Lenoir City Schools
Coordinated School Health - Family Newsletter - Nov 2020
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Supporting Families with Stress Management
Dear Families,
We know that these are stressful times, and we are dedicated to supporting you in any way we can. In partnership with Kaiser Permanente and Sanford Harmony, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation presented a 30-minute stress management webinar*.
Although the title references “educators,” we believe the tips are useful to any person at this time. We know that providing a stable, loving home helps buffer the impacts of stress on you and your children. We encourage you to watch this with other adults in your household and practice some of these tips.
The webinar is broken into 3 parts:
1. Stress and Uncertainty on the Brain
In this section, you will learn that the stress you are feeling is a totally normal experience. The brain is hardwired to go into ‘self-protection’ mode when faced with fear and uncertainty. Be kind to yourself.
2. Acceptance & Awareness of the Self
We want to be sure that you know that we know you are doing the very best you can. This section will provide you with some strategies to help you accept the struggle we are all facing. It will also share how to fully become aware of how your stress is showing up for you. Maybe you are thinking to yourself that you aren’t a good enough parent-turned educator. Perhaps you are experiencing edginess with your kids. Or maybe you can’t find your focus. Whatever it is for you, this section will give you useful tips on noticing and managing these feelings.
3. Acceptance & Awareness of Others
Living in close quarters with your family isn’t easy! One of the best ways to gain a quick perspective when we are irritated with other people is to practice loving-kindness meditation. This quick strategy has been shown to reduce your stress and anxiety – and we could all use some of that right now!
This information is taken directly from the Healthier Generation website. For more information on this particular category, click here.
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November Observances
National Family Health History Day (November 26)
Website: https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/famhistory/knowing_not_enough.htm
Great American Smoke Out (November 19)
Website: https://www.cancer.org/healthy/stay-away-from-tobacco/great-american-smokeout.html
November is Diabetes Awareness Month
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Community Events
CHRISTMAS PARADE/TREE LIGHTING
Kick-off the holiday season with the Lenoir City Christmas Parade! Each year, thousands of families come together on a magical December night to watch the excitement of a parade and catch the first glimpses of Santa as the holiday season begins. Historic downtown Lenoir City provides beautiful lights and sounds that will please parade fans everywhere!
Get your float and parade entry ideas ready and help us bring the magic of Christmas to Broadway!
Downtown Lenoir City -C Street to Pike Street
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Line-up will be at Yale Commercial Locks parking lot starting at 5:00 pm.
The Tree Lighting part has been Canceled due to the construction of a new splash-pad. The parade is still on as scheduled.
The parade will kick off at 6:30 pm.
All parade participants MUST pre-register.
EVENING WITH SANTA
Lenoir City Parks and Recreation would like to invite children and families to attend an evening with Santa.
This event includes 1-1 time with Santa, light refreshments, crafts, games
and a keepsake photo of your child with Santa.
War Memorial Building
Thursday, December 10, 2020
6:00-7:30 P.M.
This event is free.
For more community resources, click here.
AN "ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE" IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Lenoir City Schools Coordinated School Health
Email: wbstooksbury@lenoircityschools.net
Website: lenoircityschools.com
Location: 203 Kelly Lane, Lenoir City, TN, USA
Phone: 865-988-7257
Twitter: @LCSchoolHealth