Navigating Your Child’s Return to In-Person Learning

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English - April 20, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB
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Children in particular have proven their resiliency time and time again throughout the past 13 months. However, as the world slowly turns back towards normal and schools reopen, they're finding themselves relearning how to maneuver social interactions with peers and educators, and consequently a new series of mental and emotional stressors. On this episode, Dr. Christine Garcia of the Edgewood Center in San Francisco discusses how to navigate the return to in-person instruction, social anxieties, and how parents or guardians can help support their children.

"[Kids] are absorbing and watching you and taking their cues from you. So prepare yourself too for the level of transition that they're going to have to make and how that might be on their minds a lot. Because, kids want to do well. They want to be happy. They move towards growth. And so this is for many kids, a hopeful time of going back to what they knew, but it's also scary because they've been away from it for so long." --Dr. Christine Garcia

Additional Resources for Parents Needing Support:

Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU), Edgewood:
https://edgewood.org/crisis-stabilization/

415-682-3278

Trevor Project:
www.thetrevorproject.org

1-866-488-7386

Crisis Text Line:

Send a text to 741741