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“March in New England” offers us two important lessons to help ease our pandemic pain and struggle.

Feel like you’ve hit a wall? Or better described - the floor? You are not alone. We. Are. Struggling. The past week and a half, I’ve been inundated with parents reaching out for help - for themselves and for their children. Suddenly, things that were tolerable are now at a peak, or on another level. Hopelessness, self harm and thoughts or intentions of suicide are not far-off concerns - they are realities. Realities in homes in your neighborhood. Realities of people around y

Anger is a normal human emotion that gets a bad rap. It is often seen as something to suppress as it can get expressed in destructive ways. Unhealthy expression of anger is when anger is turned inwardly and the resulting behaviour hurts you or when anger is expressed outwardly in a way that hurts others. It’s very important to note that anger is also considered a secondary emotion. This means that we become angry right after we have felt another primary emotion which we are u

I feel so incredibly strongly that someday we will look back as parents and educators and realize how lockdown drills and active shooter drills traumatize our children, with no actual benefit. Just like smacking knuckles or palms with a ruler decades ago, the goal was to help shape behavior, but was ultimately more damaging to children. Children across the world, and especially in our little town of Wilton, have been traumatized in small and big ways over the last eight month

The Body Talk. The Coronavirus pandemic has caused our kids to miss out on so many milestones and rights of passage. For our town’s fifth graders, they are missing out on the “body” movie and talk that one of my daughters refers to as the “deodorant talk for boys” and the “period talk for girls.” More importantly, we parents are missing out on this important “nudge” opportunity to raise these topics with our kids. For so many reasons, it’s critical that we parents share age a