Tips for Parents: Managing Anxiety during COVID19
Here are 10 ways to help you manage your children’s anxiety throughout these unprecedented times.
Why is it so hard to be bored?
Boredom can be both a force for good, creativity and new ideas, but it can also lead us to feel apathetic. But you have a choice which state of boredom you embrace.
Tolstoy “The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.
One of the biggest struggles we all face right now is the almost Herculean effort it takes to be stuck in a state that we hate: WAITING. In fact, it goes counter to our modern ways of no longer waiting for anything and our intolerance when things are slow.
Mourning the Mundane (While Knowing that the Mourning Period Will End)
Whether it is due to the loss of the freedom to meet a friend for coffee, go to work, drop kids off at school, visit a grandparent, or attend a spin class, we are now a world in mourning. What a strange sense of loss it is to have the entire world as we know it suddenly put on pause, with no clear time for its restart.
Dealing with the SHOULDS in the age of COVID-19
I am hearing from and reading about a lot of parents who are struggling with managing their own guilt and shame around being in a state of isolation with their children and having to add to their already difficult role of parent, chef, disciplinarian, consoler, teacher, etc.