good time’ is not a recipe for happiness.

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• Culture

  November 28, 2017

  Why Sleeping Beauty is Now Facing a Book Ban

  A British mum of a six-year old has asked his school to withdraw the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty from its curriculum.

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• Culture

  October 6, 2017

  Pricing Babies Out of the Market

  ‘If you love your baby'- the marketing pitch new parents should ignore.

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• Culture

  September 29, 2017

  Confessions of a Millennial Mom With a Smartphone Addiction

  What exactly are we teaching our children when we treat our phones as another limb?

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• Culture

  September 27, 2017

  Regret Nothing, Especially Not Motherhood

  Becoming a mother means enriching your identity, not forfeiting it.

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