How to help children with difficult emotions

In a Tuesday talk at MUMS, child psychotherapist and author Jennifer Weaver will address how to support children/grandchildren/students through big emotions while teaching them that difficult feelings are a normal part of life

U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) this week celebrated the U.S. House’s passage of their bipartisan, bicameral Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, legislation to support America … (read more)

Guardians ad litem are volunteers who are appointed by judges in juvenile court cases to advocate for the best interest of children involved in those cases.

No. No, and no again. I write in defense of my fellow Addison Central School District board members, who are much more diplomatic and polite than I am. Contrary to what John Freidin has written in this paper and on Front Porch Forum — cutting the school b … (read more)

As children get ready to return to school, I am reminded of my family counseling work after 9/11. Kids came to school following that horrific day carrying tremendous trauma and stress with them. Not surprisingly, they used phrases and drew pictures much l … (read more)

This will likely be a short column, because we are in the midst of putting in our garden. I have a complex relationship with my garden — as, I suspect, do many. Starting around March, a feeling that has lain dormant throughout the winter begins to stir in … (read more)

The most common type of maltreatment of children is neglect, the Middlebury Family Services of the Vermont Department For Children And Families is reporting. In these hard times, it is especially important that we all do what we can to support families in … (read more)

VERMONT — The statewide Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington knew at least 40 Vermont priests faced accusations of sexually abusing children over the past seven decades but did nothing to alert the public or police, a lay-led church committee announced Th … (read more)