How Important are our Children?
IYear 3, Week 10 (112 total reports)
COVID-19 & Youth Mental Health
01.06.2022-07.06.2022
This Week’s Top Links
07.06.2022
America is pushing teachers to the brink
https://apple.news/ALKnZqmkUS0GHKKT7v1FpuQ
We continue to ask more from our teachers and yet their pay has been stagnant for years. Many districts are advertising jobs and no one is responding. This in the wake of many teachers leaving because of incivility at school board meetings, being asked to carry guns, politicized curriculum and the stress of COVID on staff, students and parents. If we’re going to ask so much of our teachers we’re going to need to pay them. There are many existing areas where this money could be found, but it would take a re-distribution of priorities in America. The common question this week is “how important are our children?”
06.06.2022
A Parenting Coach Shares the Most Powerful Practice She Teaches
https://theeverymom.com/parenting-coach-wellness-advice/
The “Pause Button.” We all need one and we all need make a habit of pushing it and increasing its effectiveness in our lives. Our own Pause Button is important for all of our relationships; at work and at home.
05.06.2022
Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows
https://apple.news/A6BlGfUXQSWScA9nT_2U1PQ
It is a fallacy to believe that owning a gun will make your household safer. The opposite is actually true, increasing the presence of guns (at school, work, church or home) increases the likelihood of their use—with often deadly results. Don’t let the NRA and its minions fool you. Guns DO kill people.
04.06.2022
10 Things People Don't Realize You Do Because You're Emotionally Wounded
https://www.yourtango.com/self/things-people-dont-realize-do-emotionally-wounded
One of the most difficult aspects of mental illness or just being emotionally wounded is that it doesn’t show up on the outside—on our physical bodies—until the stress has eaten at us for months or even years. Perhaps the list in this article will help you understand some of the behaviors you have internalized, lead to a conversation starter with those in your relationship circle or help you better recognize these behaviors in others.
03.06.2022
New research suggests there is a complicated relationship between narcissism and mask wearing
Narcissism, like many other mental health issues, does not simply come in a one-size-fits-all package, therefore it is hard to just call all anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers narcissists. By definition, narcissists are self-absorbed, but there are grandiose narcissists and vulnerable narcissists. It is the grandiose narcissist that tends to flout rules that involve public behavior.
02.06.2022
Parents who raise 'confident, smart and empathetic' children do these 5 things when their kids misbehave: Parenting expert
This is a simple, but pragmatic article about increasing the emotional intelligence of children. It prioritizes five steps that parents (or staff) can take to help children and tweens when they have their inevitable behavioral lapses. If your child—or a child you’re working with—misbehaves, review this article for steps you can take to improve their behavior over the long term.
01.06.2022
Why did the doctor ask if we have a gun in the house at my toddler’s checkup? Because this is America
https://apple.news/A7ep_Q-rBRdmJrSOTXpUe7Q
It is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics that pediatricians ask parents about guns. As the author, Arwa Mahdawi, states that this “makes sense in a country where there are more guns than people and where people get accidentally shot by toddlers on a weekly basis. This is the US – where guns are the leading cause of death for children age one and older…”
It doesn’t seem hyperbolic at all to say that in America, the right to own a gun is more important to many than the right of a child to live.
This Week’s Links
07.06.2022
America is pushing teachers to the brink
https://apple.news/ALKnZqmkUS0GHKKT7v1FpuQ
What It Means To Lead With Alignment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2022/06/07/what-it-means-to-lead-with-alignment/
How to Compare COVID Deaths for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People
https://apple.news/AjXoGDIm0R-iJsH2APAgrvw
06.06.2022
A Parenting Coach Shares the Most Powerful Practice She Teaches
https://theeverymom.com/parenting-coach-wellness-advice/
Nasal vaccines could be key to finally defeating Covid-19 — here’s why
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/nasal-covid-19-vaccines
Physical activity and long COVID symptoms
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220606/Physical-activity-and-long-COVID-symptoms.aspx
05.06.2022
Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows
https://apple.news/A6BlGfUXQSWScA9nT_2U1PQ
‘Pure Cruelty’: Florida Is Stepping Up Its War on Trans People
https://apple.news/AsD4kr_6JSKacmMAygQufzw
I Want to Help My Trans Child Thrive
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/06/support-transgender-child-advice.html?via=rss_flipboard
Why education has become a political battlefield in America
https://www.dw.com/en/why-education-has-become-a-political-battlefield-in-america/a-62017306
Addressing Childhood Anxiety as Early as Kindergarten Could Reduce Its Harmful Impacts - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/childhood-anxiety-kindergarten-20743/
Experts advise to keep COVID precautions in mind ahead of summer
Long COVID is a new disability affecting millions of workers—and a ‘moment of essential innovation’ for employers, one lawyer contends
04.06.2022
10 Things People Don't Realize You Do Because You're Emotionally Wounded
https://www.yourtango.com/self/things-people-dont-realize-do-emotionally-wounded
How to Stay Calm When Your Kids Are Driving You Crazy
https://www.fatherly.com/health/calm-parents-all-share-these-3-traits
Why This COVID Wave Feels Different
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/06/omicron-variant-seasonal-infections/661181/
The ‘When Will It End?’ Wave
https://apple.news/AQ7qb39cURCiXPivPS652cA
Omicron Infection Timeline: When Symptoms Start and How Long They Last
https://www.health.com/news/omicron-timeline
Long COVID symptoms: What we know—and don’t know—about the mysterious illness that could affect up to 80% of COVID survivors
https://fortune.com/2022/06/04/100-most-common-long-covid-symptoms/
03.06.2022
New research suggests there is a complicated relationship between narcissism and mask wearing
129 Pictures That Tell A Story
https://www.boredpanda.com/one-picture-story/
How Teens Navigate School During COVID-19
What Is Codependency? – Forbes Health
https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-codependency/
The Comeback we didn’t expect: Inside the stop-and-start school year of 2021-22
Let's Use the Work Lessons of the Pandemic to Help New Parents
https://time.com/6183698/parental-leave-work-susan-wojcicki/
How the pandemic impacted introverts and extroverts differently
What doctors wish patients knew about COVID-19 testing
I Am a Doctor and Wish Everyone Knew This About COVID Now
https://www.eatthis.com/news-doctors-wish-everyone-knew-this-covid/
02.06.2022
Parents who raise 'confident, smart and empathetic' children do these 5 things when their kids misbehave: Parenting expert
Exposure to interparental conflict predicts insecure attachment and imbalanced attitudes in future relationships
FDA accepts Pfizer application for COVID vaccine in kids under 5, clearing way for June timeline
Save Your Money: The 10 Best Places to Download Free Ebooks and Audiobooks
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/download-free-ebooks-audiobooks-online
01.06.2022
Why did the doctor ask if we have a gun in the house at my toddler’s checkup? Because this is America
https://apple.news/A7ep_Q-rBRdmJrSOTXpUe7Q
How to Recognize High-Functioning Anxiety in Children
10 Must-Read June Children’s Book Releases
https://bookriot.com/june-childrens-book-releases/
COVID can leave you infectious after five or even 10 days
https://apple.news/AgMGZSxf7Sh2IZXlkBgzyxQ
Dr. Fauci Has Warned of These COVID Symptoms
https://apple.news/AecKHlkciQFm7O4cezPzqEw
Omicron is outrunning the vaccines designed to fight it
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/01/coronavirus-vaccine-omicron-variants
image shot at Ara Ha