by Hannah Beach | May 21, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Arts, Attachment, Building Relationship, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Emotional Safety, Expression, Feelings, Hands-on Activities, Play
How we can reduce anxiety and aggression through activities that provide emotional release As our elementary students head back to school during this turbulent time, there will be many emotions stirred up in them. Alarm. Frustration. Worry. Excitement. And...
by Hannah Beach | Apr 30, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Expression, Play
A few weeks ago, Tamara and I were invited onto the American educational podcast Unstuck, to discuss our newly released book, Reclaiming Our Students. During this podcast, we got talking about why kids are more anxious, aggressive, and shut-down than ever. Well, there...
by Hannah Beach | Apr 21, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Attachment, Building Relationship, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Expression, Play
A couple of weeks ago, Tamara and I joined Jeff Ikler and Kirsten Richert on their podcast, Getting Unstuck, to talk about Reclaiming Our Students and the huge potential for every single person who cares about children’s learning to create deep,...
by Hannah Beach | Apr 2, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Feelings
Like many of us, my family recently learned that my son’s school would be shut down due to the coronavirus epidemic. On his last day of school before the shut down, we were chatting, when he casually told me he had been playing “coronavirus tag” with his friends at...
by Hannah Beach | Mar 25, 2020 | Anxiety, Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Emotional Safety, Feelings, Hands-on Activities, Play
Whether we are a parent, a teacher or a child-care provider, many of us are asking ourselves how we can best support the children in our care during this stressful time of uncertainty around the COVID-19 virus. There are universal strategies that we can use to help...
by Hannah Beach | Jan 15, 2020 | Aggression, Anxiety, Arts, Attachment, Building Relationship, Connection, Emotional Health, Emotional Safety, Expression, Feelings, Play
Our kids are experiencing an emotional crisis. Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever. We are seeing clear evidence of this in our schools, our homes, our neighbourhoods and our community spaces. The situation has become so dire that our...