![]() ![]() USA TODAY editor shares advice after her mother's death by suicide. You can talk about suicidal thoughts and depression. Knowing all of these things in terms of how the brain works is why we can create programs to make it stronger, healthier, more resilient. So you want to be able to have your children mimic something that's actually productive. You hang out with people who are aggressive, you'll become aggressive. ![]() Laughter is contagious. If you hang out with angry people, you're going to be angry. You talk about emotions being contagious, what do you mean by that? Instead of being judgmental, we can be part of a conversation. So we have to (join in) with our children so we can show what our opinion is. You know, wondering a little bit about her costumes (laughing). She had a wonderful voice. I just wanted her to know that I was involved in watching Madonna and praising her for her talent. I remember when Katie (daughter Kate Hudson) was growing up and Madonna was everything. They might learn that that's a way to get problems solved, you know, rather than hate and pushing and ugliness and name-calling. If we could create a community of trust and faith and joy in a classroom, gee, I think they might take it outside. And the research actually showed children were able to work better together. It really helps everyone create more joy in the classroom, more connectivity. I do believe that these programs help educators as well. It's creating something that you do because it matters for your well-being in the classroom. ![]() With all the pressure teachers are under, how do you persuade them to add one more thing to their classes?Īctually, it is not adding one more thing. The most important thing that we have to do, among a few other important things, is teach children how to listen, how to behave, how to feel better, to understand that the brain has plasticity and that we have the ability to be and do the things that we might want to do, because that's what we're gonna tell our brain. Surgeon General: Our kids' mental health is as critical as their grades. They just have to clear out things so they can feel it. They don't know how to access the various things that basically they can in order to succeed in order to actually feel better, to have a sense of resilience and optimism on some level, or be able to reach down into an area where they know that joy does live inside of them. What is going on with kids why do we need programs like this?Ĭhildren are asked to use their brain. Here is some of our conversation, edited for length and clarity. I talked with Hawn about stress and solutions at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. That is the state of youth mental health in America." Now imagine about 450 of them saying they are persistently sad or hopeless, 200 saying they’ve seriously considered suicide, and nearly 100 saying they’ve tried to end their own life over the past year. "Imagine a high school with 1,000 students. "Since the pandemic began, anxiety, depression, loneliness and negative emotions and behaviors have increased among young people," he wrote. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy sounded the alarm in a column for USA TODAY Opinion. The problem has only exploded since then. Hawn was worried about kids' mental health 20 years ago. ![]()
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