When I started writing this article, many ideas on possible topics invaded me. I thought, for example, of writing about resistance and inherited ability to eliminate the stress hormone (cortisol) from the body. I also contemplated addressing the ruthless ...
“Creating the School of Tomorrow in the Present”
My name is Mariangela Vergara Ruiz and I am a second grade teacher. I´ve accomplished one of my most desired dreams: to be a teacher of children between 7 and 8 years of age. With the full conviction that it would be a challenge for me but with the full c ...
A Young Colombian Living in South Korea
I started at Altamira when i was just 4 years old. Back then i was just a child who didn't have much responsibilities apart from doing my homework, going to school every morning, and living happily along with my family; I usually only worried about the co ...
“No one said that being a father is an easy task, just as there is no manual to educate today’s children.”
My name is María Teresa Vergara Ruiz, better known as "Ms. Tere. " I am a psychologist graduated from the University of La Sabana in Bogotá. Since 2016 I have had the opportunity to be a teacher of English and Mathematics at the Altamira Interna ...
Science Behind Living.
In a world where the desire to savor the joy of immediate gratification prevails, where the depersonalization of instant communication and the filters of social networks are the affective mediators of human relationships, human beings still have to make ...
¿How To prevent your adolescent son from being interested in drugs and alcohol?
If your children are young, you may think, why do I need to read this article? Well, you are wrong and should be working on prevention since childhood. Since the age of 7, children start forging their character, personality and values system. And consider ...
Poor Son- Rich Son.
We live in an era governed by material things, social status, little time for the family, everything revolving around an exaggerated consumerism culture. Social and economic order encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts ...