But here are a few reminders. If you want to find problems, they exist in abundance, but they'll grind you down if they become your main focus. If you believe that, positive thinking makes absolute sense. Stay away from the staffroom mafia, who are always complaining and seem to put out a contract on kids. I like to get in a few pre-emptive words to shut him up early.
Enthusiastic teachers do more by mistake than miserable dull picky ones do by design.
The key to the human potential movement is movement. Many, many of our problems with overweight, stress, sickness, tiredness and need for medication would disappear if we were physically active on a regular basis. A recent article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology found that exercise was at least as effective as psycho-therapy in dealing with stress, and, of course, a whole lot cheaper and more pleasant. In the past week researchers at Duke University, Dr James Blumenthal et al. published their findings in the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine. After 4 months all three groups showed significant signs of lower depression rates.