- Higley Unified School District
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Higley's Take a Moment Podcast
This is "Take a Moment," a podcast created for Higley Unified School District's students, staff and community. Through conversations we hope to share thoughts and ideas related to living a healthy emotional, mental and physical lifestyle. Thank you for taking a moment to join us today.
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CDC: Care for Yourself Advice
- Take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories, including social media. Hearing about the pandemic repeatedly can be upsetting.
- Take care of your body. Take deep breaths, stretch, or meditate. Try to eat healthy, well-balanced meals, exercise regularly, get plenty of sleep, and avoid alcohol and drugs.
- Make time to unwind. Try to do some other activities you enjoy.
- Connect with others. Talk with people you trust about your concerns and how you are feeling.
Call your healthcare provider if stress gets in the way of your daily activities for several days in a row.For additional information, see the CDC website.
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Mindwise Innovations: ACT at Home for Parents
- Acknowledge concerns
- Care through listening and talking
- Tell children you are there for them
More information available online.
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Mindwise Innovations: Guided Exercises to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
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Mindwise Innovations: Managing Reactions
- Tips for managing anxiety related to unfolding news
- Talking with your children about highly stressful events
Information available online.
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Mindwise Innovations: Safety, Predictability, and Control
- Safety: Minimize harm; Increase internal and emotional safety
- Predictability: Routines; Schedules; Organize
- Control: Help; Small islands of mastery; Focus on strengths
Information available online.
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Mindwise Innovations: Tips for Parents Self-Care
While there are many helpful recommendations on how to talk to your children about COVID-19 and help them manage anxiety in this time, it’s just as important that you model healthy coping mechanisms yourself. It’s OK to show your kids you’re worried, but then show them how to manage those feelings in a healthy way, so they will be able to as well.
More information available online.
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Mindwise Innovations: Tips for Parents-Supporting Your Kids and Yourself
This pandemic puts an extraordinary amount of pressure on parents to cope with our own reactions keep households running, and manage childcare while school is cancelled. On top of that, many of us are worried about how the pandemic is affecting our kids’ behavioral health. While there are many helpful recommendations on how to talk to your children about COVID-19 and help them manage anxiety in this time, it’s just as important that you model healthy coping mechanisms yourself. It’s OK to show your kids you’re worried, but then show them how to manage those feelings in a healthy way, so they will be able to as well.
Information available online.
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SAMHSA: Taking Care of Your Behavioral Health
Ways To Support Yourself During Social Distancing, Quarantine, and Isolation
Everyone reacts differently to stressful situations such as an infectious disease outbreak that requires social distancing, quarantine, or isolation.
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TogetherAZ: Endless Possibilities When You Follow Your Heart
Our human nature tells us to remain in routine and often times by doing so we neglect the best parts of ourselves. Stepping out of our comfort zone builds up new skills and allows parts of ourselves to heal that we didn’t even know needed healing.
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TogetherAZ: Maintaining Your Emotional Immunity
Uncertainty is one of our most difficult feelings to manage. We, humans, like to wrap our minds around things, we like to know what’s going to happen.
But do we? Hmmm.
That’s the age-old question. It is times like these that pull us into the present, that remind us of who we love and what we have.
Tips to manage anxiety and actively create balance
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Wide Open School: Educational and Emotional Well-Being Resources
Wide Open School is a free collection of the online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. There is so much good happening, and they are there to gather great materials and organize it so teachers and families can easily find it and plan each day. Included are emotional well-being resources for those in grades PreK-5 and 6-12.
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Yale Child Study: Coping with Home, School and Work
Stick to a routine. That’s the theme that runs through advice from Yale Child Study Center experts when it comes to a struggle many families are now facing: working at home alongside children who are out of school or daycare because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This is really hard, and parents are rightfully concerned about trying to balance their responsibilities as working adults with this complete upheaval in the lives of their children,” says Leah Booth, MA, a speech-language pathologist at the Yale Child Study Center.
8 Tips for Working From Home With Kids During COVID-19
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Wellness Apps
All Age Groups
Cosmic Kids Yoga: All ages, but mostly geared towards younger children 4-9 year olds
Cost: Free
Ages 2-5 years old
Smiling Stretch Yoga
Cost: Free
Ages 3-10 years old
Calm
Cost: Free
Ages 4+ years old
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
Cost: Free
Headspace
Cost: Free
Insight Timer
Cost: Free
Stop, Breathe, and Think Kids: 4+ years or older, but more geared for older children and adults
Ages 5-10 years old
Smiling Mind
Cost: Free
Ages 7-18 years old
Pacifica
Cost: Free
Ages 12+ years old
For Me by Childline
Apple Store Android Store: Not Available
Cost: Free
Fabulos Self Care
Cost: Free
Moodpath
Cost: Free
