#resilience

8-Year-Olds in Despair: The Mental Health Crisis Is Getting Younger (The New York Times)

8-Year-Olds in Despair: The Mental Health Crisis Is Getting Younger (The New York Times)

The number of children who need urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and spiked during the pandemic. Between April and October of 2020, there was a 24 percent increase in the proportion of mental health emergency department visits for kids ages 5 to 11 compared with the same period in 2019.

Energy and Calm: 'Brain Breaks' & Focused-Attention Practices (George Lucas Educational Foundation)

Energy and Calm: 'Brain Breaks' & Focused-Attention Practices (George Lucas Educational Foundation)

When we take a ‘brain break’, it refreshes our thinking and helps us discover another solution to a problem or see a situation through a different lens. A ‘focused-attention’ practice is a brain exercise for quieting the thousands of thoughts that distract and frustrate us each day. Here are simple techniques to get kids of all ages involved in both game-changing practices!