The Grandparents' Community Platform
Grand Central® Radio
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The Grandparents' Community Platform
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May 6, 2024
Grand Central® Radio Episode No. 11: Exercising With Grandchildren for Energy, Strength, and Mental Health (April 22, 2024)
Host Geri Cole interviews Dr. Laurel Mines and other grandparents about exercising with grandchildren, emphasizing the importance of fun, connection, and adapting activities to different ages and abilities for overall wellbeing.
May 6, 2024
Episode No. 11: Exercising With Grandchildren for Energy, Strength, and Mental Health (April 22, 2024)
<p>© 2024 Grandma Communications LLC</p> <p>Host Geri Cole converses with physical therapist, mental performance coach, educator, and public speaker Dr. Laurel Mines, PT, DPT, OCS, who holds a Doctor of Physical Therapy from MGH Institute of Health Professions in Massachusetts and instructs at Stanford University in California, and with two other grandparents, their experiences and suggestions regarding exercise with children by persons in the role of grandparent to promote medical, physical, and mental wellbeing of all, including making an exercise plan considering the different ages, stages of development, and other circumstances of all participants in each activity and the equipment and other resources available, recognizing when to stop an activity, focusing on fun and connection with children and other companions in, and not solely on completion of, the activity, arranging the activity environment for successful interaction among all participants in the activity and training for flexibility and resiliency, attending sports games with children, both professional games and games the children play, and playing board games like chess, reading, and singing with children, telling children a grandparent’s legacy stories of successes and failures of growing up and handling injuries and other setbacks, using online resources about training for and enjoying exercise, and considering whether to consult with a physical therapist or a personal trainer depending upon goals and extent of any pain or dysfunction, taking children to gyms admitting and providing appropriate activities for and supervision of them, and attaining from gym staff instructions for setting up equipment and using it safely, encouraging children to engage in ball slams and other vigorous activities for exercise, fun, anger management, excess energy control, and other mental health improvements and augmentations, testing the limits of all activity participants and tracking progress of increasing weights lifted, miles hiked, walked, run, or bicycled, and other benchmarks, to inspire further progress to physical and mental fitness, and incorporating appreciation of nature and relaxed conversation in exercise activities like walking.</p>
May 27, 2022
Grand Central® Radio Episode No. 10: Building Resilience in Disaster (May 27, 2022)
<p>© 2022 Grandma Communications LLC</p> <p>Licensed clinical social workers experienced in assisting children and their caregivers in overcoming severe trauma resulting from such community disasters as 9/11, floods, and displacement and resettlement due to war or other disasters in Central America, Dr. Leslie Pena-Sullivan and Mr. William Stover, discuss with host Geri Cole and two other working grandmothers tools and strategies to help children in their care survive trauma and anxiety during and after community disaster when professional mental health and social worker services – and even the Internet – may not be available, including (a) listening more than talking, (b) asking open-ended questions, (c) collaborating and interacting in art, play and other activities with children, (d) modeling expressing and asking for help about our own fears and emotions, (e) asking children about the importance to them of what they lost and emphasizing what the children still have, including their caregiver, without promising that they will recover what they lost, (f) acknowledging and apologizing to children for our speaking or acting towards them in ways we regret, (g) redirecting children’s potentially harmful words and actions to safe activities such as ripping paper, (g) preparing for the inevitable community disaster affecting us and the children in our care by imaging how we would speak and behave in disasters reported in the news, (h) building and relying for support on a community of kind and compassionate persons experiencing the same disaster, (i) remembering that none of us are perfect caregivers and all we can do is the best that we can, and (j) urging our governmental representatives to devote financial resources for mental health providers and social workers, attired for easy identification, to accompany first responders to sites of disasters to provide counseling as and when needed.</p> <p>To view/download transcript <a href="https://grandcentralradio.com/transcript-grand-central-radio-episode-no-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a></p>
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