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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Alisa Pressman and today's episode is all about the

transition from summer to school. It is always a hard transition. Transitions are generally

difficult because they involve change. They involve uncertainty. They involve a loss of the

experience of summer. They are totally confusing when it comes to what's going to happen in the

fall because really for the last year and a half there hasn't been a clear cut answer about

how school would be from one day to the next. So there's always a challenge with transition.

There's always a challenge from summer to school transitions and this year is even more

challenging but we can do this and we can help our kids do this. So this episode I've enlisted Dr.

Helen Egger who is a phenomenal child psychiatrist. She is a professor and former chair of the

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University's Langone Health

and was the director of the Child Study Center. She now has a company called Little Otter

that supports mental health online and there'll be links in the show notes for a really cool

toolkit to check in and see how your kids are doing during this transition and some activities

that they can do if they're struggling. I'm still collecting questions and topics for the monthly

bonus episode and I love hearing from you. It's always stressful going back to school and

not all stress is bad right? Going to kindergarten is a developmentally appropriate stressor

but it still is a challenge for the child and can be a challenge for parents. I think what's

different about this year is that we all collectively have had this really difficult time with

incredible uncertainty with school for many kids being totally through Zoom and we are not

entering into a fall with things being back to quote unquote normal right? We really are continuing

to face the stresses that we have had over the last 18 months. So I think that the advice for

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