Skip to main content

Tag: family

Just in time for Thanksgiving

Written by Susan Lamanna. Posted in Books, Children, General.

book title with cabbage soup
Buy on Amazon A heartfelt and lushly illustrated fairy tale portraying the importance of gratitude and family. Miles and his father, a poor but loving carpenter without much work, live in a modest hovel and are often hungry without enough food. When a magical and tiny man appears only to Miles, Lord Biglio, as he is called, grants the boy a wish. It doesn’t take long for Miles to ask for a rich manor house with plenty to eat and plenty of gold coins, and soon he finds himself living in grandeur among noblemen and noblewomen. Yet once Miles realizes that his father is not present, it...

Continue reading

Should you worry about your children and schooling during the COVID19 pandemic?

Written by Debra Harkins. Posted in Children, COVID and Mental Health, General.

two girls looking at books on library
I’ve been a child developmental psychologist for over 20+ years. Here’s my opinion on children and school. Children will have a similar experience in school or out as COVID runs its course. School is NOT in any way, shape, or form the same right now whether you’re “in the classroom” or not. I know parents want their kids back to school but “school” is not school right now and it just can’t be. Children will be fine! Enjoy the time you have with them as much as possible. What they most need is parents who are alive, parents who are not mourning the loss of their parents and siblings’ deaths,...

Continue reading