Negotiating the New Normal with Your Elementary Aged Child with Sylvia Hunter

What are some signs of anxiety in children and what can you do as a parent to help them?

Sylvia Hazel Hunter, a native of Charleston, South Carolina attended Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education and  a Master of Education degree in School Counseling from the College of William and Mary. Ms. Hazel-Hunter taught elementary school for eight years before becoming the first elementary school counselor in Newport News Public Schools in 1988. She has co-authored two handbooks on elementary school counseling for Newport News Public Schools. Hazel-Hunter was recognized in 2004 as Virginia’s Elementary School Counselor of the Year and Exemplary School Counselor of Hampton Roads in 2012. Currently, she is an elementary school counselor at Riverside Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.