Family Life: DVDs & Videos
Resilience Video
Building resilience helps prepare kids for school and life! Resilience helps us bounce back when we fall down and keeps us going when times get tough. Building resilience skills in young children helps them face challenges with positivity and perseverance. Resilience involves a few key ingredients, including one that might surprise you. Sesame Street in Communities brings free video with furry Muppet friends as they help children and the adults in their lives reach their highest potential. Watch the short video to learn more. (R is for Resilience - YouTube).
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Confident Parenting in Recovery DVD
Confident Parenting in Recovery, from Hazelden Publishing, offers advice and tools from educators, counselors, and parents who have unique perspectives because they too have struggled with the same parenting challenges in their recovery journey. Topics include:
- Discovering your parenting style
- Exploring stages of child development
- Setting limits
- Addressing trauma experienced by children of parents with addictions
- Teaching better behavior through motivational strategies
This DVD is ideal for a variety of settings including treatment centers, mental health centers, and correctional facilities. This video series can help those in early recovery overcome some of the basic challenges of recovery and increase their chances of living a healthy life.
"The Words We Choose to Use"
This animated video examines the language, patterns of thought, and messaging that can either hold back or support the vision for a system that focuses on strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
"Giving Mothers and Baby's a Healthy Start by Engaging Dads"
Grief
Sesame Street in Communities brings free video content of everyone's favorite, furry Muppet friends as they help children and the adults in their lives reach their highest potential. Grover and the gang will tackle a variety of topics that face children in the areas of health and well-being, school readiness, and emotional well-being. Some of the content and topics presented are more sensitive, so you should preview these videos before sharing with a child.
Social Media & Your Child’s Mental Health:
What the Research Says
Social media plays an important role in the lives of many tweens and teens. More than one-third (35%) of 13- 17-year-olds reported using social media sites such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook "almost constantly" in 2022. And while many social media platforms set a minimum age of 13 to sign up, 38% of kids ages 8-12 say they have used social media.
All this media use can influence young people in a variety of ways. And with a reported rise in depression and anxiety among teens, you may wonder how social media may impact your child's mental health. Research suggests it depends on how they use it. Understanding potential connections between social media and mental health can help you guide your kids toward healthy social media habits. Check this video out to learn more.