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Strengthening Family Connections Tips

The document provides tips from school counselors on how to stay connected with children during difficult times. It recommends being intentional about connecting by stopping to listen and validate feelings. It suggests showing grace to oneself and family through adjusting expectations and forgiving mistakes. Specific activities are listed to connect through nature, oneself, and others such as going to local trails, journaling, bonding over games, and using conversation resources. The overall message is that challenging times can be gotten through by strengthening connections.

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Strengthening Family Connections Tips

The document provides tips from school counselors on how to stay connected with children during difficult times. It recommends being intentional about connecting by stopping to listen and validate feelings. It suggests showing grace to oneself and family through adjusting expectations and forgiving mistakes. Specific activities are listed to connect through nature, oneself, and others such as going to local trails, journaling, bonding over games, and using conversation resources. The overall message is that challenging times can be gotten through by strengthening connections.

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Keeping the Connection:

Helping You and Your Child


Stay Connected
RBUSD Counseling Team
Hello! We are…
Kimberly Pappas, School Counselor

Joyce Stout, School Counselor

Kendra Canham, School Counseling Intern

Natalie Shuck, School Psychologist


Being Intentional
● It’s okay to not be okay, we are not always fine. Information and
circumstances are ever changing. This can be hard!
● Break the routine of everyday life, take a moment to be
intentional
● Stop, look, and listen
● Validate the feelings you hear, remember that all feelings are ok
● Model how to communicate your feelings and how you cope
with them
Grace: Courteous Goodwill
● Getting by and getting through stronger and connected

● Having grace with ourselves and our families’

relationships

● Be willing to adjust for realistic expectations, forgive

moments of lapse in good behavior or mistakes

● Be supportive of what each family member needs in the

moment
Connecting to Nature
Spending just 20 minutes a day outside can lower your stress hormones!
● PV Trails-Lookout points
● Drive up the hill-scenic drive
● The Strand
● The Esplanade
● South Coast Botanic Garden-Fee entry and reservations required
● Madrona Marsh-Free open
● Walk in your neighborhood-Nature Challenge (Take 4 pics of nature
on your walk)
● Starlight walk by the beach
● Starlight drive up to PV to a lookout point
● Trying scrap gardening
Connecting with Yourself
● Check in on yourself daily
● Allowing yourself to experience the range of emotions you may be
feeling
● Practicing mindfulness
● Journaling
● Disconnecting with technology
○ Start out small

● Model these skills for your children


○ It’s okay to take time for yourself!
Connecting to Others
● Make your moments with others meaningful
● Quality > Quantity of Interactions
● Conversation Starter Tool Resources
○ “Our Moments Families” on Amazon, Q&U app

● Bonding Activities (e.g., virtual activities, virtual book club, board


games, experimenting with recipes, virtual lunch with a friend)
● Snail Mail Cards/Letters
● South Bay Families Connected Parent Resources
○ RBUSD Website → Parents and Student Resources → Social-Emotional Resources
This is a very challenging time for all, but
there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We
encourage you to pick one of the strategies
to try in order to help you strengthen your
connections.

Thank you for listening!

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