This is a stressful time. You have to take care of yourself in order to support your children.

You're not alone

Millions of people have the same fears as us. Look for someone you can talk to about how you're feeling. Listen to them. Avoid social media that can make you feel panicked.

Pause to relax

We all need a break once in a while. When your kids are asleep, do something fun and relaxing for you. Make a list of healthy activities that YOU like to do. You deserve it!

Listen to your Children

Be open and listen to your children. They will seek you in search of comfort and support. Listen...

All children eventually misbehide. This is normal when they are tired, hungry, afraid, or learning to be more independent. And they can drive you crazy when they're trapped in the house!

Redirect

• Notice each bad behavior in advance and redirect your children's attention from bad to good behavior.
• Stop before it starts! When they start to get restless, you can distract them with something interesting or fun: "Let's take a walk!"

Stop for a moment

• Are you about to freak out? Give yourself 10 seconds. Inhale and exhale paused five times. Then try to react more calmly.
• Millions of...

COVID-19 messed up our daily work routine, at home and at school. This is difficult for children, teenagers and also for you. Creating new routines can help.

Create a firm but flexible daily routine

• Set up a schedule for you and your kids with time for planned activities and also free time. This can help children feel safer and behave better.
• Children or adolescents can help plan the routine of the day – how to make a school timesheet.
• They'll follow this better if they help them do it.

Teach children how to keep safe distances

• If everything is OK in your nation, take the kids for...

It's hard to feel positive when our kids and teens are driving us crazy. Generally, we end up saying "stop it!", but children are much more to do what we ask if we give them positive instructions and thousands of congratulations for what they did right.

Speak the behavior you want to see

Use positive words when telling your child what to do, such as, "Get your clothes out of here, please?!" (instead of 'Don't make a mess!')

It's all in the way you talk

Yelling at your kids will just make you and them more stressed and upset. So, to get your children's attention, call them by their names...

Adolescence is characterized by the passage from childhood to adulthood. At this stage, it is totally normal and common for children to be likely to live new experiences outside the family environment. They want to build their own identity. They want to join a group, they want to socialize.

And it's totally natural for them to leave their homes to see this new world that lies ahead of them. But it is very important that parents can understand that although physically they are well grown, they are still developing the part of the brain that is responsible for decision-making, called the...

Can't you go to work? Are the schools closed? Worried about money? It's normal to feel stressed and overwhelmed.

School closures also represent the chance to build better relationships with children and adolescents.

Time for an eye-to-eye chat: it's fun and for free. It makes children feel loved and safe and shows how important they are.

Separate a specific time for each child.

It could only be 20 minutes or even more – it's up to us. Doing at the same time each day will generate expectation in children and adolescents.

Ask your children what they would like to do.

Choosing builds self...

With many drug users dealing with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, coronavirus isolation presents an unprecedented challenge.

With the advancement of isolation measures to try to contain the new coronavirus, some illegal drug users have started to stock up on their preferred substance to avoid shortages during the period when they cannot leave their homes.

But the consequences could be devastating, warn experts concerned that they could adopt riskier habits — such as using drugs they are unfamiliar with or abstinence, which can be dangerous if left unchecked.

As...

By Decree No. 10,282 of March 2, 2020, in articles I and II of Art. 3, the activities and services performed by the Therapeutic Communities are considered essential and, therefore, it is important to guide coronavirus prevention and clarify how chemical dependents should be welcomed in these institutions.

Thinking about it, the National Secretariat for Drug Care and Prevention - SENAPRED, in partnership with the Ministry of Citizenship, published a guidebook directed to the work of therapeutic communities,addressing information about the virus, its symptoms, its transmission and preventive...

Dr. Joo Paulo Lotufo, paediatrician, member of the Smoking Commission of the Brazilian Medical Association, director of ISSUP Brazil and partner of Freemind, this video provides facts and advice on the relationship between coronavirus and smoking.

A study published in late February 2020 by the Chinese Medical Journal evaluated 78 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, of whom 14.1% evolved with worsening of their condition and 85.9% stabilized or improved.

With this follow-up, they achieved the following complication factors of pneumonia:

- The age of over 60 increases the risk of the case...