Social and Emotional Learning Teaches Delayed Gratification

Social and Emotional Learning Teaches Delayed Gratification

Social and emotional learning includes promoting the important skill of delayed gratification. This became a blatant reality during this pandemic. So many activities were put on hold.  As a result, some managed this well and others put themselves and others in danger....
Children with Social Emotional Learning Skills Are Prepared For Life

Children with Social Emotional Learning Skills Are Prepared For Life

When children have social emotional learning, they are more prepared for life. Life preparedness means from early childhood to adulthood.  Children need  to relate to others, be empathic and address their own emotions. If parents and teaches always step in and take...
Teaching Children Emotional Intelligence Combats Systemic Racism

Teaching Children Emotional Intelligence Combats Systemic Racism

Teaching children the skills developing emotional intelligence combats systemic racism.  Consider the premise that if we were raised with emotional intelligence that systemic racism would not be a factor in our society.  As an example in recent years, Daniel...
Social and Emotional Learning Teaches Delayed Gratification

Teaching Children Delayed Gratification/Impulse Control

Teaching children to delay gratification and have impulse control is an important EQ skill often puzzling to parents.  When I parented, I certainly had no idea how to do this.  A wonderful study completed over 50 years ago at Stanford University called the Marshmallow...
Is Your Child’s World Emotionally Safe? – A Look at My Book

Is Your Child’s World Emotionally Safe? – A Look at My Book

Writing my book, “Is Your Child’s World Emotionally Safe?”  was quite an adventure. It took me many months and many edits.   It provided me with a time to reflect back on this journey of attempting to provide emotional safety for myself. I felt it...