Thursday, October 9, 2008

3rd Assignment

Hi, this week I must to post a work of art that I like. Well I think that the tattoo is a form of popular art. Anyhow is tattooed seeks to express something, which should be, for it or for others. The skin is a support as any other one and serves to express. The artist who I choose is my tattoo-man Sergio Villagran that does a little time has travelled to Barcelona, España to living and perfecting his technique.
First time that I saw the work of art for him was in 2006, when I decided to have a tattoo. He is very delicate and worried of doing a pretty work, because his work of art was staying the rest of the life in the person who decides to have this type of work of art.
I like this form of art because I see it as a way of expressing what one thinks about colours, forms and different styles. It is tremendously beautiful for my to see a tattooed back, because depending on the tattoo that it sees, I can know a few more to the person who it takes it, know that he or she likes or that they thinks.

Assignment 2. Let's get down to it

Well, this is the summary of the article: Superpowers for parents: becoming your child's emotional coach. Sally Williams wrote it the Saturday 4 October of 2008.
This article comments about a writer, Stephen Briers that wrote the book Superpowers for Parents: The Psychology of Great Parenting and Happy Children. This book is a handy guide to therapy techniques. He says that the parents need to become emotional coaches for their children to produce a new generation of happy adults. For that is most important that they forget the strict routines of childcare.
The idea is the parents become in child psychologists too, because they can help their children and save their for a diagnosable mental health disorder. Rather, psychology is the key to good parenting. If parents understand their children this children understand themselves, they will grow up to be happy. One of the points of being a parent is to try and equip the children for life and give them the skills they need.
Briers' says that is “emotional intelligence": "Children who are emotionally literate, who demonstrate a high capacity for empathy and have social problem-solving skills, tend to be protected from all manner of mental health problems". But this emotional intelligent is not the only key to have a happy future, because the intellectual attainment is very important too. The parents must also expand their child's emotional vocabulary. "Read to your child and discuss how characters might be feeling," says Briers. "Do you think he's feeling scared/cross/happy/upset?"
The purpose of getting your child to be more in touch with their emotions (and those of others) is to help them manage them. Briers takes the view that there is a connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
The book Superpowers for Parents: The Psychology of Great Parenting and Happy Children by Stephen Briers is published by Prentice Hall Life and it cost £9.99

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/04/family.children