Advice For Those Feeling Scared and Alone Today …

Adults, please review with your children. I hope this helps.

In disclosure, I am not a parent.

When I was a Special Education teacher who also worked with kids in group homes and the foster care system, however, I dealt with a great deal of fear.

There was the fear on the part of my students, many of whom came from broken families and had not yet mastered the skills to be away from them for hours at a time, and there was the fear on the part of the teachers and other professional team members who were not always sure of the most effective ways to calm their charges’ frequently difficult and complex emotions.

It is easy to forget that we were kids too, once.

Parents, you may want to ask yourselves, “What made me feel better back then?”

We’ll go from there.