Why So Many NLP ‘Experts’ DON’T Walk Their Talk!

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Technician or Practitioner/Trainer?

Since NLP is easy to learn, anyone can become a NLP technician. A NLP technician is someone who has little or no interest in being of service to others or helping people excel, but is more interested in using NLP to manipulate people or to generate business with it. These could be people who have just read about NLP, or have done some formal NLP training, or they may even be certified NLP Trainers themselves. Believe it or not, there are NLP Trainers who care more about their back pocket than they do about their students. They teach or use NLP incongruently, or primarily as a way to generate income.

Don’t worry, NLP technicians are easy to identify, here’s what to look out for: » Read more: Why So Many NLP ‘Experts’ DON’T Walk Their Talk!

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Smacking A Child – Good or Bad Psychology?

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The ‘Old school – New school’ divide on smacking will be heightened by the research findings of a joint project conducted by the McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto. The study was made of two groups of West African children of five to six in age, one group from one private school and one from another. 63 youngsters were involved. And did smacking cause more psychological problems than it cured? Yes. And here’s why.

The six year olds did much better if they avoided corporal punishment, scoring ‘significantly higher’, than those who were smacked. It is even claimed that a harshly punitive environment could have downside effects on young childrens’ verbal intelligence and their executive functioning ability.

To compare effectively, one school used corporal punishment for a range of misdemeanours, whereas the other used verbal warnings and time-outs. Significant too was that all the children came from the same home background, same area and their parents actually were in favour of corporal punishment. » Read more: Smacking A Child – Good or Bad Psychology?

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