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Over-Emphasis on Safety Means Kids Are Becoming More Anxious and Less Resilient – Neuroscience News

Lai Cheng April 12, 2023 0 Comments
Parental overprotection has been shown to foster unhealthy coping mechanisms in children. Overprotected children are more likely to both internalise problems (as in anxiety and depression) and external ise them (as in delinquency, defiance or substance abuse). It is natural to want to avoid problems, but avoiding things that bring us discomfort can reinforce a belief that we cannot handle...
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Restrict Alcohol Sale!

admin February 13, 2023 0 Comments
In the wake of the recent 51 methanol poisoning cases in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor (as of 19 September 2018) cases of which 19 people died and 14 others in a critical state, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) is not surprised at all. How did this adulterated alcohol ended up on shelves? It is because we have been urging the authorities over the past four decades to take a tough stand on...
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Break Only One Coconut during Thaipusam, Devotees urged

Lai Cheng February 7, 2023 0 Comments
Devotees celebrating Thaipusam on February 5th are urged to break fewer coconuts.  The money used for breaking coconuts can be channelled to fulfil the various needs of a fraction of the Indian community that still lives below the poverty level. Breaking coconuts during Thaipusam is a cleansing ritual practised by Hindu devotees. It is a symbolic representation of surrendering one’s ego at...
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STOP INDISCRIMINATE INCREASES OF THE PRICE OF VEGETABLES

Lai Cheng February 2, 2023 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living and  Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) to take immediate steps to bring down the price of vegetables which has increased up to 160% in the past one month. Here are the comparative prices for some common vegetables: No Items Old Price (RM) New Price (RM) Percentage 1. Lady’s...
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Children See, Children Do

Lai Cheng October 26, 2022 0 Comments
You are your child’s first and most important teacher. They are watching and learning from you each and every day, whether or not you intend to teach them. Children learn more by observing the behaviour of adults and they try to copy it. This is sometimes called “observational learning”. Wherever they are, whomever they are around, children are observing and learning. “Parents try to...
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DON’T FALL INTO THE BEAUTY TRAP

Lai Cheng August 23, 2022 0 Comments
by Afiqah Sumayyah Women and girls are being given the wrong message about beauty. Beauty today is associated with one’s body shape, weight, height and facial proportion, and relies entirely on marketers’ idea of what it means to be beautiful. This definition of beauty by advertisements and social media has created unhealthy expectations in society today. As a result, billions of people are...
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IS YOUR HANDPHONE DESTROYING YOUR FAMILY LIFE?

Lai Cheng August 8, 2022 0 Comments
Many families today are spending more time “alone together” – they make less eye contact and have less face-to-face communication as they prefer to look at their handphones instead of at one another, even at the dining table. There’s a word to describe this unhealthy practice – phubbing. Phubbing (coined from the words “phone” and “snubbing”) means paying attention to your...
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