Youth Mental Health & COVID-19
Youth Mental Health & COVID-19
Year 3, Week 34 (136 total reports)
07.12.2022-13.12.2022
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Confidence and Courage: We won’t always be confident, but we can always choose to be courageous. Inside this and future blogs I am beginning to add posters that inspire me throughout the week.
This Week’s Top Links
13.12.2022
Cultivating the Four Kinds of Creativity
https://hbr.org/2023/01/cultivating-the-four-kinds-of-creativity
When you’re trying to build a business or establish a personal brand, the key is always creativity. The question behind every decision needs to be, “How does this decision help promote our uniqueness?” Creativity will be ever-increasing in importance as humans seek to differentiate themselves from AI and a world where bots take mundanity away from human labor. If what you do is repetitive, it will become robotic. I found this article interesting from a perspective on not only enhancing creativity, but also examining types of creativity.
12.12.2022
4 Ways to Respond Effectively to Our Intense Emotions
A person who cannot control intense emotions will become their slave. None of us are born with the ability to handle intense emotions and we need adults who will both model regulation and co-regulate with us (calmly sit with us while work through intense emotions and finally name them).
11.12.2022
10 Ways To Immediately Be Less Judgmental Of People You Disagree With
https://www.yourtango.com/self/ways-immediately-less-judgmental-people-disagree-with
It is far too easy to let disagreement become judgment and examples of that are rampant. When we become judgmental we lose the ability to rationally solve disagreements. To look at opinions instead of draw lines of battle. One of the first signs of behaving in a closed-minded, judgmental manner, is name-calling. In our fear, we want people to fit stereotypes for people that we think threaten our inner balance. We overcompensate by judging and finding ways to categorize as less-than-human.
10.12.2022
The Gift of Influence: Creating Life-Changing and Lasting Impact in Your Everyday Interactions
Influence is far more important than success. Though success is often monetized, influence sees money and power as optional. No one can be successful without being influential, but many people throughout history have chosen to be influential without being successful. This is a very important distinction in our education and development of children.
09.12.2022
Choose Courage Over Confidence
https://hbr.org/2022/12/choose-courage-over-confidence
I really liked this article and would enCOURAGE you to share it with others while using it as a springboard for meaningful conversation. This is a great conversation to have with your tween and teen. We won’t always be confident, but we can always choose to be courageous.
08.12.2022
Subtle Ways to Check on Students' Well-Being
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/subtle-ways-to-check-on-students-well-being/2022/12
Checking in on young people’s emotions often requires a great deal of subtlety. Being too blunt can send a young person into hiding (emotional or physical), especially if that bluntness is done in public. This article does a good job at teaching how to check in with young people while not frightening them away.
07.12.2022
We all can reach a “flow state.” Here’s how.
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/reach-a-flow-state/
Flow is an amazing state often associated with peak creativity and total engagement. Flow can occur in almost any creative endeavor from sports and arts to relationships and conversations. Flow is like happiness in that it is not achieved and permanent. There are habits to reach flow and, when practiced, flow becomes easier to reach and longer to sustain.
This Week’s Links
13.12.2022
Cultivating the Four Kinds of Creativity
https://hbr.org/2023/01/cultivating-the-four-kinds-of-creativity
What To Do When Your Child Is A Late Talker
https://www.fatherly.com/health/michelle-macroy-higgins-late-talkers
Why Am I So Insecure? What Causes Insecurity + 7 Ways To Overcome It
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/why-am-i-so-insecure
Cultivating the Four Kinds of Creativity
https://hbr.org/2023/01/cultivating-the-four-kinds-of-creativity
What To Do When Your Child Is A Late Talker
https://www.fatherly.com/health/michelle-macroy-higgins-late-talkers
6 essential tips for helping your kids develop empathy, according to child psychologists
https://www.insider.com/guides/parenting/how-to-teach-empathy-to-kids
Kindness Can Have Unexpectedly Positive Consequences
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kindness-can-have-unexpectedly-positive-consequences/
Three Key Elements To Be A Servant Leader
12.12.2022
4 Ways to Respond Effectively to Our Intense Emotions
12 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Want to Reinvent Your Life in 2023
10 Things The Most Resilient People Do Every Day
https://www.yourtango.com/self/things-most-resilient-people-do-every-day
This Christmas whiskey ad about trans acceptance is warming hearts around the world
A Psychologist Teaches Us How To Rise Above The Holiday Family Drama
11.12.2022
10 Ways To Immediately Be Less Judgmental Of People You Disagree With
https://www.yourtango.com/self/ways-immediately-less-judgmental-people-disagree-with
Worries Teens Have About Themselves
Teens in crisis
https://theweek.com/health-and-wellness/1019123/teens-in-crisis
Local health officers and health care leaders recommend wearing masks indoors
10.12.2022
The Gift of Influence: Creating Life-Changing and Lasting Impact in Your Everyday Interactions
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/life-hard-philosophy-can-help-us-find-way-bookbite/37836/
09.12.2022
Choose Courage Over Confidence
https://hbr.org/2022/12/choose-courage-over-confidence
Creating the Safe and Calm Classroom
What Are Behavioral Disorders in Children?
Turn A Stubborn Toddler Into A Helper With These Magic Words
https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/make-stubborn-toddler
GOP Congresswoman sobs as she pleads for colleagues to vote against LGBTQ+ rights
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/gop-congresswoman-sobs-pleads-colleagues-vote-lgbtq-rights/
How to Calm Down From a Panic Attack
https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/balance/how-to-calm-down-from-a-panic-attack/
5 signs your child is struggling with their mental health
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/signs-your-child-is-struggling-mental-health
The 43 Funniest Chemistry Jokes for Kids
https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/funny-chemistry-jokes-for-kids
FDA clears updated COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5
https://apnews.com/4e23cb1532f66bbb62318a461203095b
08.12.2022
Subtle Ways to Check on Students' Well-Being
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/subtle-ways-to-check-on-students-well-being/2022/12
A Training Hub for Teaching Students in Poverty
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/a-training-hub
Failure is a good teacher, explained
Want to Be Happier? Use the 3-Minute Method to Dramatically Increase Feelings of Contentment, Satisfaction, and Well-Being
Measure your level of job burnout with this simple visual scale created by a behavioral scholar
07.12.2022
We all can reach a “flow state.” Here’s how.
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/reach-a-flow-state/
How to Get Your Brain To Shut Up: 8 Ways to Quiet Your Mind
https://www.fatherly.com/life/how-to-quiet-your-mind
3 categories and 8 subcategories of management styles
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/categories-and-subcategories-of-management-styles
How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-12-05-how-gaming-creates-opportunities-for-learning-that-endures
Understanding ADHD and Trauma
https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-adhd-and-trauma-6831287
Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/thinking-101-reason-better-live-better-bookbite/37591/