{"id":193272,"date":"2022-06-07T07:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/?p=193272"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T23:40:17","slug":"create-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/create-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it\u2019s only been five weeks since the last blog, a lot has changed; we have a new federal government, winter has well and truly arrived, and I don\u2019t want to jinx anything, but we\u2019ve had more sunshine than rain recently! Change \u2013 creating it, living with it and resilience to it \u2013 is a common theme in many books, and the three very different titles on the blog this month are no different.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ant Middleton is best known to us as the ex-soldier who likes to make people jump out of helicopters \u2013 not a person you\u2019d typically turn for advice on how to cope with the ups-and-downs of childhood. In Mission Total Resilience<\/em><\/a>, Middleton recounts the challenges he faced growing up, not least his father dying when he was eight, followed by his mother re-marrying and moving the family from a large English city to a small French town. By discussing important issues like confidence, fear and physical health through the lens of his own experiences, children are encouraged to build resilience in a way that works for them. Each chapter focusses on a different topic with information broken up into chunks and containing advice, ideas and activities this is a great resource.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you haven\u2019t encountered the Emmie & Friends series yet, Remarkably Ruby<\/em><\/a> is a great place to start. The series is set in the same middle school, and each book features two students who have different perspectives on the same event or relationship. Remarkably Ruby<\/em> features Ruby, who really struggles to fit in. Being very tall and often failing to find the right thing to say to people, she doesn\u2019t really have any friends. Mia on the other hand is popular, driven and\u2026 used to be Ruby\u2019s closest friend. However, she\u2019s starting to feel a bit like a third wheel with her two best friends, and a bit like she doesn\u2019t fit in as well as she\u2019d thought. When their English teacher starts a Poetry Club, both Ruby and Mia discover things about themselves, and each other, they would never have thought possible. As well as tackling important topics, such as kindness and being your best self, it also introduces children to the idea that there can be more than one way of looking at or experiencing a situation.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In The Lesbiana\u2019s Guide to Catholic School<\/em><\/a>, we meet Yami, who\u2019s just started at a new school. While she isn\u2019t thrilled about being one of the only Mexican students at a school full of rich, privileged white kids, she is pleased to have an excuse for a new start. Last year Yami made the mistake of coming out to her best friend and crush, and to say she did not take it well would be something of an understatement. This time Yami is determined to stay firmly in the closet, and to look after her super-smart younger brother who constantly seems to find himself in trouble. The problem is there\u2019s a really cute openly queer girl at school, and Yami\u2019s getting pretty sick of fulfilling everyone else\u2019s expectations; when does she<\/em> get to be who she wants to be? When do her talents get recognised? A funny, insightful look at the many hurdles some of us have to overcome to be happy.<\/p>\n

App of the Month \u2013 Headspace<\/a>*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the first few months of this year, I\u2019ve spoken about the trouble I\u2019ve had with concentration and reading. It\u2019s also becoming very obvious to me that I\u2019m not the only one struggling to both focus on a single task for more than five minutes and turn my brain off (or at least down) at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

\"\"The most helpful strategy I\u2019ve come across is the Headspace<\/a> app. One of the things I love most about this app \u2013 because let\u2019s face it, there\u2019s no shortage of apps focusing on mindfulness and mental health \u2013 is that there\u2019s an understanding that not everyone benefits from the same approach, and indeed sometimes one person needs more than one tactic up their sleeve. This means that as well as traditional guided meditations, there are also sleep stories (I find these really helpful to help switch my brain off and go to sleep), workouts, podcasts and articles. The app can even put together a bit of a program for you based on what you want to get out of it.<\/p>\n

While much of this is only available to paid subscribers, there are parts that are available for free. If you\u2019ve after something to help you turn down the volume of your head, this is definitely a great place to start.<\/p>\n

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*Please note that these links will take you to sites not managed by HarperCollins Publishers Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it\u2019s only been five weeks since the last blog, a lot has changed; we have a new federal government, winter has well and truly arrived, and I don\u2019t want to jinx anything, but we\u2019ve had more sunshine than rain recently! Change \u2013 creating it, living with it and resilience to it \u2013 is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":193273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,291,15,140,18,16,3230],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/hakon-grimstad-hteXWSF9jA4-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}