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“It’s important to validate whatever feelings they have, and make sure you show you understand their feelings,” Young says.
Explaining that bushfires and other disasters are scary even for adults can acknowledge children’s feelings without dismissing them. Coming from a position of strength is also important, she says, to demonstrate that there are many people who can help people be safe in the event of a bushfire.
“What books do, and any reading, is it normalises [an experience], presents this as something that happens to lots of people,” Young says. Reading may not just be about bushfires, but any trauma or disaster. “This can allow children to ask questions and stimulate conversation.”
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So you want to look trimmer, be smarter, and successful next year? You strive to exercise and call your friends more, and spend less?
You are not alone. New Year s resolutions are as ubiquitous as they are difficult to keep. Does it even make sense to set such lofty goals for the new year, hoping anew each January first that this time really is the charm?
Any motivational researcher would have ambivalent feelings about New Year s resolutions, says Richard Ryan, an international expert on motivational research and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Rochester. The evidence shows that most of the time people aren t successful at them.