Hero of Hope – Day Seven

by Dr Peggy on May 13, 2012


Hero Activity Seven

Spend the day with your children and tell them how very much you love them. Tell them how amazing they are. Tell them how proud you are of them. Tell them you cannot imagine the world without them in it. Care for their mental health the whole entire day! Thank you heroes.

Hero of Hope – Day Six

by Dr Peggy on May 12, 2012


Hero Activity Six

Tweet, post your Facebook status, blog, talk – use whatever means you have to make other people as aware about the issue of childhood trauma as you are. Do it now! Do it often! Do it to “care for the mental health of all children.”

Hero of Hope – Day Five

May 11, 2012

Hero Activity Five Care for the mental health of all children and work to prevent child sexual abuse. Go through the Stewards of Children training from Darkness to Light. More information here.

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Hero of Hope – Day four

May 10, 2012

Hero Activity Four LEARN. This is a day to be a hero by doing something for yourself. Most of us don’t have a clue what children deal with in today’s society. We know about our own kids or our own family, but even that is censored by our children and we only get a part [...]

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Hero of Hope – Day Three

May 9, 2012

Hero Activity Three When you are driving in the car with the kids in the carpool, LISTEN. If you are like most parents you try to drown out the din from the backseat. You are also trying very hard not to be the eavesdropping Momma. So, you tune it all out. Today, listen instead. When [...]

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Hero of Hope – Day Two

May 8, 2012

Hero Activity Two We know you were inspired by your first hero activity, so you are ready to move on to bigger and better things. Let’s start at home today. Take the time to read your kids the excerpts from Brad Meltzer’s book “Heros for My Son.” You can find the link here. Now your [...]

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How you can be a Hero of Hope.

May 7, 2012

May 9th is National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day! Actually, it’s National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week! In case you don’t know what that is, there is a post all about it on our main website blog. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) began this event in 1994 with the goal of [...]

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Trayvon Martin and “The Talk” in Black and White

April 10, 2012

I made the decision to repeat this post here, as well as on the main Underdue Social Services Blog. It seems like that important a topic. but in addition to the content from the first post, I have included some resources at the end that parents can use to have these very important conversations with [...]

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Talk Now

March 27, 2012

I suspect every parent has planned to have a “talk” with their teenager. You imagine how the two of you will sit down and have a long conversation about some very important topic. This usually comes up when either your teenager has done something really bad or you are afraid they might. Or the news [...]

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Text Dating

February 27, 2012

I suspect most parents are pretty clear about their rules when it comes to dating behavior and their teenagers and pre-teens. What age can you “go out” on a date? Do you need to “meet” the boy or girl before the date? What is curfew? Text Dating? We know that technology has changed everything, but [...]

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