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Helping children cope with mass shootings

(Image: ABC News/Dayton) Columbia,SC (WOLO) — It’s a tough topic, even for adults. If your child happened to see any of the frightening images on the evening news concerning the most recent mass shootings, How do you respond to your child’s questions? Dr.  Robin Welsh with Prisma Health Children’s Hospital-Midlands’ child and adolescent psychiatrist and director of the Child Development…

Benedict College named 2019 HBCU of the year

(Image: Benedict College/Benedict College Administrators, Student Government Leaders, staff, and alumni traveled to Baltimore to represent the College and accept the HBCU Award. ) COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — The National Alumni Association is back from a weekend visit to Baltimore for the annual HBCU Awards ceremony where this year (2019) Benedict College received the top honor being named the Historically Black…

Parent calls GA school post showing only black ‘appropriate’ vs. ‘inappropriate’ hairstyles discrimination

Image courtesy: Denay Helena/CNN) (CNN) — An elementary school in Georgia came under fire after a hairstylist shared photos that the school used to show “appropriate” and “inappropriate” hairstyles for students. A parent of a student at Narvie Harris Elementary in Decatur saw the poster in the school and snapped a picture. She shared it with her hairstylist, Danay Helena,…

For The Health of It: Back Pain in Children

Tyler Ryan learns about child back pain from Hima Dalal

COLUMBIA SC (WOLO) – Back pain is fairly common in children and adolescents. Most of the time, it is nonspecific muscular pain, muscle strain, poor posture, kyphosis (round back), scoliosis, something as simple as carrying a backpack the wrong way, or the over use of muscles in sports, sitting the wrong way in a chair, playing video games on the IPad,…