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Research and Studies Showing the Need for This Information

As well as the above personal feedback there is also a huge need for this information highlighted in statistics and the press. The following statistics show that there is a real hunger for personal development skills for kids.

Today’s kids experience much more anxiety then kids in 1950’s. Studies have proven this anxiety leads to depression, increasing drug and alcohol use and serious implications for physical health such asthma, ulcers and heart disease. Studies have shown that an increase in anxiety can lead to an increase in violent crime

Research shows that many students demand too much from themselves in exam situations. For example, a student who usually gets about 60% for maths suddenly demands 75% of himself. Studies have shown that the gender gap in maths and science between girls and boys (boys are getting higher grades) is about attitudes and confidence not performance or achievement.

In US in 2000 one in five kids aged 12-20 was a binge drinker. Underage binge drinkers were 7 times more likely to use illicit drugs than kids of same age who did not binge drink 1 out of 4 kids is bullied. Bullying is increasingly viewed as an important contributor to youth violence, including homicide and suicide. In a recent study, 77% of the students said they had been bullied. And 14% of those who were bullied said they experienced severe (bad) reactions to the abuse. 1 out of 5 kids admits to being a bully, or doing some "bullying." 8% of students miss 1 day of class per month for fear of bullies.

More youth violence occurs on school grounds as opposed to on the way to school. Playground statistics - Every 7 minutes a child is bullied. Adult intervention - 4%. Peer intervention - 11%. No intervention - 85%. 32% of parents fear for their child’s physical safety when the child is at school.

"Being bullied is not just an unpleasant rite of passage through childhood," said Duane Alexander, M.D., director of The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). "It's a public health problem that merits attention. People who were bullied as children are more likely to suffer from depression and low self esteem, well into adulthood, and the bullies themselves are more likely to engage in criminal behaviour later in life."

One study recently found that 70 percent of sixth-grade girls surveyed said that they first became concerned about their weight between the ages of 9 and 11. That same study found that 30-55% of girls started dieting when they were in middle school. Research from Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders Inc. (ANRED) suggests that about 1 percent of female adolescents have anorexia. That means that about 1 out of every 100 females between the ages of 10 and 20 are not eating enough and should be seeing a doctor.