{"id":465609,"date":"2026-02-10T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:18:07","slug":"giant-bear-encourages-children-to-talk-about-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465609\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant bear encourages children to talk about mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The children at Gurney Pease Academy in Darlington look forward to Poppy coming to visit them and said they could not wait until she was back with them permanently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jayden, 11, said she made him happy and if he is &#8220;feeling nervous about something I can just talk to Poppy and it makes me feel better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amelia, who is 7, said sometimes she just needed to be with Poppy and &#8220;have a break&#8221; while Charleigh, 11, said the bear helped her have the confidence to talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we&#8217;re outside and if we get pushed over or someone talks mean stuff to us, it helps us regulate and calm down,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s really special to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The children at Gurney Pease Academy in Darlington look forward to Poppy coming to visit them and said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-465609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}