The Effects of Screen Time

Technology is the way of the future! Kids are overexposed to screen time!
The debate about the presence of technology in our lives puts people all over the spectrum. The article Screentime is Making Kids Moody, Crazy, and Lazy by Victoria Dunkley in Psychology Today suggests 6 ways electronic screen time may be making kids angry, depressed, and unmotivated.

School Counselors Want You To Know

Jessica Lahey made headlines last year with her bestseller The Gift of Failure which encourages parents to avoid "overparenting" in order to help raise resilient children.

This week, Jessica Lahey's article 3 Things School Counselors Want You To Know appeared on the New York Times blog. It's a quick read that sums up a lot about what  it means to be a school counselor today.

An excerpt from the post:

Don’t call them “guidance counselors.” The proper title is “school counselor,” she explained in an email. “School counselors chafe at the outdated term ‘guidance counselor,’ a relic from the past that no longer reflects our role,” she wrote. The profession was vocationally oriented and counselors had inconsistent educational backgrounds and levels of certification until the American School Counselor Association published “The ASCA National Model: A Foundation for School Counseling Programs” in 2003 in an effort to standardize the field.

Welcome!

This blog is designed to help promote awareness around issues related to school counseling and to share information about the counseling program at Peterborough Elementary School.

School counselors help students with academic achievement, career awareness, and personal/social skill development in accordance with guidelines established by the American School Counselor Association.