Back To School Anxieties: Emotional Intelligence / Social Emotional Learning Skills Help!

Back To School Anxieties: Emotional Intelligence / Social Emotional Learning Skills Help!

Back to school anxieties always need emotional intelligence skills. However, the pandemic is presenting challenges that far exceed the normal back to school drama and trauma.  Children usually experience the fears demonstrated throughout history. Such as, will I like...
Masking Teaches Children Empathy for Themselves and Others

Masking Teaches Children Empathy for Themselves and Others

Masking teaches children empathy for themselves and others and is the emotionally intelligent behavior of adults experiencing this pandemic.  It is such a simple solution and yet meets such resistance from those who have not evolved socially or emotionally. ...
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....
Social and Emotional Learning: The Disconnect Between Home and School

Social and Emotional Learning: The Disconnect Between Home and School

Lets’ look at Parenting and Social Emotional Learning and how there is a disconnect between school and home environments. Social and emotional learning is crucial to the healthy development of young children.  However, there seems to be a disconnect between what...
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...