Megan Viecelli

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Megan Viecelli

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – School’s out for most kids around the country, and a new study confirms most parents are already getting stressed about their kids’ mental health. One doctor calls it the “summer scaries.”“That feeling that parents are getting right as kids are starting to get ready for the summer break and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh. What am I going to do with my kids?!'” said Dr. Ariana Hoet, IDS Mental Health Foundation.

1 week ago | wlns.com | Megan Viecelli

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – School’s out for most kids around the country, and a new study confirms most parents are already getting stressed about their kids’ mental health. One doctor calls it the “summer scaries.”“That feeling that parents are getting right as kids are starting to get ready for the summer break and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh. What am I going to do with my kids?!'” said Dr. Ariana Hoet, IDS Mental Health Foundation.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Megan Viecelli

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Cooper Hospital held its annual “Teddy Bears to the Rescue” event, where teddy bears become the patients and kindergarten students work with medical staff to diagnose and treat them. “This helps to increase their familiarity to get comfortable with who they might be seeing in the event they ever have to come back. We help to ease their anxiety around coming to the hospital,” Max Kursh with Cooper Hospital explained.

2 weeks ago | wlns.com | Megan Viecelli

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Cooper Hospital held its annual “Teddy Bears to the Rescue” event, where teddy bears become the patients and kindergarten students work with medical staff to diagnose and treat them. “This helps to increase their familiarity to get comfortable with who they might be seeing in the event they ever have to come back. We help to ease their anxiety around coming to the hospital,” Max Kursh with Cooper Hospital explained.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Megan Viecelli

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – 33-year-old Morgan Hentemann, a mother of five from St. Johns, shows what it means to never give up – no matter the odds. “We stepped into a territory where, just her being able to be here right now, today, is honestly a miracle based on where her injury was and how severe it was,” Stephen Hentemann, Morgan’s husband, said. “She had complete paralysis. I mean, just to be able to get her smile back, to walk, that honestly is a miracle in its own right.