STRATEGIES TO RESPOND TO PEER PRESSURE
First, Let's Define Peer Pressure
Peer pressure is easily defined. It is that compelling influence to act or look like those of our sa...
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SCHOOL COUNSELOR RESPONSE TO PEER PRESSURE
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. ...
SELF-CARE AMIDST COVID-19
This time in our history with COVID-19 and this time in my life with my husband’s illness help me to remember the important things. Whe...
OUR ROLE IN CONNECTING SELF-CARE AND SELF-IMAGE
As mentioned in the previous blog, “It’s easier to build a child than to repair an adult.” Yet, we are the children who become adults. ...
THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR’S ROLE IN BUILDING CHILDREN
While we are doing this repair work for ourselves, as school counselors, we can help our children and teenagers do it right for the fir...
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL COUNSELOR PROGRAM ACTIVITY
This post provides an activity for your Comprehensive School Counselor Program. You can practice for yourself as well as with the stude...
STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT’S SELF-IMAGE AND ATTITUDE: STORIES THAT TEACH
Have you ever wondered why some people turn heads when they enter a room? Because they are the most beautiful or magnificent? Then, why...
CONTINUING RESPONSE TO THE SELF-IMAGE WAR
Most of us have been watching others participate as well as participating ourselves in the “beauty war”. In our grief of “ugliness”, we...
RESPONSE TO THE SELF-IMAGE WAR: BEGINNING WITH BODY IMAGE
Self-Image is one of the most recognized problems in our pre-teenagers. They are going through many hormone changes that cause them to ...
A LIFE WELL LIVED: SCATTERING GOODNESS AND KINDNESS
This is an old story, but one that is so important to us as School Counselors - to remember to scatter kindness and goodness in our sch...