{"id":420,"date":"2020-10-16T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/?p=420"},"modified":"2020-10-16T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:58:40","slug":"thanet-pumpkin-trail-aims-improve-child-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/2020\/10\/16\/thanet-pumpkin-trail-aims-improve-child-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanet pumpkin trail aims improve child mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mum in Thanet is bringing people to focus on child mental health by laying out a pumpkin trail for this year\u2019s Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As trick or treating becomes a risky activity under Covid, many parents have come up with alternative ways for their children to have fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Thanet Pumpkin Trail Facebook group, which now has over 4,000 members, aims more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ange Martin, the organiser of the trail and the founder of the Facebook group, said she hoped the children could have something fun and exciting to look forward to after having a number of things taken from them this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChildren\u2019s mental health is something I\u2019m extremely passionate about, even more so in the last few years because I have watched my own daughter\u2019s mental health decline\u2026It is heartbreaking to see,\u201d Mrs Martin wrote in a post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl lost her biological father in January 2019, when he was 35 and she was eight. In addition to living through the pain of losing a parent, she also was bullied in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing her daughter suffer from anxiety and depression, Mrs Martin has tried her best to help improve the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy partner and I have been helping her as much as we can. Allowing her to speak freely any time of the day \u2013 even [if] it\u2019s at midnight and she\u2019s woken up because she is sad. She knows she can come to wake us to chat and we will listen with no issues at all,\u201d said Mrs Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now as both a hairdresser and a child\u2019s mental health advocate, Mrs Martin hopes to help the children of Thanet and maybe further a field in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Image.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Image-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mum in Thanet is bringing people to focus on child mental health by laying out a pumpkin trail for this year\u2019s Halloween. As trick or treating becomes a risky activity under Covid, many parents have come up with alternative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/InvictaNews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}