Talk Week News Today

AN Oxfordshire homebuilder has donated a friendship bench to a Bicester school.

AN Oxfordshire homebuilder has donated a friendship bench to a Bicester school. David Wilson Homes has given the bench to St Edburgs Primary School in a bid to help children talk and open up to each other and staff. The bench is inscribed with the words, ‘We sit, we chat and ask each other questions. We leave as friends, with all good intentions’. Margaret Kunzer, headteacher at St Edburg’s Primary School, said: “On behalf of the pupils and staff at St Edburg’s CE Primary Scho...

Troubled teens...when is the problem behavior just part of the bumpy road of growing up and when is it something more?     Mental health conditions are common among teens and young adults. 50% of all lifetime mental illnesses develop by age 14 and 75% develop by age 24. NAMI, the National Alliance of Mental Illness, reminds us " that  a mental health condition isnt anyones fault ... these conditions develop for complicated reasons that researchers are only just starting to understand....