Category: Self Esteem

5 Ideas For Making Your Landscape Design Seniors Friendly

5 Ideas For Making Your Landscape Design Seniors Friendly

There are those that tend to think of gardening and landscape design are activities that are mainly undertaken by those within an older age group but that is more myth than truth. Yes, there are many seniors who love gardening, but there are also thousands, if not millions of landscapers and gardening enthusiasts across just about every age group.

Whilst that is most certainly a positive, it can lead to one specific problem, and that relates to landscape designs for older people. What we mean by that is the creation of a landscape design where the elements within it make allowances for some of the problems which some older people may encounter.

By problems, we are talking about mobility and safety issues, for example, and ensuring that whether you are a senior and designing your garden for yourself, or you are a landscape designer, designing for an older client, that what you create takes these into account. If you are unsure about what ways you can make your landscape design seniors friendly, here are some ideas you can consider.

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Age Discrimination

Dealing With Mental Illness Caused by Age Discrimination

Although common, age discrimination is never okay. It’s something that occurs much more regularly than it should, both within workplaces and throughout our daily life. Elderly people are often made to feel like they’re worth less than their younger counterparts, and this can lead to major mental health problems.

Your first strategy for dealing with age discrimination should be to speak with your employer and/or HR managers. Make a formal complaint if necessary, and consider seeking legal advice from an employment lawyer if the problems aren’t dealt with.

In saying this, there are numerous strategies along with exercise, meditation, etc., you can use to maintain strong mental health in the face of discrimination. In the rest of this article, we’ve covered a few of these strategies, along with your main rights.

What Are My Rights if I’m a Victim of Age Discrimination

If you feel like you’re a victim of age discrimination, you have numerous rights. If you’re dealing with mental health issues caused by problems at work, you may have even more rights.

For starters, your employee has a responsibility to ensure age discrimination isn’t occurring in the workplace. If and when issues are reported, they need to be dealt with and resolved in a timely manner.

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Speech Therapy

How to Know Your Child Might Require Speech Therapy

Parents have a pretty important job. Not only do they have to provide food, shelter, love, and warmth for their child, but they also have to make sure they have all the tools they need to develop and enjoy the best start to life.

Sometimes, life throws a curveball, and some children require more of a helping hand than a parent can provide, especially when it comes to language and speech. Speech therapy can often be the answer, but how do you know if your child is on the right track or might require speech therapy? Read on to find out.

Does My Child Need to See a Speech Therapist?

There’s a common misconception that an expert in kids’ speech therapy focuses purely on speech. If your child seems to be speaking okay, then do they really need to see a speech therapist?

A speech therapist focuses on more than just speech. They can also help children with a wide range of language and speech development problems, such as the social aspect of language, known as pragmatics, and even eating. Sometimes, a weak lip or jaw can result in speech complications, so a speech therapist can also help with oral motor skills, as well.

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5 Tips to Improve Your Self Esteem

Low self esteem is something that nearly every woman deals with at some time in her life and sometimes throughout the whole of her life. Not only does it cause you to believe lies about yourself, it often prevents you from even trying to improve your life because you don’t believe you deserve it, or are capable of doing it.

In some cases the problem stems from childhood, where unsupportive parents criticised every mistake you made and so you felt you were never good enough to reach their standards. Or it can start when you have a relationship break-up, or fail in an exam, or any other myriad of things that can go wrong in life. The main thing is not to let low self esteem stick around.

Here are 5 tips that can help to improve your self esteem.

  • Meditate about yourself as a person. As you get to know the real you, you will realise that she is a person who deserves to have all the good things in life that you want. Love, finances, employment you are passionate about, friends who support you, good grades in that exam and so on. You will realise that none of these things are – nor should they be – dependent on who you are or how you look. You are a unique person who has something special to offer the world that no one else has.

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