Boosting mental health skill building
Parenting Struggles When I parented my first-born, I didn’t know about the power of parent sharing. Instead, I often struggled on my own. This created a growing frustration with not always knowing what to do when, as a toddler, she misbehaved. One time, I asked my mother for help. Her reply, “Oh, I never had …
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Art and Mental Health. No Brainer! This new tagline I created from a Wendy MacNaughton quote should help readers (and Google!) better understand aws Studios. In her “Pencil Skills Part 1” post about drawing with healthcare professionals, MacNaughton declares, “Art and health. No. Brainer.” (Which I understand to mean how ones’ involvement in art or …
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MESH + Toy Industry + aws Studios While perusing an issue of “The Toy Book,” a toy industry trade magazine, I came across a mention by Editor in Chief James Zahn in his editorial about “MESH,” a new acronym for “mental, emotional, and social health.” For me, this was a ‘needle in the haystack’ discovery. …
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Background info on aws Studios and why parents can trust the Studios and look forward to my to-be-published picture book!
Something’s Missing In the NY Times article, “There’s a Mental Health Crisis Among American Children. Why?: And the pandemic is not the only reason,” I noticed a missing “why”, a big one. Tingley lists many reasons why we have a mental health crisis in this country. These include issues with data collection, the ability for …
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