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Stress and Anxiety Around the Holidays: How to Help Your Child Enjoy the Season

December 8, 2022 Madeleine Vieira

Children can feel stress around the holidays for a variety of reasons. The number of people at the gatherings may make them uncomfortable. Or the change in routine may give them anxiety. They feel unsure of what to expect and that in turn makes them feel stressed.

You may not even know exactly what about the holidays seems to trigger your child. You just know that this time of year is difficult for them, and you want to help in any way you can.

Here are some tips to help make this holiday as smooth and enjoyable as possible.

First, Make Sure That You Are Taking Care of Yourself

Calm, like stress, is contagious. Whatever you are feeling, your children are going to be feeling too. So be sure to preemptively take some time to yourself this holiday season.(1) Spend a few minutes a few days doing something relaxing that you enjoy like reading a book or going for a walk.

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In Childhood Mental Health, Anxiety Tags Stress and Anxiety Around the Holidays: How to Help Your Child Enjoy the Season, holiday anxiety, holiday stress, enjoy the season, self-care, keep routine, family gatherings, loneliness, manage expectations, keep active, quality time, family togetherness, help others, quiet time, avoid overscheduling

Two Mental Health Events With a Common Thread: Friendship and Connection

May 3, 2022 Madeleine Vieira
Hands united together

Our children’s mental health and our own mental health can feel like topics difficult to tackle. Being equipped with the right knowledge, however, can make all the difference.

Mental health events can do exactly this. They often have speakers, online forums, and other resources to help make difficult topics easier to understand and talk about. A theme often ties the event together to focus on one area of mental health.

Both events that are happening in May very fittingly chose to focus on connection and friendship.

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In Childhood Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness Tags Two Mental Health Events With a Common Thread: Friendship and Connection, US Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Find Connections. Build Community., connections, community, sense of belonging, understanding one’s struggles and perspectives, UK Mental Health Awareness Week, loneliness, self-worth, life satisfaction

The Winter Blues: How Seasonal Affective Disorder Can Affect Children

February 21, 2022 Madeleine Vieira
Small boy reaching for a leaf in the snow

Winter. The days are shorter. It gets dark before dinner is finished. It’s hard to get outside. There are so many dreary, overcast, no-sunshine-in-sight days.

Winter also contains some of the most fun activities of the year. Building snowmen and drinking hot cocoa to warm up afterwards. Enjoying holiday traditions and seeing your child’s face light up as they open gifts. The list could go on and on.

Many people, though, find the weather and darkness of winter to be a difficult time of year. Even children can struggle with the changing of the seasons. But when sadness in winter becomes severe, the person may be suffering from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD.

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In Seasonal Affective Disord, Childhood Mental Health Tags The Winter Blues: How Seasonal Affective Disorder Can Affect Children, winter, winter blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder, sadness, loneliness, tiredness, isolation, SAD, page2

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