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TQS Book Club Topic #2: Helping Children Identify Emotions

When is the last time you sat down and tried to describe the emotions you were feeling, either by saying them out loud or writing them down? 

Perhaps you keep a journal. Or perhaps you openly speak about how you feel to a spouse or a friend. Or maybe you are one to simply keep your emotions to yourself. 

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Welcome to the TQS Book Club! Topic #1: Executive Functioning

As a parent of a child with special needs, the head of the nation’s premier school for children with complex challenges, an author, and a bibliophile, I often come across such books -- resources that I know can help families support their children, and that can help children become self-advocates. 

Because I am often asked for these book recommendations from friends, families, and colleagues, I’m excited to announce the start of the TQS Book Club: a series of blog posts that will introduce books, authors, and resources aimed at helping families of children with complex challenges shine. 

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Safe, Socially-Distanced Activities for Kids with Complex Challenges

Back in the 1970s, a comic artist came up with the perfect visualization of someone who sits around and watches a lot of television: couch potato. The reasoning? If a person spends too much time passively watching a screen, they can become more vegetable-like than human. 

Fast-forward 50 years -- smack into the middle of a global pandemic that is keeping everyone indoors and on screens -- and the term still hits home hard. Most people have grown more sedentary, more isolated, and more attached to technology over the past year, to the point where it feels like we’re literally rooted in place. 

This time of screens and social isolation has been hard on everyone, but it is especially difficult for children with complex challenges.