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Healthcare Clowns

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  Healthcare clowns—sometimes called medical clowns or clown doctors—are trained performers who work in hospitals to bring humor, lightness, and emotional relief to patients, especially children. Their presence can ease anxiety, reduce stress, and create moments of joy in environments that often feel frightening or overwhelming. By using play, improvisation, and gentle humor, healthcare clowns support not only patients but also families and medical staff, reminding everyone that healing involves both body and spirit. The history of healthcare clowns traces back to the long tradition of using humor as a companion to healing. In ancient Greece, jesters and comedic performers were sometimes present in healing temples, reflecting the belief that laughter had restorative power. Medieval court jesters and travelling performers continued this link between humor and well-being.   The modern concept of the “medical clown” began to take shape in the late 20th century. In the 1980s, Amer...
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Every Picture Tells a Story

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 Tiny Cinderella Somewhere Resource: British Council: Teaching English Lesson Plan https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/upper-intermediate-b2/tiny-cinderella-somewhere Task: Choose a picture from the set 'Every Picture Tells a Story' and write the story behind it, as if you were the photographer.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/albums/72157626599491389/with/5740812611 Post your story in the 'Comments' section below.
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Socially Inclusive Toys

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    Toys are a very important part of childhood. The toys children play with help shape their view of the world. They provide entertainment while fulfilling an educational role as well. Toys help children develop physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally. Toys stimulate creativity and the development of many skills which are necessary in later life such as problem-solving, working with others, sharing, taking turns, and much more. Apart from that, children may find comfort, strength, and support in toys whenever they have a problem. Play with toys helps children to nurture imagination and it gives them a sense of adventure. Children use toys to entertain themselves while simultaneously exploring the world around them, educating themselves, role-playing, and learning to express their emotions. The choice of toys should be based on their age, interests, and stage of development. And even when there are no toys in sight, children will make them out of whatever they h...
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Time Management

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    There is an old proverb 'Time is Money'. Actually, time is even more worth than money, because money spent can be earned again, but time wasted can never be restored again. So, maybe, there is a better common saying than the previous one and it says 'Time and tide waits for none'. Time just flies away. No one can stop it and it never waits for anyone. Time is precious and priceless for everyone. We should all learn to use our time properly to fulfill some purpose. We should value and respect the importance of time in every single moment of our life. Sometimes it takes just one moment of time to make a difference in your life. For good or for bad. Each and every moment of our life brings a lot of opportunities for us, we just have to use our time in the best way we can and take our chances.   Good time management is an essential skill for the 21st century. We live in a busy and bustling world where time is very precious. The lists of things to do are becoming lon...
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Video-Conferencing

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    Video-conferencing is a technology that allows online meetings where two or more people engage in a live audio-visual call without having to move to a single location together. Thus, the participants can see, hear, and talk to each other in real-time, no matter where in the world they might be at that particular moment. In that way, video-conferencing simulates a face-to-face meeting between two or more remote parties as they establish this type of 'live' visual connection in a virtual meeting room. Video-conferencing is typically used for business communication and collaboration, both within and outside an organization. But it can also be used in education, organized webinars and conferences, job interviews, connecting with friends and family, for freelancers and self-employed individuals, for small businesses looking to grow without travel costs, etc. To make video-conferencing possible and get the most out of the experience, you need to set up the necessary hardwa...
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Art Therapy

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    Art Therapy is an expressive therapy rooted in the idea that creative expression can foster a person's physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It can be based either on creating one's own art or viewing someone else's art in order to help people explore their emotions, address unresolved emotional conflicts, develop self-awareness, cope with stress, boost self-esteem, develop interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, etc. The main goal is to express one's self through various mediums of art forms with the single purpose of gaining a better understanding of oneself. As a hybrid field influenced both by the disciplines of art and psychology, art therapy primarily aims to support and help individuals experiencing emotional and psychological challenges to achieve personal well-being and improved levels of function in their everyday life. It is not necessary to have any previous artistic experience or natural artistic talents for successful 'art therapy' tr...
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2020: The Year We Will Never Forget

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  The year 2020 marked the beginning of a new decade according to the Gregorian calendar and billions of people around the world had great hopes for this new start. Unfortunately, the year 2020 turned out to be a challenging year for all of us. Actually, it happened to be a turnaround point in recent human history mainly because of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has brought hundreds of thousands of deaths, lockdowns, economic destruction, the failures of our social and health care systems, governmental mismanagement of the situation,   etc. For many of us, 2020 has been a lost year, in so many ways. On top of an enormous loss of human lives, the pandemic slowed down or even paused many people's progress on their short-term and long-term family and career goals. Thousands of people lost their jobs. Many sporting, cultural and entertainment events were canceled. We had a period of complete lockdown in spring of 2020. Our ordinary lives have changed in so m...
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