Page 22 - PGA Community News - July '21

Page 22, PGA C.A.N.! July 2021 July 2021

Three Ways To Help Kids Who Worry

By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., if it is a rational or irrational fear. Thus, you are leaving Coping Cat program with their parent. You can learn more
School Psychologist the triggering event that leads to his irrational fear of an at www.copingcatparents.com.
Is your child a worrier? accident. This takes lots of discussion as well as teaching Finally, if needed, seek a professional counselor.
Excessive worrying in him how to self-calm through breathing. There are many counselors that use a cognitive behavioral
children might show up Second, use books or a program. To help a younger therapy approach to treatment. This type of counseling
when he throws up every child, you could read What to Do When You Worry Too helps your child change negative thoughts into more
day before school, she has Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety with your positive thoughts. Counseling helps children cope
to know your whereabouts child. For a teen you can read The Anxiety and Worry with and manage anxiety symptoms while gradually
at all times, she can’t sleep Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution by David exposing them to their fears to help them learn skills.
in her own bed, he is afraid Clark. Younger children often benefit from using the PsychologyToday.com is one good source.
of a family member dying,
and she worries so much
about what peers think so it stifles decision making.
These are real issues and the pandemic has elevated Book Review from page 20
anxiety in children. Causes of anxiety include genetics
as anxiety often runs in the family tree, past experience likewise lending support to the possibility of transmitting carefully, worked their ruse on the camp commander –
such as being bullied, or temperament. Summer is a thought: If person-to-person discourse via telegraphed at one point even pleading with him not to make them
great time to help your child and teach new coping skills. messages, radioed voices, and telephonic speech was a leave the safety of the camp to lead him to the treasure
One way to help your child is to teach him or her how reality, then why not direct communication from mind – is a story told in gripping detail.
to identify triggers. What precipitates the anxiety? Your to mind, without the intervening technology? Many But even the remarkable accomplishment of
child might not want you to leave him and when you go investigators of spiritualist phenomena, including the convincing the commander about Jones’s ability to
to the store he worries you’ll get in a car accident. Once Society for Psychical Research, were busy exploring communicate with the spirit world, and to appeal to his
you know the anxiety trigger, teach your child to decide thought reading as well.” greed as a way of being able to escape, almost pales in
The astounding worldwide spread of belief in comparison to a key part of the plan: the need for Jones
the Ouija board was its convincingly high record of and Hill to be diagnosed as certifiably insane so that
accuracy in answering many of the ordinary kinds of the commander – for his own greedy purposes – could
questions asked by those present at group sessions. officially authorize them to leave the otherwise strictly
Wanted a staggeringly long distance, and then held in an Turkish mental hospital. Carefully acting out their

guarded camp in order to be examined at a distant
After Harry Jones had been captured, force-marched
parts, having been coached by a doctor among their
isolated prisoner of war camp surrounded by desert and
mountains in Turkey, he made a make-shift Ouija board fellow prisoners, Jones and Hill anticipate two weeks
to help pass the time with his fellow prisoners ... and at the hospital – only to find that their stay extends to
People are vandalizing carefully memorized the complex order of alphabetical six months, during which time they must act the roles
golf courses after play letters around the edge of the board so that he could of madmen 24 hours a day! It is a horrific test of their
hours. Sand traps, greens spell out answers even blindfolded, to the amazement determination and endurance, and one of the most
of the others, who began to suspect that he could in
compelling sections of the book.
and fairways are being fact commune with the spirit world. Finally, we learn what awaited both Jones and Hill
damaged. If you see anyone One day, another group of prisoners arrived that after this historic experience, and through the rest of
their lives. The author’s voluminous research is attested
on courses after hours, included an Australian who had enlisted in England’s to by the 188 pages of reference notes and index at the
Royal Air Force. Cedric Hill, as it turned out, was an
please call POA Security accomplished sleight-of-hand artist who had entertained back of the book, plus several maps and photos of the
at 627-1600 or many with his magic tricks. The meeting of Jones and leading characters.

Hill was a fortuitous coincidence: Together, over a
Author Margalit Fox takes the story one important
Resort Security, 627-2000. period of months, they used their separate but related step further in her closing chapter, “Persuasion,” which
Thank you. skills to convince the camp’s stern Ottoman commander – with the help of comments from noted psychologists
that the spirit who answered Jones through the Ouija and other experts – describes how con men are able
board – the “Spook” – knew of a treasure buried miles to fool enormous numbers of people into believing
from the camp by a wealthy man who had been a victim what their own common sense tells them is not true –
of the earlier Armenian massacre by the Turks. when they believe what they want to believe. It is an
The extraordinary and complex psychological steps especially relevant read during this time in our own
by which Jones and Hill slowly, and excruciatingly nation’s life.

Mother Nature’s Pantry

Serving The Community For 40 Years

Everything you need for a healthier lifestyle

H Sandwiches & Wraps
H Homemade Soups

Southern Exposure Technologies H Garden Fresh Salads
Computer Install/Setup/Repair H Smoothies
(561) 315-0144
getsetgo.annie@gmail.com H Healthy Shakes
* DSL, Broadband,Wireless Install H Energy Drinks - Juices
* Networking, Troubleshooting
* Instruction
* Hardware/Software Installation
* Virus/Spyware/Adware Fix We carry a complete line of Solgar,
* Cleanup/Maintenance/Backup
* Business Consult/Startup/Move New Chapter, Garden of Life, Natures Plus,
* Website Design/Maintenance
Call S.E.T. to install your “new computer, printer and many more
and wireless network”!
GET S.E.T. GO!
REASONABLE HOURLY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY RATES We Will Meet Any Competitor’s Price
FOR SMALL BUSINESSES FOR AS LOW AS $50.00 AN HOUR,
WITH A MINIMUM OF 6 HOURS A MONTH,
OR 2 HOURS A WEEK, OR ON AN AS-NEEDED
BASIS RATE OF $75.00 P/HOUR. 4513 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, FL
START YOUR NEW YEAR WITH SECURE BACKUPS,
QUALITY MAINTENANCE, ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND On the corner of PGA and Military Trail
PERSONABLE ON-SITE SUPPORT!
(561) 315-0144 561.626.4461
CALL S.E.T. TODAY FOR YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS!