Since I lost it once and have to redo it and am including resources, may as well share here:
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My Concerns: ADHD, Anxiety, ASD, Climate change, Collaborative & Connected Parenting, EDS (with POTS & Raynaud’s), Homeschooling (Unschool-ish, SEL focus), Hyperlexia, Sustainability (Search with Ecosia)
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Anxiety:
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/how-can-i-tell-if-i-have-anxiety-what-to-do-about-it-0914175
Too many people are letting anxiety make decisions for them. Approximately 1 in 4 Americans will have an anxiety disorder in their lifetime, and still more experience clinically significant anxiety symptoms that lead them to turn down opportunities and undermine their own potential. Even for those who do not struggle with clinical levels of anxiety, the messages about fear and anxiety in our society are not healthy ones. Long before coronavirus, the repeated message has been that the world is a dangerous place and we are vulnerable. And more than that, we are fragile and can’t handle feelings of anxiety.
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We need to change this narrative and embrace anxiety as the signal that a challenge lies ahead. We can shift the thinking pattern that screams in our heads that the situation portends a threat we cannot manage to a quieter voice that empowers us to handle a challenge, and recognize that we can get back up even when something doesn’t go well. It is time to develop a new mantra: Anxiety is uncomfortable but not dangerous. Anxiety can be tolerated so we don’t need to escape or avoid situations that make us anxious when no objective danger is present.
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Resource: https://mindtrails.virginia.edu/
https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/why-anxiety-should-not-be-feared
Climate Change
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/climate-change
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/your-guide-talking-kids-all-ages-about-climate-change
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772266241/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-climate-change