Kid Esteem Center for Social Learning

Don't 'solve' it for them!!!

This is said so beautifully!

Happy Weekend! We hope you are all doing reasonably well during this time, and can take some bonding and relationship-building opportunities with your families that may not have been possible two months ago... We are looking forward to getting back together again soon in this new era of social distancing!... Here is our current status and thinking regarding: * Spring Session 2020 * Individual Play and Family Therapy Sessions with Dr. Lee: Existing Saturday Morning Social Skills and Afternoon Teen Social Skills Groups Our last meeting on 3/14 was Week 9 of the ten week Winter Session. If we are not able to continue with an abbreviated Spring Session, beginning by mid-May at the latest, we will close out the Winter Session with 2 Saturday meetings, if current trends allow, toward the end of June, and then start our Summer Session on July 11. New Spring 2020 Groups If we are not able to continue with an abbreviated Spring Session, beginning by mid-May at the latest, we will look toward our Summer Session, starting on July 8. If you have already registered for Spring 2020, you can apply your deposit to Summer 2020. We will give you 20% off all future fees if you choose to do that. You may of course request a full refund. Individual Play / Family Therapy with Dr. Lee Existing clients and families can engage in online Zoom/Skype sessions with Dr. Lee in whatever capacity convenience and resources allow, until we are able to safely meet again in person at our Commack office. You can pay for sessions online, with a credit card, or mail monthly checks. Sessions will be offered and conducted for an initial 20 minutes at $50, and then $20 for each additional 10 minutes. Please call 631-321-6675 or text 631-792-3241 to make an appointment or ask any questions. Thank you, and let's all try to take the opportunity to evolve as social beings during this time!

Letter from Covid-19 to Humans" "Stop. Just stop. It is no longer a request. It is a mandate. We will help you. We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-g...o-round to a halt We will stop the planes the trains the schools the malls the meetings the frenetic, furied rush of illusions and obligations that keep you from hearing our single and shared beating heart, the way we breathe together, in unison. Our obligation is to each other, As it has always been, even if, even though, you have forgotten. We will interrupt this broadcast, the endless cacophonous broadcast of divisions and distractions, to bring you this long-breaking news: We are not well. None of us; all of us are suffering. Last year, the firestorms that scorched the lungs of the earth did not give you pause. Nor the typhoons in Africa,China, Japan. Nor the fevered climates in Japan and India. You have not been listening. It is hard to listen when you are so busy all the time, hustling to uphold the comforts and conveniences that scaffold your lives. But the foundation is giving way, buckling under the weight of your needs and desires. We will help you. We will bring the firestorms to your body We will bring the fever to your body We will bring the burning, searing, and flooding to your lungs that you might hear: We are not well. Despite what you might think or feel, we are not the enemy. We are Messenger. We are Ally. We are a balancing force. We are asking you: To stop, to be still, to listen; To move beyond your individual concerns and consider the concerns of all; To be with your ignorance, to find your humility, to relinquish your thinking minds and travel deep into the mind of the heart; To look up into the sky, streaked with fewer planes, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, smoky, smoggy, rainy? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be healthy? To look at a tree, and see it, to notice its condition: how does its health contribute to the health of the sky, to the air you need to be healthy? To visit a river, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, clean, murky, polluted? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be healthy? How does its health contribute to the health of the tree, who contributes to the health of the sky, so that you may also be healthy? Many are afraid now. Do not demonize your fear, and also, do not let it rule you. Instead, let it speak to youin your stillness, listen for its wisdom. What might it be telling you about what is at work, at issue, at risk, beyond the threats of personal inconvenience and illness? As the health of a tree, a river, the sky tells you about quality of your own health, what might the quality of your health tell you about the health of the rivers, the trees, the sky, and all of us who share this planet with you? Stop. Notice if you are resisting. Notice what you are resisting. Ask why. Stop. Just stop. Be still. Listen. Ask us what we might teach you about illness and healing, about what might be required so that all may be well. We will help you, if you listen. -Kristin Fly See more

Ikea have published instructions for making forts at home. What a fantastic project for children...of ALL ages. #Ikea #GoodJobIkea

The foundation of all learning and self-generated healing too!!

A great activity!!!