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To Help Kids Succeed, Help Them Fail
By Kelly Huegel Madrone, author of LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens As mentors, how do we help kids succeed? Perhaps we’ve largely been starting with the wrong (or at least an unhelpful) question. … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, Teaching
Tagged courage, Free Spirit author, kids and fear, learning from mistakes, resilience
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Helping Kids Find the Courage to Fail
By Kimberly Feltes Taylor and Eric Braun, coauthors of How to Take the ACHE Out of Mistakes When you suggest that your child or student try something new, do they typically respond in one of the following ways? I won’t … Continue reading
Maybe the Cowardly Lion Was Right
By Allison Wedell Schumacher I’m afraid of heights. I don’t know why, but that’s the nature of phobias. They’re not necessarily rooted in experience or even logic. In cases like this, fear is hardwired into us—that fight-or-flight response that literally … Continue reading
Food for Thought: How to Bring Social-Emotional Learning to Snack Time in Your Early Childhood Classroom
By Molly Breen Sharing food and conversation go hand in hand: As humans we are, in some ways, hardwired to do these things together. In hunter-gatherer clans, extended families and communities would assemble to share food and, presumably, conversation as … Continue reading
Posted in Early Childhood, Social & Emotional Learning
Tagged courage, feelings, forgiveness, preschool, resilience, SEL, talk with kids
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Amelia Earhart Day
Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. January 11 is Amelia Earhart Day. On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person—man or woman—to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean. Her … Continue reading
Posted in Counselor's Corner
Tagged Amelia Earhart, character education, classroom activities, courage
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