The Charlotte Jewish News - September 2012 - Page 11
Jewish Family Services
Welcome Back to School Programs at Jewish Family Services
The hot summer days are still
here, but for many families,
sehool is baek in session or getting
ready to start. Now is the perfeet
time to work on getting your fam
ily baek into routines to prepare
for a sueeessful sehool year.
To help prepare young bodies
and minds for the demands of
sehool, adequate sleep, proper
nutrition and struetured routines
are neeessary. The same holds true
for parents. This fall, Jewish
Family Serviees is pleased to
offer programming for parents,
ehildren, families, and seniors.
Find out more about all of our
programs and serviees at
www.j fseharlotte. org.
Adequate Sleep
Laek of adequate sleep eon-
tributes to more diffieulty fune-
tioning and keeping up with the
multiple demands of sehool, work,
home and extraeurrieular aetivi-
ties.
Read this month’s Counselor
Comer (www.jfseharlotte.org) by
JFS Child and Adoleseent
Therapist Libby Rains to find out
more.
Proper Nutrition
Long sehool days often mean
ehildren eome home “starving.”
It’s too early for dinner but you
don’t want them to fill up on junk
food. Start the new sehool year off
right by rethinking your meaning
of afternoon snaeks. Rather than
potato ehips, think fresh earrots
and nuts; replaee sweet snaeks
with fresh fiuit. When shopping
for baek-to-sehool snaeks for your
family, please eonsider purehasing
a little extra to donate to the JFS
food pantry. Many of our elients
reeeive free or redueed luneh at
sehool but are not able to afford
snaeks at home. Due to spaee lim
itations, we eannot aeeept fresh
fruit and vegetables, but other
healthy snaeks are greatly appreei-
ated.
Get Moving
Physieal aetivity is as important
as adequate sleep and proper
nutrition for people of all ages.
Professionals may disagree on
exaetly how mueh exereise is
enough, but they all agree that
keeping moving ereates and main
tains healthier bodies. Start your
baek-to-sehool exereise routine by
signing up for the JFS Friends
Run on November 11. Gather your
friends, your family, your neigh
bors or your dog, set your goals,
and start moving. Run in the ehal-
lenging ehip-timed 5k or in the
less-eompetitive one-mile walk/
ran. You will be helping yourself
as well as the elients of JFS. Visit
www.FriendsRun.eom.
Fall Programming: JFS
Parenting Place Child and
Adolescent Programming
Love and Logief Parenting
Classes Begin in October
Are you raising the eaptain of
the debate team? Wondering if
your kids will EVER listen to
you? Feel exhausted at the end of
the day?
Join JFS and Love and Logie®
Faeilitator Wendy Petrieoff to
leam easy-to-use parenting teeh-
niques to help put the fun baek
into parenting. You will learn
praetieal tips and skills to avoid
ing arguments with your ehildren,
diseover ways to share eontrol,
and arm yourself with all the Love
& Logie® tools you need to be an
effeetive parent.
Social Skills Groups for Boys
Boys ages 9-12 will work on
building and maintaining friend
ships by partieipating in this falFs
Soeial Skills Group, beginning
Thursday, September 20.
Soeial Skills groups are ideal
for ehildren who straggle with
soeial and emotional regulation,
experienee problems making and
keeping friends, have diffieulty
eooperating with peers and adults,
or present underlying develop
ment delays or lagging skills.
Utilizing interaetive play, ehil
dren will be assisted with develop
ing skills that help with overall
soeial and emotional regulation
abilities skills.
Friendly PEERsuasion Group
for Girls
JFS is pleased to offer a new
eurrieulum speeifieally for tween
and teen girls beginning Oetober
10.
JFS elinieal therapists will use
the Friendly PEERsuasion eur
rieulum to build partieipants’
knowledge and skills for resisting
Counselor’s Corner
By JFS Child & Adolescent ther
apy Libby Rains
Just 15 More Minutes?!
To help prepare young bodies
and minds for the demands of
sehool, adequate sleep and strae-
tured routines are neeessary. The
same holds true for parents.
Often I find that ehildren are
not obtaining an adequate amount
of sleep whieh eontributes to
more diffieulty funetioning and
keeping up with the multiple
demands of sehool, home, and
extraeurrieular aetivities.
The National Sleep Foundation
reeommends the following sleep
tips:
* Establish eonsistent sleep and
wake sehedules, even on week
ends
* Create a regular, relaxing
bedtime routine sueh as soaking
in a hot bath or listening to sooth
ing musie - begin an hour or more
before the time you expeet to fall
asleep
* Create a sleep-eondueive
environment that is dark, quiet,
eomfortable, and eool
* Sleep on a eomfortable mat
tress and pillows
* Keep “sleep stealers” out of
the bedroom - avoid watehing
TV, using a eomputer, or reading
in bed
* Finish eating at least 2-3
hours before your regular bedtime
* Exereise regularly during the
day or at least a few hours before
bedtime
* Avoid eaffeine and aleohol
produets elose to bedtime and
give up smoking ^
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negative peer pressure by empow
ering them to identify what they
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eonsequenees. Partieipants then
determine healthy alternatives and
invite peers to join them in aeting
on their smarter ehoiee.
All groups and elasses are open
to the publie, ineluding new par
tieipants. Fees apply to some pro
grams. Please eall JFS to register.
Other JFS Events in
September
Caregiver Support Group
Tuesday, September 11, 6 PM,
JFS
Have You Answered the Call?
Thank you to the families who
have already made their donations
and pledges to this year’s Family
to Family eampaign. JFS volun
teers will eontinue to make ealls
throughout the eampaign to ask
for your support and answer any
questions you may have.
Your tax-deduetible gift to the
2012 Family to Family annual
eampaign gives you and your fam
ily the opportunity to join JFS in
ensuring stability, dignity and
eompassion to all members of our
eommunity for generations to
eome.
If you have questions about JFS
or the annual eampaign, please
eontaet us at 704-364-6594.
Donations are eurrently being
aeeepted online at www.j fsehar
lotte.org. ^
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