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How Parents and Teachers Can Calm Kids' Getty Fire Anxiety [latimes.com]

 

By Sonali Kohli and Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2019

During this Santa Ana wind season, 12-year-old Nicholas Ladesich tends to go to bed worrying about what might burn overnight. He often has dreams of waking up in his old house that burned down in the Woolsey fire last year.

But he awakens instead in the living room of the one-bedroom guest house he shares with his brother and parents. He demands that his mom turn on the news to monitor possible fires while his 15-year-old brother Lucas uses an app to check the strength and direction of winds.

“When he hears the wind, he goes straight to ‘there’s going to be a fire,’” Alex Aspron-Ladesich, said of her younger son. After losing their Malibu home, she said, all four family members have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and receive counseling through a wellness center at Malibu High School run by the local Boys and Girls Club.

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Thanks for sharing such an amazing and informative blog. This is really helpful for kids who are suffering from anxiety. This is such an initial stage where parents and teachers can help the child overcome their issue but at a large scale, I prefer there are therapists in our society who are offering their services and do their best to overcome their client's issues so we have to consult with them. One of my friends also consults with a therapist who is offering their services as anxiety counseling California and gets their treatment now he is fine and living his life happily without any kind of issue.

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