Mental Health
Back to School Series: Helping Children Relax After School
Is back-to-school stressing your kid out? Here are ways to help your child decompress after long schooldays. It’s every parent’s dream to hear how well behaved and cooperative their child is at school during the day. That same parent might be surprised, then, to find their child hyperactive, resistant, and cranky once they get home.…
Read MoreHow do Fidget Toys Work?
We’ve written about sensory toys before on this blog, but today we’re focusing on fidget toys and their usefulness. Fidget toys are devices that provide a repetitive action that a user can engage in with little to no thought. Fidget devices are often visually pleasing and may also offer tactile or auditory stimulation, such as…
Read MoreHelping Your Child’s Social Anxiety with Role Play
Today we continue our Mental Health Awareness Month series by talking about a common anxiety disorder in children. Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) affects between 7% and 12% of the U.S. population. Increasingly, it’s impacting young people. Global research has found that nearly 1 in 3 respondents aged 16–29 years meet the threshold criteria for SAD. …
Read MoreArts, Crafts, and Mental Health
“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso Childhood mental health outcomes have been a concern of experts for several years now. The C.D.C. estimates that one in six children between the ages of two and eight has a mental or behavioral disorder. Mental health rates are even worse for pre-teens and…
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