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Teens Suffer Highest Rates of FOMO

Surveyed teens report fearing their friends were having more rewarding experiences than them (54%), being worried when they find out their friends are having fun without them (60%) and being bothered when they miss out on a planned get together (63...
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Creating Resilient Families

Resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’ when faced with adversity. It’s about ‘bungy jumping’ through life. When the inevitable pitfalls and setbacks of life occur, it is as if you have an elasticised rope around your middle that helps you to...
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School - Trauma

Children and teens will experience events during their lives that will affect them emotionally and physically. How they react to these events depends on their age, personality and past experiences. There are a number of ways that parents and...
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Managing Angry Feelings

Anger is a normal emotion in both children and adults alike. But how we express and deal with our feelings of anger is the difference between living in relative peace and feeling like we are at our wits’ end. Learning to manage angry children and...
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SchoolTV Special Report: Christchurch

The Christchurch massacre is one of the most extreme acts of terrorism the world has seen in recent times. Unfortunately, this will impact on many children throughout Australia and New Zealand. Some parents and care givers may struggle to explain...
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Kiddle - Kids Safe Search

Kiddle is a visual search engine for children: https://www.kiddle.co/ . When your children use the internet to search for images for projects or school work, please encourage them to use Kiddle instead of Google. Kiddle is a child-specific search...
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SchoolTV

This month’s topic on SchoolTV is grief and loss: https://pacificlutheran.qld.schooltv.me/newsletter/grief-loss Children and adults grieve differently due to their developmental stage. Young children can struggle to understand the permanency of loss...
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How to Respond to Expressions of Frustration

Pouting, whining and sulking are some of the ways that children communicate their displeasure, anger or frustration with a situation. This behaviour is not just limited to young children either, teens do it because they haven’t always learned the...
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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week – an excellent reason to focus on how important a healthy body image is for both mental and physical health. Learn more at: https://childmind.org/article/when-to-worry-about-an-eating-disorder...
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Facing Battles

Sheltering your children might do more harm than good. Sometimes children need to face their own battles. Learn more at: https://www.psychologytoday.com . Mrs Annie Williams, College Counsellor
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