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Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s 28 Day February Special

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We are half way through Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s February Special of 28 LIFE-CHANGING POSTS IN 28 DAYS!! Thanks for your feedback so far. You still have time to choose the topics covered. Let us know.

Asperger’s & Autism Anxiety

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Students with Asperger’s or autism commonly experience anxiety. They can be overwhelmed by the world around them. Many have sensory problems in which they feel, hear, and see more sharply. For example a doorbell might sound like a cannon and a clothing label may feel like a porcupine. This can easily lead to stress.

Slowing down, limiting stimuli, and training to better handle sensory stimulation can make a big difference for people with these challenges research suggests. In future Y3K Tutor In Your Home Blog posts, we will offer advice on how to limit stimuli at home by creating a calming environment and how to better deal with situations traditionally over-stimulating such as at a theater. If you have suggestions of what did or did not work for your child, please share with us so that we may post to help thousands of parent readers.

Contracts & Fine Print

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Teach your kids that in life as an adult one must read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print gives and the small print takes away. At Y3K Tutor In Your Home however, you don’t have to worry about this since there are never any contracts to sign or long-term commitments to be made.

Helping Children Cope After a Tramatic News Event

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In response to a traumatic news event (such as a school shooting tragedy), many children may have questions and concerns. Y3K Tutor In Your Home offers the following suggestions to help guide parents and caring adults to best support children who may be grieving, concerned, or troubled by a terrible event:

Be Supportive

Children will benefit greatly from support and caring expressed by the adults in their lives. Create an environment in your home that encourages respect for each other’s feelings and fears, and allows for a supportive, healing environment.

Be Available

Let children know that you are available to talk with them.

Let children ask questions.

It is ok if you do not have answers to all the questions. It is ok to let your child know that you do not have the answer but that you will try and find out.

Be Caring

Let children know about the support being provided to students, friends, and families of the victims.

Be aware of children who may have experienced a previous trauma and may be more vulnerable to experiencing prolonged or intense reactions and will need extra support.

Be Reassuring

Acknowledge the frightening parts of the event.

Explain what happened in words that children understand. Explanations should be appropriate to the child’s age, developmental stage, and language skills.

Reassure children that they are loved and will be taken care of.

Children who have concerns about siblings who are living on a college campus or have concerns about safety at their own school should be reassured and their concerns validated.

Be Thoughtful

Be aware of how you talk about the event and cope with the tragedy.

Children learn about how to react to traumatic situations by watching and listening to parents, peers, and the media.

Reduce or eliminate your child’s exposure to television images and news coverage of the shooting. The frightening images and repetition of the scenes can be disturbing for children. If they do see coverage, be sure to talk with them about what they saw and what they understood about the coverage. Make sure to correct any misunderstanding or misinterpretations.

Maintain your child’s routines as best as possible.

Be Creative

For children who are too young to talk or do not feel comfortable talking about their feelings, expressive techniques such as play, art and music can provide additional ways for children to express their feelings and let you know what may be troubling them.

It might be difficult for them to grasp exactly what the situation is all about, but you should try your best to enable them to understand these things in their own way.

Many behaviors and symptoms of stress are normal for children who have just experienced a trauma. However, if you find that your child is preoccupied with the event, has ongoing sleep or eating disturbances, is experiencing intrusive thoughts or worries, is focused on fears about death, or is having difficulty going to school and leaving parents, your child should be evaluated by a mental health professional. Contact your pediatrician or school counselor if you feel that the symptoms are persisting and are interfering with your child’s daily routines.

Save A Dog – Sudbury MA

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Y3K Tutor In Your Home has donated to yet another great cause. Save A Dog of Sudbury, MA will be running their Annual Benefit Auction. Look for the Y3K Tutor In Your Home auction donation at the event. We hope you will bid on our Sudbury tutoring and test prep services along with other fine items to help these dogs in need.

Save A Dog’s mission is to help adoptable, friendly dogs find permanent homes in the New England area. Many of their dogs require above-the-ordinary medical attention before they can go home. Private donations and fundraisers are their only source of funding. Y3K Tutor In Your Home and Save A Dog would greatly appreciate your support at their up coming auction.

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