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Sharing – Families can support kids’ mental health whether they’re learning remotely or at school – here’s how
Regardless of what your kids school might look like right now, I think this article provides some interesting tips on how you can do the things you can control to support kids mental health. Or anyone’s mental health really. “It may feel like a stark choice between mental or physical health. But as a family…
Link – Why kids are so good at keeping abuse a secret
One of the easiest ways to dismiss a survivor is to openly wonder “why it took so long to come forward”, without any understanding that coming forward is the exception, not the norm. Many, many victims never come forward at all, and most who do come forward do so well after the fact. That’s normal, not immediately rushing to tell someone.
Third Places Also Need to Be Safe
I think this is interesting. Of course, access to a park or walkable neighborhoods would lead to better mental health outcomes. At least that is what we’d expect. But for some young people, when that park or neighborhood isn’t safe, it might turn into yet another place to be hyperalert and anxious about.
Sharing – Seven Early Experiences with Potential Benefits in Adulthood
I have to admit, before seeing this article, I didn’t know much about Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE) either, let alone that someone was studying their effect on adulthood, and possibly on counteracting the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). This study seems to suggest that these things can help: Below are the seven items on…
Sharing – Music Is Just as Powerful at Improving Mental Health as Exercise, Review Suggests
I have noticed that playing music around our house definitely raises my spirits in a similar way as exercise, so it’s nice to know that researchers are looking into some other options for helping our mental health above and beyond “get more exercise”.
What I like more though, is a research article that contains this common-sense reminder about how we are all different:
