by Hannah Beach | May 30, 2023
Parents of George Bonner Elementary School / Cowichan Valley School District. See your school administration for more details. Description: Children and youth are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever. Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises...
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 7, 2020 | Aggression, Arts, Emotional Health, Emotional Release, Expression, Feelings, Hands-on Activities
This is a great activity for kids ages five to eleven. (These ages are approximate and are suggested guidelines only.) What’s the benefit? This activity can help a child think about frustration and what it feels like inside of them. It can also help...
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...
