Phones had to be in our room by 10 pm

Aug 1, 2021
11:42:26am

OU Cougar Truly Addicted User

Up by 630 for scriptures, sleep in if you want on weekends. That seemed to get then to go to bed without being too rigid

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Dealing with kids and mental health now that I’m almost an empty nester

OU Cougar

8/1/21 8:47am

Very well said and thought-provoking.

Gavin

8/1/21 8:56am

It’s interesting how much they refer to the summiting in talks etc

OU Cougar

8/1/21 9:15am

Any tips for dealing with a 4 year old who only sits still when sleeping?

Powerbait DPM

8/1/21 8:56am

Send him on a 50 mi backpack trip over a 10k summit to sleep in a snow cave

Pro Logic

8/1/21 8:58am

more birthdays is probably the best solution... just be thankful your kid isn't boring... seems like the early stages of

HarlemCoug

8/1/21 9:00am

My 14 year old daughter is that way

jxncoog

8/1/21 1:03pm

his only thing that keeps him quiet is when he's watching a show or sleeping.

Powerbait DPM

8/1/21 1:21pm

I don’t think you teach kids to be quiet in Church. They either are or aren’t.

stenso

8/1/21 1:55pm

I think you can teach kids to be quiet in church. It starts by teaching them how to be still at home.

HarlemCoug

8/1/21 2:17pm

Gymnastics! It was a life saver for our son. LITERALLY!

moknowssports

8/1/21 2:42pm

That’s what our daughter did

jxncoog

8/1/21 6:25pm

You need to gt your sleep, and your exercise. Other wise you'll respond

bald man

8/2/21 8:06am

Totally agree on making sure they have a thing (sports, music) that

cougfanz

8/1/21 9:00am

I'm convinced that a lack of physical activity plays a bigger part in today's mental health epidemic than most admit

HarlemCoug

8/1/21 9:03am

I feel we have reduced depression/anxiety to just hormone imbalances ...

runnincoug

8/1/21 9:08am

In psychiatry there is the biopsychosocial model

BrighamJung

8/1/21 9:16am

Yep, exactly! Biology is part of the solution, but not ALL of it.

runnincoug

8/1/21 9:22am

I've also come to the conclusion that what a therapist does for a patient

bald man

8/2/21 8:09am

Therapy can be pretty difficult to do

BrighamJung

8/2/21 3:07pm

I’m very interested to see how research on diet and processed foods

redraidercoug

8/1/21 9:31am

I agree. Yet getting someone who is struggling to do t hose

bald man

8/2/21 8:08am

Physical activity and sunlight. People need to be out in the sun...

reddead

8/1/21 11:33am

I applaud your intentional, consistent, active planning & implementation, agreed to by both parents

ColoSpgs

8/1/21 9:16am

Yeah we had to access therapy, psychiatry and medicine too

OU Cougar

8/1/21 9:23am

I think if you can help a teenager identify proper coping mechanisms, that will

bald man

8/2/21 8:17am

I think this is a good point to make. For some people, depression will always

redraidercoug

8/1/21 9:25am

Doesn’t sound like you ever dealt with trans gender or same sex relationships.

Bullrider

8/1/21 9:41am

Personally I wouldn’t equate same sex relationships in the “mental health”

cougfanz

8/1/21 9:47am

it's there cuz

warp

8/1/21 6:13pm

No. I have a cousin in a same sex marriage in Oklahoma though

OU Cougar

8/1/21 10:21am

Great points..I've found that cell phones have hurt our children. Our first two

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

8/1/21 10:15am

This, 100%. One of the best things you can do is keep kids off screens

runnincoug

8/1/21 10:48am

All those things are important for mental health, but genetics/brain developmen

ColonelMustard

8/1/21 10:22am

Did you have any rules about sleep?

tyrwhite

8/1/21 11:33am

Phones had to be in our room by 10 pm

OU Cougar

8/1/21 11:42am

Great advice here. Seems to mirror what the Church encourages.

stenso

8/1/21 12:37pm

We did similar things, but the mental health still has come back

bald man

8/2/21 8:04am

We did all of these things and still have two boys with severe mental illness.

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