We have all watched our students and children strive to cope during and after the impact of the pandemic. Lakeside has had to substantially increase our In-School Counseling staff, who work in area schools providing extra support, due to the overwhelming needs that students are experiencing in our post-COVID world. Middle Schoolers are at the […]
How Do Parents Avoid Passing Anxiety to their Kids
When we provide training to schools through our Neurologic training one of the issues that we focus on is co-regulation. We acknowledge that many students are anxious and dysregulated but we often ignore the fact that teachers are also dysregulated and struggling to cope with the stress of the classroom. But what about parents? They […]
Childhood Abuse and Neglect Behind Closed Doors
ABC’s 20/20 aired a documentary on November 19 entitled Escape from a House of Horror in which Diane Sawyer interviewed two young women who described their lives and their escape from living for decades in a family where all the children were horrifically abused. We learn how a family of 13 children were starved, beaten, […]
Is There Any Good News from COVID – 19?
As we move forward from this Thanksgiving Season, it is very difficult to feel positive feelings about the impact of this COVID pandemic. On the horizon there is yet another variant which has already emerged and may threaten our world yet again. We continue to feel the impact of this pandemic physically, emotionally and psychologically. […]
Thanksgiving Week
This week we have the opportunity to change our pace and our world of relationships by stopping to give thanks for all we have and all we share with family and friends. As you experience this holiday it is my hope that you may receive this invitation from the quote above. Happy Thanksgiving to you all […]
The School Board Wars
I cannot remember a time where we saw school board members and community members having the kind of battles that we have seen in recent days. Most of these arguments are related to what schools should and should not impose in their health and safety plans. The arguments have become heated and sometimes violent. The […]
Alarming Research about the Impact of the Pandemic on Children’s IQs
There is some recent research about the impact of the pandemic on children that is alarming, research that we should all take note of. This past summer there were headlines stating that children born during pandemic have lower IQs. Not just lower IQs but substantially lower IQs. A headline from The Guardian states the following: Researchers blame lack of […]
Media Guidelines for Kids
Our kids are literally assaulted with all kinds of messages from the media, particularly if they have computers or their own cell phone. For some of our kids it can reach a level that is very concerning as to how it might be impacting them. It has this addicting sense that is scary for parents […]
Are Schools Feeling the Mental Health Deficits of COVID-19?
As we’re well into the post-COVID 2021/22 school year, our schools had no idea what to anticipate, although we knew there would be some struggles. The impact of this mental health reaction has been felt significantly accordingly to a recent report on the PEW website written by Christine Vestal. Here is the introduction to this […]
Gratitude in the Era of a Pandemic
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, can we be grateful for….wait for it….the Pandemic?! Maybe. I thought an invitation to all of us to reflect on those things we are grateful for about the pandemic might be an interesting exercise. According to the website Positive Psychology in an article entitled What is Gratitude and Why is it so important the Harvard Medical […]
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