Youth Mental Health & COVID-19
Youth Mental Health & COVID-19
Year 3, Week 38 (140 total reports)
04.01.2023-10.01.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Losing their tween years and the increased impact on girls. Embracing the benefits of suffering in helping others. Lots of articles and graphics to assist you this week in parenting, teaching or working with children/youth.
This Week’s Top Links
10.01.2023
Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media
The tween years are developmentally critical (there are two articles about that in this week’s feed). Girls are starting puberty earlier, but their tween years are shortening. That is a problem resulting in an increased mental health risk for female adulthood. There is much we can do to mitigate the demands of our culture on young adolescents and we need to be conscious of how to assist them through conversations, modeling (co-regulation) and relationships.
09.01.2023
Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom
https://esheninger.blogspot.com/2023/01/self-regulation-in-personalized.html
This principal’s article about self-regulation is a great training aid for adults; teachers, foster care staff and increased parental understanding.
08.01.2023
2 Self-Defeating Attitudes to Leave Behind
With the start of a New Year, there are old habits we need to analyze and abandon. That includes mental habits as well as physical ones. This article highlights two self-defeating behaviors without which all of us could be healthier. I would add that we can rarely “break” a habit, we need instead to think about “substituting” them. Initially, substituting habits takes a lot of practice (just think of the years it took to develop that negative habit). Generally, it takes ninety days to completely substitute a behavior until the new behavior (or thought process) becomes habitual itself. Be kind to yourself--and patient.
07.01.2023
9 Benefits of Volunteering That Will Inspire You to Sign Up Today
https://www.rd.com/article/benefits-of-volunteering/
Where a person has volunteered should be one of the most consistent questions we ask of people running for office. Barack Obama was a community organizer, his Republican counterparts used that against him in debates, but it was in the impoverished communities in his hometown of Chicago that formed his commitment to education and healthcare. This article is great for those of us to have needed—or still need—to recruit volunteers to our outreaches.
06.01.2023
The Crucial Work of Facing Suffering
I saw an article the other day about “curing old age.” It made me laugh because I had never thought of aging as a disease, I’ve always considered it a natural part of living. In biblical traditions, there is a set of false testaments called the “Gnostic Gospels.” The belief that aging is a disease is what I call one of our contemporary “Noxious Gospels (poisonous falsehoods).” Another one would be the central point of this article, that suffering is to be avoided. The author wisely points out that we cannot help other people until we have faced suffering ourselves. Not that suffering is something to seek (martyrdom), but it is something to address. Suffering is NOT an option, our response to it can either be healthy or damaging.
05.01.2023
Winnie the Pooh: The Theory That Every Character Represents a Mental Illness, Explained
https://movieweb.com/winnie-the-pooh-characters-mental-illness/
I had not thought about this theory until I read this article, but once I read the article, everything fell into place. Now, it will be difficult NOT to see certain characteristics as examples of the lovable A.A. Milne characters.
04.01.2023
Kids driving you crazy? Try these science-backed anger management tips for parents
It’s cyclical, we lose perspective and see the world in a more hostile manner. When that happens, we are less able to regulate our emotional responses. There are always times when our lack of self-regulation will make us more susceptible to being “driven crazy” and not just by our children; for me it can be traffic in the city, noisy neighbors and street sounds. Whatever it is for you… these anger management tips will help.
This Week’s Links
10.01.2023
Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media
What Tweens Need to Learn Before Becoming Teens
https://www.scarymommy.com/parenting/tween-life-skills-before-teenage-years
Empathy the most important leadership skill
How the brain transfers fear memories to long-term storage
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/brain-long-term-fear-memory/
ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-and-treating-adhd-and-odd-6541410
7 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude in Your Everyday Life
https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-practice-gratitude/
Study Finds There Are 4 Subtypes of Long COVID
https://www.prevention.com/health/a42433806/long-covid-subtypes-study/
09.01.2023
Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom
https://esheninger.blogspot.com/2023/01/self-regulation-in-personalized.html
How does grief affect the brain?
https://www.livescience.com/how-does-grief-affect-the-brain
7 Physically Calming Things You Can Do To Soothe a Stressed-Out Mind
https://www.wellandgood.com/physical-ways-relieve-stress/
Ditch your toxic relationships — healthy friendships actually help you live longer and heal wounds faster. Here’s why.
https://www.insider.com/good-relationships-help-you-live-longer-reduce-physical-pain-2023-1
'Kraken' subvariant shows COVID continuing to evolve, vaccine equity needed: experts
08.01.2023
2 Self-Defeating Attitudes to Leave Behind
I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful kids—here's the 'surprising' parenting style they all used
Oregon church puts out the most hilarious and inclusive messages
6 Child Behavioral Problems Parents Should Never, Ever Ignore
https://www.yourtango.com/family/child-behavioral-problems-parents-never-ever-ignore
07.01.2023
9 Benefits of Volunteering That Will Inspire You to Sign Up Today
https://www.rd.com/article/benefits-of-volunteering/
10 things that made us smile this week
https://www.upworthy.com/10-things-that-made-us-smile-this-week-1-6-23
‘It altered my entire worldview’: leading authors pick eight nonfiction books to change your mind
7 Ways Strong Moms Can Raise Daughters Who Love Themselves
https://www.yourtango.com/family/strong-moms-confident-daughters
5 Sad, Underlying Beliefs You May Have If You Were Raised By A Toxic Parent
https://www.yourtango.com/family/sad-underlying-beliefs-you-may-have-raised-toxic-parents
06.01.2023
The Crucial Work of Facing Suffering
Pandemic Catch Up: What Will it Take for Left-Behind Students to Learn to Read?
6 Tips to Be More Adventurous in Everyday Life
https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-be-more-adventurous/
Can Stress Cause Lightheadedness?
https://www.verywellmind.com/can-stress-cause-lightheadedness-6951448
How to take control of your self-narrative for a better, happier life
5 Questions That Will Make You Emotionally Strong
https://www.yourtango.com/self/questions-will-make-you-emotionally-strong
Florida School District Bans Book About Real-Life Same-Sex Penguin Couple: Report
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tango-makes-three-banned-florida-book_n_63b7508fe4b0cbfd55e7d2ec
Gov. Ron DeSantis Administration Demands Universities Report Programs On Diversity, CRT
https://newsone.com/4477303/ron-desantis-critical-race-theory/
Physical Activity May Cut Depressive Symptoms in Children, Teens
Comedian David Cross lampoons anti-maskers
https://boingboing.net/2023/01/05/comedian-david-cross-lampoons-anti-maskers.html
COVID’s New Year’s Resolution Is to Infect Us All Again (and Again)
05.01.2023
Winnie the Pooh: The Theory That Every Character Represents a Mental Illness, Explained
https://movieweb.com/winnie-the-pooh-characters-mental-illness/
What are the benefits of reading books? A lot, actually
https://www.today.com/life/inspiration/benefits-of-reading-rcna61735
How To Stop Overthinking And Make Better, Faster Decisions
https://hive.com/blog/how-to-stop-overthinking/
How Science Says Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the Rule of Awkward Conversations to Make a Great First Impression
04.01.2023
Kids driving you crazy? Try these science-backed anger management tips for parents
How to know if your inner voice is a liar