Here are six ways, according to licensed psychologist Dr. Kensa Gunter, parents, families, and LL volunteers, can help guide young athletes during their most formative years.
It makes sense to try to shield kids from difficult feelings but it is only natural to teach them how to deal with such emotions and process them. Experts share their expert tips for helping your child in handling their anger and other feelings.
psychologist. kids emotions, 34% of caregivers of military youth 11 to 14 say the children were experiencing moderate to high levels of emotional behavioral problems. that compares to 19% of a national sample of youth. what s your advice for parents as kids and teens move into the rebellious years? a lot of the emotional difficulties have to do with anxiety especially around the deployment of one of the parents. and so my advice to the parents are, you have to be role models. the parent who is home has to be strong emotionally. they have to show the child that they re willing to talk about what it feels like to have that spouse out of the home, but most importantly, they have to get counseling. by doing that they re showing the child there is something you can do about this instead of suffering emotionally. kelly, we want our kids to grow up to be kids but for kids in this kind of situation with the hardest part of deployment they say is helping the parent at home deal and then als
jobless rate is more than twice that. oh christine, we talk so much about the unemployment rate and our economy, but you re right, for young combat veterans coming home from war, young men aged 18 to 25, who finished their service to the country, the picture is very grim. they are facing a staggering unemployment rate, 21.9% according to the bureau of labor statistics. it s caught the attention of senator patty murray, chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee. have a listen to what she has to say about this. we have invested billions of dollars in training our young men and women with new skills to protect our nation only to ignore that investment and them when they leave the military. for too long at the end of their career we pat our veterans on the back for their service and push them out into the job market alone. murray has introduced the hiring heros act of 2011. it s an effort to try to ensure as they leave the military they get job training, assistance