Page 8 - Palm City Spotlight - October '22

Page 8, Palm City Spotlight

Kids CornEr

New WPTV Newsroom area, and headline wall.

Exhibit: Children Bringing You Visitors are able to select
different backgrounds in the
Breaking News And Weather production area and learn
how producers are able to
On Sunday, Sept. 4, The Children’s Museum of the cut in with breaking news.
Treasure Coast opened its newest exhibit; the WPTV Then those who are not
Newsroom. News anchors, reporters, WPTV production camera shy can report on
staff and museum staff all joined together with their stories or give the weather
families for a delicious breakfast and ribbon cutting report in front of the green
ceremony. The lights were on, the camera was ready, screen. Finally, the news
and the children were excited to be the first to report the continues as visitors write
breaking news. today’s headlines in a “Mad
The new News Room exhibit is proudly sponsored by Libs” style magnet wall.
WPTV News Station. With their support, The Children’s The purpose of this
Museum was able to build a new creative space for children exhibit is to teach all the
to learn about reporting breaking news and weather. roles of producing the local Tammy Calabria, James Griffel, Ashleigh Walters, Bill Siegel, Katie Makemson, Timothy
The new exhibit features a green screen, production news; on and off camera, Walker, Chris “Washer” Kearns
and hopefully spark an
interest in a future career. Katie Makemson, exhibit Walters. After taking a tour of the real WPTV station, I
designer with The Children’s Museum of the Treasure saw the importance of teaching all the behind-the-scenes
Coast said, “It’s been wonderful working on this action along with the stars on screen. My hopes are that
partnership with WPTV, including News Anchor Ashleigh one day in the future we see one of our visitors at the
WPTV anchor desk.”
The Children’s Museum would not have been able to
complete this exhibit without the help from All About
Achieving. Chris Kearns, aka “Washer,” was instrumental
in taking ideas above and beyond and creating a more
immersive exhibit. We are grateful for his help!
The museum strives to keep the Children’s Museum
evolving and relevant. The museum continues to grow and
Tory Dunnan with Slade, Tanner and Piper Anerson flourish each year and we are excited about the exhibits
still to come. If you would like to participate or would
like more information about future projects on the horizon,
please feel free to contact Katie Makemson, project
manager at (772) 225-7575, Ext. 205. We look forward to
seeing you playing and learning at the Children’s Museum.
Shannon Cake Photos by MaryAnn Ketchum

Helping Unmotivated Teens Depression in teens is real and anxiety and
depression often co-occur. These are mental health
By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., issues that do not go away on their own and can appear
Licensed School as your teen being agitated, unmotivated, disinterested,
Psychologist flippant, argumentative, withdrawn, and experimenting
Unmotivated, lazy, to fill an unmet void. If you suspect your teen has
Michelle and Mike Quesada with Mickey on TV with Tanner not applying himself, depression or anxiety, seek treatment. We offer testing
and Piper Amerson on controls and not working to his to rule out other problems and determine the true issue.
potential were words a Alternatively, you can talk to your medical provider.
mom used to describe Counselors offer support to teens willing to
her 16-year-old son participate in the process. A type of effective
as we discussed her counseling is cognitive behavioral therapy. This goal
concerns. This 11th oriented counseling helps your teen reframe negative
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something else. Testing revealed no learning disabilities, as we test children ages 5.5 through college for
Tanner, Slade and Piper Anerson with Katie Makemson in red but the teen was depressed which was causing him not dyslexia, ADHD/ADD, depression, anxiety, and other
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