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Unpacking Stress: Raising Resilient Children in Hamilton Township

Our message to Hamilton Township parents dives into the stress and pressures faced by children today, aiming to facilitate an honest conversation about promoting resilience and reducing harmful stress. The event focuses on understanding children's needs, recognizing harmful behaviors, and building a support network. Let’s come together to raise healthy, resilient children in a safe, nurturing environment.

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Unpacking Stress: Raising Resilient Children in Hamilton Township

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  1. Dear Hamilton Township Parents: Our families demand excellence from our education system…

  2. …and our educators demand excellence from our students.

  3. But what happens when the demands expected by both parties create unintended and undesireable outcomes?

  4. Recent media stories and research have raised questions regarding the stress and pressures that our children are facing.

  5. These stresses are widespread in our children… While stress is a normal component of childhood and adolescence…

  6. …the level of stress and pressure to achieve…is not healthy for children…

  7. An Honest Conversation with Parents and Other Adults in the Hamilton Township School District George Scott, EdS, LMFT Center for Counseling Services February 15, 2018 609-771-0444 Raising Healthy Children…And Knowing What To Do When Things Go Wrong

  8. At the end of the evening you will: ◦ Understand the ingredients that help children and adolescents grow-up healthy; ◦ Recognize that children do well---if they can; ◦ Examine whether YOUR behavior creates harmful and unnecessary stress for your children; Consider how you can change your approaches to parenting that then can reduce the risks to your children ◦ Identify who your support team can be when you are troubled by your child’s behavior and attitudes; Tonight’s OBJECTIVES

  9. In the absence of understanding, human Beings suffer and sometimes die:

  10. Effects of ingesting lead In the absence of understanding, human Beings suffer and sometimes die:

  11. Effects of ingesting lead Tobacco use In the absence of understanding, human Beings suffer and sometimes die:

  12. Effects of ingesting lead Tobacco use Ignoring Universal Precautions In the absence of understanding, human Beings suffer and sometimes die:

  13. Effects of ingesting lead Tobacco use Ignoring Universal Precautions Obesity In the absence of understanding, human Beings suffer and sometimes die:

  14. Effects of ingesting lead Tobacco use Ignoring Universal Precautions Obesity The Effects of Toxic Stress and Traumatic Events In the absence of understanding, human Beings suffer and sometimes die:

  15. What are the basic ingredients our children need to be successful? Let’s begin here…

  16. What are the basic ingredients our children need to be successful? •A Safe Environment(physically and emotionally); Let’s begin here…

  17. What are the basic ingredients our children need to be successful? •A Safe Environment(physically and emotionally); •Academic and social opportunities for growth Let’s begin here…

  18. What are the basic ingredients our children need to be successful? •A Safe Environment(physically and emotionally); •Academic and social opportunities for growth •Rules, expectations and predictability; Let’s begin here…

  19. What are the basic ingredients our children need to be successful? •A Safe Environment(physically and emotionally); •Academic and social opportunities for growth •Rules, expectations and predictability; •Acceptance for who they are, not only for what they do. Let’s begin here…

  20. Let’s look at that again in another way!

  21. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency

  22. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure… Resiliency

  23. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure…to cope with everyday challenges Resiliency

  24. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure…to cope with everyday challenges…to bounce back from disappointments, adversity and trauma Resiliency

  25. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure…to cope with everyday challenges…to bounce back from disappointments, adversity and trauma, to develop clear and realistic goals Resiliency

  26. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure…to cope with everyday challenges…to bounce back from disappointments, adversity and trauma, to develop clear and realistic goals, to solve problems Resiliency

  27. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure…to cope with everyday challenges…to bounce back from disappointments, adversity and trauma, to develop clear and realistic goals, to solve problems, to relate comfortably with others. Resiliency

  28. What is all the talk about RESILIENCY?? Resiliency includes…the ability of a child to deal more effectively with stress and pressure…to cope with everyday challenges…to bounce back from disappointments, adversity and trauma, to develop clear and realistic goals, to solve problems, to relate comfortably with others. Raising Resilient Children, Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein Resiliency

  29. Kids who know their strengths and weaknesses and feel good about themselves seem to have an easier time handling conflicts and resisting negative pressures. Kids who think poorly of themselves have a hard time finding solutions to problems. Faced with new challenges, their immediate response might be “I can’t”. Think about this AGAIN…

  30. How does Resiliency develop? Where does it come from?

  31. How does Resiliency develop? Where does it come from? But first, let me ask you this?

  32. Would you consider yourself a…

  33. Would you consider yourself a… Helicopter parent?

  34. Would you consider yourself a… Helicopter parent? OR…

  35. A snowplow parent?

  36. Neither is desirable!!!!!!!

  37. Both styles prevent children from developing healthy independence, problem solving and persistence for doing what is not fun.

  38. In the beginning…

  39. there were children. In the beginning…

  40. But, what happened? How did some of our children grow up only to arrive here?

  41. • drinking and drugging to numb the pain But, what happened? How did some of our children grow up only to arrive here?

  42. • drinking and drugging to numb the pain • cutting or burning to relieve the hurt But, what happened? How did some of our children grow up only to arrive here?

  43. • drinking and drugging to numb the pain • cutting or burning to relieve the hurt • failing in spite of immense potential But, what happened? How did some of our children grow up only to arrive here?

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