Sesame Workshop Debuts Resources to Support Military Families with Learning and Growing Together sesameworkshop.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sesameworkshop.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BETHESDA, Md. — Life may have an abundance of distractions for everyone. Add the unique situations that those in the military or medical field face and it can be overwhelming.
DoD Launches Website for Military Kids military.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from military.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Children have had an especially rough time since March 2020.
COVID-19 largely took away their schooling, in-person relationships with friends and fellow students, their teachers, extracurricular activities, and any semblance of a normal life. It gave them worried parents and iffy internet connections for school - and for game playing or other fun uses.
And for the almost 2 million kids of activity-duty families, already saddled with the burden of frequent moves, it gave them more emotional instability. There has been more of a demand for mental health services as military kids are coping with the pandemic, said Kelly Blasko, a research psychologist and lead for the mHealth Clinical Integration Connected Health Branch with the Defense Health Agency (DHA). Depending on the age, military kids are experiencing anxiety, depression and behavioral concerns.
U S Department of Defense (via Public) / DOD Commemorates Month of the Military Child publicnow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publicnow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.