8 Ways to Authentically Connect with Your Kids
What are you teaching your kids?
Being at home with your children under one roof can be challenging, but amidst a pandemic with the added strain can be really stressful!
How can you use this time to connect more authentically at home with your children in quarantine?
Here are 8 ways to slow down and connect with your kids at home.
1. Slow Down.
You’re probably feeling frustrated with reactionary emotions to a difficult situation. Slowing down and getting real with your emotions shows your kids how to be resilient.
The first step is making a distinction between worry and concern.
Sharing your authentic emotions from ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Children and Teens Family Parenting Publishers YourTango coronavirus COVID-19 kids Parents trust Source Type: blogs
5 winning ways for kids 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 - May 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Elson, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Exercise and Fitness Parenting Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: May 30, 2020
This week’s Psychology Around the Net highlights the current telehealth boom (and how some mental health professionals feel about it), ways to turn your self-criticism into self-compassion, the unique mental health challenges mission-driven work can bring, and more.
Stay well, friends!
Online Therapy Having Its Moment, Bringing Insights On How to Expand Mental Health Services Going Forward: Nicholas Joyce, a psychologist and counselor at University of South Florida, weighs in on his professional colleagues’ attitudes toward telehealth services in the past, how those attitudes are changing amid the COVID-19 pan...
Source: World of Psychology - May 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Discipline mission-driven work Online Therapy Parenting Self Criticism self-compassion Telehealth teletherapy Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Parenting and Bipolar Disorder
Should people with mental illness have children? In today’s Not Crazy Podcast, Gabe and Lisa discuss their own reasons for not having kids, while also giving a platform to Amy Barnabi, a mother of two with bipolar disorder. Amy discusses her decision to have children and shares her experiences, joys and challenges thus far.
What if you can’t be a good parent when your illness flares up? What if the child inherits your diagnosis? If you are a parent with mental illness, you’ve likely heard these questions. Tune in to hear these topics discussed (and much more!) on today’s podcast.
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Source: World of Psychology - May 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Bipolar Children and Teens Disorders Family General Interview Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Source Type: blogs
How to Help Your Family Cope with Numbness and Isolation During COVID-19
Do you notice that your child or teen is feeling more frustrated and hopeless as the shelter-in-place directive continues? I’m hearing from so many families that things seem to be getting increasingly worse. With thousands of schools switching their grading systems to Pass/Fail, many kids are doing the minimal amount of homework to get by. Some may not be keeping up with hygienic routines. Others have reverted to less mature coping skills, erupting and arguing more than they typically do. What can you do to combat their numbness, hopelessness or regressive behaviors?
The first step is acknowledging their very real losses...
Source: World of Psychology - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sharon Saline, Psy.D. Tags: Children and Teens Family Parenting Students Coping Skills coronavirus COVID-19 home school regressive behavior Source Type: blogs
A child psychiatrist ’s tips for digital parenting during COVID
Recently, I was part of a virtual panel discussing ways to help kids and teens manage their digital technology use. The audience, parents from around the world, felt blind-sided about how all of this extra time at home has led to significant increases in screen use for most people. On top of everything else, this […]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 - May 24, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/tracy-asamoah" rel="tag" > Tracy Asamoah, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Taking Control of Regret
We would all like to make the right choices and decisions all of the time, but we don’t. It’s just not realistic or possible. Inevitably everyone will occasionally take the wrong path, miss an opportunity, or say something we shouldn’t have. And later on we regret it.
Regrets are a normal and frustrating part of life. They come in all sizes and often daily. But there’s a big difference between regretting your choice of latte for the day and regretting your choice of career or a lifetime’s worth of parenting decisions. Unfortunately, for some people the larger regrets we experience can become all-consuming and c...
Source: World of Psychology - May 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kurt Smith, Psy.D., LMFT, LPCC, AFC Tags: Aging Men's Issues Midlife Crisis Optimism regret Rumination Source Type: blogs
3 Steps to Help Children Manage Anxiety
Teaching them to tolerate their anxiety can help.
Courage doesn’t come naturally and is never easy for an anxious child. A courageous child has learned that courage is a choice that can be practiced: An experience that follows from fear and anxiety.
Courage is fundamentally the decision to focus on something more important than fear.
Especially for an anxious child, when facing something hard and scary, courage gives them the boost they need to face it front and center.
Practicing courage builds confidence, which in turn delivers the resources kids need to choose it again and again. A courageous child knows how to not o...
Source: World of Psychology - May 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Children and Teens Publishers YourTango anxiety Parenting Tips Source Type: blogs
How to respond to tantrums
As Murphy’s Law would have it, children’s tantrums seem to happen at the most inconvenient times. Your toddler or independent-minded 3-year-old turns red, screams, stomps, and appears possessed when you’ve finally gotten everyone geared up for a family walk, or wrangled that video call you spent days coordinating with relatives to get everyone live at once — or even worse, when you need silence for your weekly video conference call at work.
“What’s gotten into you? We don’t have time for this!” you might think. Everything you say and do seems to make the tantrum worse, and it takes all of your remaining res...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jacqueline Sperling, PhD Tags: Behavioral Health Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Pregnancy During Covid-19
I’m a certified childbirth education instructor. So, it will come as no surprise that I believe every expectant parent should take a childbirth education class.
While formally preparing for labor, birth and postpartum doesn’t guarantee a specific outcome or experience, it does provide a wealth of information. And when it comes to something as unpredictable as the birth process, knowledge is power. Pregnant women deserve a comprehensive understanding of their options. They need to know what awaits them at their birth location (be it home, birth center or hospital), what they can expect from their care team, and most imp...
Source: Cord Blood News - May 19, 2020 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: maze_cordadmin Tags: Cord Blood Education pregnancy Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Mom Driven, Doctor Aligned
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 18, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Parenting Podcast Positive Parenting Working Mom Source Type: blogs
Five Positive Lessons COVID-19 Can Teach Our Children
As schools begin to discuss the parameters and possibilities of safely reopening in the Fall, one question burns on the mind of every parent, “What has or will this experience do to my child psychologically?”
It’s true that the extreme measures that have been taken and the dire circumstances of COVID-19 have left an impression of which we have yet to see the full effects. Depending on children’s ages, their experience ranges from very little awareness to total and complete cognitive dissonance of what they thought their senior year, for instance, would look like.
The way families cope with this new environment ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bonnie McClure Tags: Children and Teens Parenting coronavirus COVID-19 Gratitude Source Type: blogs
New warning on coronavirus symptoms in children — what parents need to know
While most children who get COVID-19 have a mild or even asymptomatic illness, there are new reports that some children may have a complication that can be severe and dangerous.
Called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it can lead to life-threatening problems with the heart and other organs in the body. Early reports compared it to Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory illness that can lead to heart problems. But while some cases look very much like Kawasaki’s, others have been different. Experts think that MIS-C is likely a reaction of the body to eithe...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Infectious diseases Parenting Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 and Autistic Children
In conclusion, none of us planned for this terrible virus to circle the globe. And none of us could anticipate how dangerous maintaining close social contact could become. We, like most, are simply making the best of a horrific situation.
COVID-19 is bad, but it’s much worse if you’re autistic. You are simply one step more removed from people, and this, although significantly detrimental, can be compensated for with a little love and creativity. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - May 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Aspergers Autism Children and Teens Parenting Personal Autism Spectrum Autistic Children coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic Source Type: blogs
How to be a better doctor? Stop being their doctor.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a slew of challenges that were previously unimaginable for many of us. Social isolation, separation from beloved family members, the daily struggle to juggle work, parenting, and teaching in times of economic and generalized uncertainty – these are just some of the difficulties arising from the current situation. […]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)
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