Summer can be rough! Structure is comforting, and kids might feel anxious about an uncertain schedule. I'm linking to a set of resources available for FREE at Understood.org (darn, they are good...) to give you some ideas to alleviate back to school and summer anxiety.
I'll be posting soon about how attention, anxiety, and executive function are linked- but I'd like to share here, briefly- the amygdala is the 'fight or flight' part of our brain, and when we are feeling uneasy, our frontal lobe, or the executive functioning/air traffic control part of the brain just CAN'T. So a sense of safety and control is essential for our kids to learn, and as parents, we can help alleviate some of that stress by going over a plan. More on that soon... enjoy the resource- lots of 'back to school' stuff to browse, and I'm not sure how I feel about that! If you'd like more help implementing these strategies, contact me or consider registering for the middle school workshop on August 11. Leave a Reply. |