Boredom in the Year of Quarantine
Many parents have heard plenty of boredom-based lamentations from their kids, even before the age of coronavirus. But COVID-19 and the resulting quarantines have brought boredom into our lives on a whole new level. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the child is four or fourteen, being trapped at home and without regular interaction with peers leads to fairly dramatic childhood ennui.
In comparison to the devastating losses we are experiencing in the world right now, boredom is not a terribly urgent issue. But it can bring distress to children and their families. Understanding the roots of boredom can offer parents strat...
Source: World of Psychology - June 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jason Kahn, PhD Tags: Children and Teens Parenting Boredom coronavirus COVID-19 home school pandemic school age children social distancing Source Type: blogs
Helping Your Children Cope with Societal Trauma
Children should be safe. Their primary jobs include playing and learning, sometimes in very tough environments. A news story of a missing boy or girl makes hearts beat faster with worry. Tragic accidents or intentional cruelty instinctively brings sorrowful or angry emotions to the surface for most of us. At times, however, what happens in view of our children inflicts a hidden trauma, one that can shape their life experiences and determine who they are for years to come. The events of 2020 qualify for both obvious and hidden types of trauma. With citizens in many countries divided on important issues and a pandemic contin...
Source: World of Psychology - June 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Children and Teens Parenting anxiety Childhood Anxiety Coping Skills coronavirus COVID-19 Trauma Source Type: blogs
Working Moms at Risk of Being Left Behind in Economic Recovery
At the start of 2020, even before the coronavirus pandemic upended daily life, being a working parent was a challenge. To the extent that the pandemic may intensify the perception of parenting being at odds with work, there may be devastating career consequences for both today ' s and tomorrow ' s working mothers. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 10, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Melanie A. Zaber; Kathryn A. Edwards Source Type: blogs
We Can Teach Children Not to Hate
“You’ve got to be taught…
Before you are six
Or seven
Or eight
To hate all the people
Your relatives hate
You’ve got to be Carefully Taught”
These words are from a song in the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, South Pacific, written in 1949. In 1952, Oscar Hammerstein introduced the song during The National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Week. Here’s a clip from CriticalPast, an archive of historic footage. That was 70 years ago!
They were right then. Their words are right now. Children are not born hating other children. Toddlers on a playground approach any other toddler is a potential frie...
Source: World of Psychology - June 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Parenting Racism anti-racism Prejudice racial bias racial justice Stereotype Source Type: blogs
How Do Couples Stay Together When They Have the Same Issues of Couples That Divorce?
Marital discord is well researched and has a significant amount of literature that addresses many areas of a relationship. These studies include the issues of parenting, finances, diversity issues and the acceptance of each other through clinical intervention. However, there is very little research on what makes a couple stay together when they have the same issues as couples that divorce. Using a phenomenological study, I addressed this question.
The criteria for the study included couples needing to score above 60 on the Couples Satisfaction Index (CSI) Questionnaire, a 16-item questionnaire that asked the couple membe...
Source: World of Psychology - June 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Dorothy O’Neill Tags: Marriage and Divorce Relationships Research Source Type: blogs
Agoraphobia Relapse Fears
I am familiar with agoraphobia, not just as a mental health crisis responder but because my own mental illness has manifested into periods of debilitating anxiety. What I now refer to as the breakdown of 2007, was a period of my life where I was struggling with many issues and my mental health suffered greatly as a result. I found it difficult to leave my house and the comfort zone of my home. Staying home as much as possible was the only way I could maintain some sense of sanity, when I was feeling anything but sane. I lived in this state of chronic agoraphobia for many days. This turned into many months and eventually it...
Source: World of Psychology - June 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sue Morton Tags: Anxiety and Panic Agoraphobia coronavirus COVID-19 social distancing Source Type: blogs
Study gives insight — and advice — on picky eating in children
As a pediatrician, I hear it again and again from parents: “My child is a picky eater.”
All children are picky eaters at some point or in some way during childhood; it’s part of how they assert their independence. But some children are pickier than others, stubbornly refusing to eat everything except a few chosen foods.
So what is a parent to do? A new article published in the journal Pediatrics gives some insight into picky eating — and into how we can prevent it and help.
What does this study on picky eaters tell us?
Picky eating starts early — and stays. Researchers looked at the habits of children ages 4 to 9...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Children's Health Healthy Eating Nutrition Parenting Source Type: blogs
Birth and Pregnancy Resources
Back in the day, when a pregnant woman needed advice, she’d call her mother. Or grandmother, or cousins, or sisters – a trusted female relative who had been through the ups and downs, the hormonal shifts, and the hankering for bizarre food combos at 3:00 in the morning. Sure, the bookstore had a pregnancy section (nay, shelf) you could peruse, and there was a related magazine or two for sale. But now, we live in a world in which you can type “mucous plug” into a search engine and yield thousands of responses. And those are just the websites; social media is one big cluster of the good, the bad, and the very unsuppo...
Source: Cord Blood News - June 9, 2020 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Jennifer Dembo Tags: pregnancy Source Type: blogs
The divorced physician parent in the time of COVID-19
I ’d like to focus on a group that isn’t discussed much: the divorced health care parent. With physician marriages ending at a rate of 24 percent and over 1 million physicians and 18 million health care workers in the U.S., this topic will undoubtedly resonate with many despite a paucity of lite rature. Co-parenting is hard […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 126 | A triple-episode ft. Bigfoot, Tictrac, Lifestance & many more
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, there’s been so much movement in digital health funding this week that we have a triple-episode. Bigfoot Biomedical raised $55 million in a Series C, Tictrac raised $7.5 million for employee wellness, Lifestance Health raised a whopping $1.2 billion, Maven acquired Bright Parenting, Higi raised $30 million, Bright.md raised $16.7 million, Tia raises $24 million, Doktor.se raising €45 million, Orbita raised $9 million, Curatio’s undisclosed A, Siren raised $11.8 million, 100plus raised $15 million, Ubie raised $18.7 million, Change Healthcare acquired 2 different companies—PDX ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt 100plus Bigfoot Biomedical Bright Parenting Bright.md Change Healthcare Curatio Doktor.se Higi Lifestance Health Maven Orbita Siren Tia Tic Source Type: blogs
7 Ways Parents Can Handle Behavioral Challenges During Quarantine
Juggling the stress of sheltering-in-place, working from home, and homeschooling children presents challenges for most families. With families who have previously experienced behavioral difficulties, or for parents of children with a psychological disorder, the physical and emotional toll of meeting the family’s needs can be especially taxing. Add to the mix parent’s concerns about the safety and well-being of family members, social restrictions, and many questions of what “normal” life will look like.
As with many parenting and behavior management strategies, the effectiveness lies in the anticipation and prevent...
Source: World of Psychology - June 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michelle Conti, Psy.D. Tags: Agitation Children and Teens Parenting Behavioral Difficulties Coping Skills coronavirus COVID-19 home schooling Resilience social distancing Source Type: blogs
Parents Have More Synchronised Patterns Of Brain Activity When They ’re Together
By Emily Reynolds
It’s an oft-repeated supposition that you can tell whether someone fancies you by their body language: if they mirror how you’re standing or moving, the theory goes, they might just like you back. But romantic partners don’t just have behavioural synchrony — in some cases, they have brain-to-brain synchrony too.
A pattern that has also been observed in musicians and their audiences, brain-to-brain synchrony is a mirroring of neural activity between individuals or groups. And according to a new study in Scientific Reports, such synchrony in spouses could affect how they respond to their children.
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Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Babies Brain Social Source Type: blogs
5 winning ways for kids to burn energy
Could your kids power the electrical grid, if you could only figure out how to tap that energy? Someday, all the hours spent cooped up at home will be a memory, not a daily reality. But if your children are bouncing off the walls with schools and day care still closed and summer coming, here are five active ideas to safely channel their energy. Pandemic or not, preschoolers benefit from active play throughout the day, and children ages 6 to 17 should rack up at least 60 minutes of activity daily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And since regular activity boosts health and lifts mood, everyone s...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Elson, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Exercise and Fitness Parenting Source Type: blogs
Parenting as an ICU physician
COVID-19 has upended the medical community. Nowhere more so than in the intensive care unit. Life as an intensivist with two young children and a working spouse is never dull. I liken it to tight-rope walking with a pole for balance. I wake up every morning and balance the clinical responsibilities, teaching, reviewing journals, learning, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mary-jarzebowski" rel="tag" > Mary Jarzebowski, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Critical Care Hospital-Based Medicine Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
How to Reassure Your Kids When You Go Back to Work After COVID-19
“The thrill of coming home has never changed.” – Guy Pearce
When you get the call or email that your employer wants you to return to work during the country’s gradual re-opening after the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s likely you’ll experience conflicting emotions. The relief of knowing there’ll be a paycheck coming in again and some semblance of normalcy will resume could be offset by worries about how your kids, who’ve become used to your presence at home for several months, will fare, physically and psychologically. Here are some tips on how to reassure your kids when you go back to work after COVID-19.
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Source: World of Psychology - June 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Children and Teens Parenting coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
