Helping Your Child
Online Resources:
- The Parent Guide to Resilience
- Parent’s Guide to Teen Depression: Here’s How You can Recognize the Signs and Symptoms and Best Help Your Child
- Are you worried about your child?
- Answering questions about kids & Coronavirus
- Feeling Anxious About Our Troubled Times? This App May Help
- Child Mind Institute: Supporting Families During COVID-19
- How to Access and Afford Mental Health Treatment During the Coronavirus
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center: Resources to support mental health and coping with COVID-19
- NAMI: Coronavirus mental health coping strategies
- Child Mind Institute: How to avoid passing anxiety on to your kids
- Recommendations for Children and Parents: Managing Anxiety and OCD During COVID-19
- Child Mind Institute: Managing anger and frustration
- Child Mind Institute: Supporting teenagers and young adults during the Coronavirus crisis
- The Trevor Project: Implications of COVID-19 for LGBTQ youth mental health and suicide prevention
- Firearm suicide and COVID-19: Mitigating risk during a pandemic
Activities:
- Hope Squad: 30-Day Family Challenge (PDF)
- Hope Squad: Self-Care Bingo (PDF)
- Hope Squad: Gratitude Journal (PDF)
- Hope Squad: Learn more about teletherapy (PDF)
- Project YES – Coping skills training for teens
- Practice yoga at home
- Practice guided meditation
- Improve kids’ self-love
- Show kids how mindfulness works
- Make a calming box
- De-stress through sound
Videos:
- Anxiety and Tips for Parents
- Coping with catastrophic thinking when things do seem kind of bad
- Modeling healthy management of parent emotions while social distancing
Maintaining Your Health
Exercise:
- Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle from the American Heart Association
- Recommendations from the Society of Health and Physical Educators
- Towel Fitness
- Paper Plate Tabata
- Follow Along Dances
- Free workout videos
- Down Dog App (Yoga, HIIT, Barre, and 7-minute workout apps)
- Free online fitness streams and YouTube channels, etc.
- 100 Mile Club – 26 Day Challenge
Sleep:
Mindfulness:
National Mental Health Resources
- Betterhelp.com – Be matched with a professional, licensed, vetted counselor that you can trust and pay less than typical fees.
- Parentguidance.org
- Complete NAMI guide for dealing with the Coronavirus: https://www.nami.org/getattachment/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2020/COVID-19-and-Mental-Illness-NAMI-Releases-Importan/COVID-19-Updated-Guide-1.pdf?lang=en-US
- NIMH Covid resources: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/education-awareness/shareable-resources-on-coping-with-covid-19.shtml
Helpful Tips:
- Eat 1 meal a day as a family
- Schedule set times to get up and go to bed (keep a consistent routine/schedule) regardless of whether you are face to face or virtual student
- Limit times on electronic devices
- Encourage daily connection with friends
- Physical touch/contact – kids need at least 6 hugs a day
- In an age-appropriate way, share your struggles with your kids (lets them know that they are not alone and that everyone finds this time challenging)
- Make outside activities a priority every day, even if the weather is less than perfect