https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story--1056-.htm Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:22:41 PDT Updated every 10 minutes - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY Copyright: (C) Castanet.net https://www.castanet.net/rss/ https://www.castanet.net/main_images/logos/KelownaLogos/Castanet_Logo.jpg https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story--1056-.htm https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/149000/Bullying-in-perspective https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/149000/Bullying-in-perspective Tue, 06 Oct 2015 05:00:00 PDT Contributed The older I get, and the more years I spend helping kids and teens struggling in the school system, the more enlightened I have become about many aspects of student life. In particular, the widespread and deep damage that can be caused by bullying at school is more important than I ever realized... https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/147171/I-don-t-want-to-go-to-school https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/147171/I-don-t-want-to-go-to-school Mon, 07 Sep 2015 05:00:00 PDT Contributed It is completely normal for any child (or teen, for that matter) to be nervous about returning to school, as I went into detail about in my last column. If you have a son or daughter who is less than enthusiastic about starting school again, rest assured this is very unlikely to be any kind of state... https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/146369/Back-to-school-anxiety https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/146369/Back-to-school-anxiety Mon, 24 Aug 2015 05:00:00 PDT Contributed We are only a few short days from school starting up again, and those long, hot days of summer 2015 becoming a memory, rather than a present reality. I am sure we can all remember as children how much we wished summer could have just kept right on going into September and beyond, with the sun stayin... https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/145566/Making-your-teen-disappear https://www.castanet.net/news/Youth-Family-Dispatch/145566/Making-your-teen-disappear Mon, 10 Aug 2015 05:00:00 PDT Contributed There is a question to which everyone has an answer, whether they realize it or not. Here is the question: who are the people in your life with whom you feel safest? If we know that safety is actually a feeling of comfort, then we can ask the question a different way: who in your life do you feel...