Health & Wellbeing in Integrated Learning Communities

Growing up as a child of the seventies, I have to admit I have a few early memories that probably age me somewhat. I recall at at early age being drawn to one great read, more commonly found at my Nans house but the other place was at the doctors surgery waiting room table.

The ‘Reader’s Digest’ had two great sections, probably the only ones digestable by a 10 year old. One was ‘It pays to enrich your word power’ and the other was ‘Laughter is the best medicine!’

‘It pays to enrich your word power’ was a quiz testing you on different meanings of words. I thought about how language has evolved when I came across the great website Urban Dictionary a couple of weeks ago. This is a great resource bringing new words and phrases to life. It also has a handy ‘word of the day’ (warning  – some can be a bit rude) RSS feed and can email you a new word everyday, how fantastic! I must admit I really enjoy opening my inbox everyday and am eager to see a new word for the day. Here’s my favourite 3 new words sent to me over the last couple of weeks.

‘moneymoon’
The time after your purchase of a good or service and before ‘buyer’s remorse’ happens.
The moneymoon is over, I realize now that buying that boat was a waste of money.

’slacktivism’

The act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem.

Signing an email petition to stop rampant crime is slacktivism. Want to really make your community safer? Get off your ass and start a neighborhood watch!

And finally..

‘twitterpated’

1)to be completely enamored with someone/something.
2) the flighty exciting feeling you get when you think about/see the object of your affection.
3) romantically excited (i.e.: aroused)
4) the ever increasing acceleration of heartbeat and body temperature as a result of being engulfed amidst the exhilaration and joy of being/having a romantic entity in someone’s life.

When he smiled at her, the rush of warm, fuzzy, excited sensations that filled her made her realize she was completely twitterpated with this man.

This last one brings a new sense of meaning to ‘Twitter’! Moneymoon, just reminds me so much of the In The Wild event at SLF last year when Carol Craig talked about what truly makes us happy..short term retail therapy isn’t it..it’s the wider sense of belonging to something bigger that makes us have a sense of wellbeing. And, Slactivism, I’m sure we all know someone guilty of that!

The second part of this post is dedicated to laughter the best medicine, I was at a great networking event in Argyll and Bute last week, celebrating the work of schools in the area dedicated to putting health and the heart of learning, the key outcome amongst all the others was to ‘have fun’. There was plenty of laughs all round.

Here’s a little something I’ve found on the internet to remind you how important it is to have a laugh along the way. Enjoy!

Pic – Coulhill Primary School, Healthy Highland Week 2007

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