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In an effort to combat childhood hunger, New Haven will be providing kids in Hamden and New Haven free breakfast and lunch.
There are 41 sites that will be open July 5-August 5.
The program is available to children under the age of 18.
In 2009, more than 12 million children in America went hungry.
In other words, there are certain children who simply are born anxious.
“Different kids have different strengths and weaknesses,” said Kristen Davis-Coelho, a psychologist for Renown Behavioral Health in Reno. “Some are much more adventurous, really like new experiences, and other ones are a little more tentative. Sometimes it can surprise a parent.”
Biology or not, family psychologist and syndicated columnist John Rosemond said he believes parents almost always play a significant role in the problem.
“When you find a child of school age, kindergarten, first grade, it is almost always associated with parents and specifically a mother who has had difficulty separating from the child from day one,” he said.
The good news? In most cases, separation anxiety is quickly reversible. Davis-Coelho said only about 5% of children suffer from separation anxiety disorder, a severe form that lasts longer than a few weeks.
Advance planning
Bravo said children who are prone to anxiety tend to do better when they know what to expect each day, so she suggests getting them settled into a predictable schedule early.
“The child would have their time to eat, their time to go to sleep,” she said.
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New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) – You have to register your kids for Kindergarten. You don’t have to but you can register your kids for pre-Kindergarten, and the experts say you should. That’s why folks from the New Haven school system will be going around the city this week encouraging people to sign their kids up.
Pre-K is open to children ages 3 to 5. To sign your kid up, you need his or her birth certificate, proof of income, because some programs are specific to low-income families, and a utility bill to prove you live in New Haven.
School officials are going to be signing kids up all over the city in a big yellow school bus this week. The first stop is today at the Hill Health Center on Columbus Avenue, from 10 a.m. to Noon.
Other stops this week include:
Monday, August 16th
Tuesday, August 17th