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Back To School With COVID-19

Back to school is going to look different for Oklahoma students. Some communities are rotating students on two-day/three-day schedules. Others are combining virtual with in person and others are going all virtual or all in person. Regardless of how school districts prepare, parents, teachers, and children are concerned, worried, and scared. Each state is releasing …

Children’s Fears During These Times

As schools prepare to open amid COVID-19, children and parents nationwide are fearful of the disease and of infecting others. Although sheltering in place has been a time for families to create fond memories, it has allowed adult conversations and mass media to impact some of the youngest in our society. Parents have been forced …

ALLERGIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS.

Spring – with its budding trees, flowering plants, and warm temperatures, yields high humidity, invading pollen, sneezing, coughing, watery eyes, and a headache which lingers day and night; welcome to seasonal allergies. Beyond the physical pain and discomfort, there is a connection between allergy symptoms and mental health. The stuffy nose, sneezing, and watery eyes …

School Shootings

How do you go back to school in a place of bloodshed? This is an unanswered question appearing in newspapers, magazines, online, and across social media platforms. Parents and students in Florida have a long recovery ahead of them. “The shooting activated students’ ‘fight, flight, freeze’ response, said trauma therapist Susanne Babbel, Ph.D. Those children …