Supporting our Kids
Resources when talking to kids about Coronavirus
Here is an article from Community Mental Health about Coping with the Stress of COVID-19. The article helps to outline ways to manage anxiety, helping your child manage anxiety, resources for parents, ways to stay connected, and so much more!
Workbook for Coronavirus Support
Scholastic has recently released this incredible workbook for children to process their emotions and understanding of this pandemic. This 16 page workbook gives kids strategies for releasing their emotions in effective ways, they may create their own daily routines, and a space to write and process their understanding of what is going on in the world.
We are so excited to share this incredible resource! If you have an early primary kiddo use this as a guide to facilitate conversation. If your kiddo is older, let them explore the workbook but know you are there to support them along the way.
We often recommend this book to parents who are noticing anxiety in their kiddos and admit to having this struggle themselves. We have included the Amazon link if you are interested in purchasing. Here is a short blurb on the text:
"From their success with hundreds of organizations, schools, and families, Reid Wilson, PhD, and Lynn Lyons, LICSW, share their unconventional approach of stepping into uncertainty in a way that is currently unfamiliar but infinitely successful. Using current research and contemporary examples, the book exposes the most common anxiety-enhancing patterns—including reassurance, accommodation, avoidance, and poor problem solving—and offers a concrete plan with 7 key principles that foster change. And, since new research reveals how anxious parents typically make for anxious children, the book offers exercises and techniques to change both the children's and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving."
https://www.amazon.com/Anxious-Kids-Parents-Courageous-Independent/dp/0757317626