“Expressive Arts is a discipline of helping and healing that uses the arts as its basis for discovery and change. All five disciplines of the arts: visual, dance, music, theater, and writing can give you a richer vocabulary to work, play and grow a life you love living.”
Maybe your kids still do a really good job of going to bed around 10 PM over the summer and there’s no qualms there. But if you haven’t set any kind of schedule for their morning routines and school is about to begin again!
I teach an executive functioning class to incoming sixth graders at my private school. One of the things we focus on is study skills; being organized and learning how to study are extremely important. I asked all the teachers in my middle school, some parents and some students what they felt we needed to teach them when they entered into sixth grade and how to actually study and organize themselves was top of the list!
Being a psychologist has many facets and there are so many shapes and sizes of them.
I am so not ready to have a healthy bedtime routine again. I love summer, even if we’ve all had a raging hot summer down here in Texas and to be honest I’m not ready for school to start. Regardless, time passes and we have to start changing our mindset back to alarm clocks, breakfasts, morning routines that don’t bring you to tears, pre-made lunches and homework assignments.