Edmonton Support Group - February 2022

February – Guest Speaker Gail Poffenroth (Veteran Roots Mom & Roots Facilitator)

We work hard to make sure our kids know their times tables and know how to spell and know where the country of Eritrea is, but we often overlook the importance of addressing instruction in the area of emotional health and more specifically of developing the quality/virtue of resilience.  Now more than ever before, home schooling parents need to consider how to teach a child the skills and knowledge that is needed to cope with the emotional challenges that arise in a world where lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates, lawlessness, antisemitism and antiChristian violence (just to name a few) create daily opportunities for kids to experience high levels of stress and even trauma.  Because of the world we now live in, raising an awareness that helping our kids learn how to recognize, manage and/or respond to the emotions of…