Jun 10, 2020
The Conversation – Javeed Sukhara
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant amount of attention on our mental health. While organizations are compiling a wide range of online toolkits and templates, the impact of the pandemic on those with pre-existing mental health challenges seems to be missing from our collective conversation. Although all of us are feeling more vulnerable, there are members of our community who were already struggling before physical distancing restrictions were in place.
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Jun 10, 2020
Romper – Claire Zulkey
There’s a good chance that whatever visions you had for your family’s summer of 2020 have been significantly altered. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, lots of us are without the child care, let alone entertainment, we normally count on this time of year.Many of us are exhausted, anxious, and depressed from parenting these last few weeks, figuring out how best to explain police brutality, racism, and systemic injustice to our kids. How do we even go about even thinking about how to make it a fun-in-the-sun season?
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Jun 9, 2020
Moms – Leena Nasir
Let’s face it, having the kids home for an extended period of time is tough. It’s a real gift to be able to spend this much time with them –as long as we can figure out how to make it work and fit everything in! It can be quite chaotic to just “go with the flow” each day, especially if you have children in different age groups and stages of development. There’s a lot going on at once on the average day, and having everyone at home around the clock is a huge adjustment.
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Jun 9, 2020
Moms – Jayme Kennedy
As much as kids talk, it can be really hard to get them to actually TALK to you, you know what we mean? Our kids could sit and talk for hours about video games or their friends or even a bowl of cereal. But if we ask them a simple question, like how’s your day going, and suddenly they clam up and we’re left trying to decipher how things went using their one-word answers and noncommittal grunts and shrugs.
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Jun 8, 2020
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Engaging in family meals may be a matter of improving communication and support at home. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, connects less family discouragement and better family communication with a higher likelihood to eat evening family meals and family breakfasts together, and not in front of a television.
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