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The idea behind #FollowFriday is to think of interesting people you already follow and recommend them to others. A great concept that gives people the chance to make valuable new connections based on a shared interests or mutual needs. Tweeps get the opportunity to choose who to follow based on their own specific agenda with the added knowledge that someone they trust recommends them.
Sticks and Stones…
Children who’ve heard the rhyme think that names shouldn’t hurt them and when they feel the emotional pain of name calling it can result in cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognition’s/thoughts. This happens when one idea implies the opposite of another (e.g. name calling shouldn’t hurt me but it I feel sad and hurt). Noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states. This leaves the child in a very vulnerable state and very unlikely to discuss the problem and achieve a suitable resolution and allows the cycle of abuse to continue.
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