When it comes to gratitude, sometimes modeling isn't enough. Kids learn the words "please" and "thank you," but until kids learn how good giving thanks feels, it's harder to build the habit.

Early intervention — it’s a common phrase in the education world, but what is it exactly and how can you ensure your students have access to it when necessary?

In 2020, children between 5 and 11 years old saw a 24% increase in mental health-related emergency room visits, while 12-17-year-olds saw an increase of over 30%. Early intervention —from suicide prevention all the way down to social-emotional skill building— is an excellent way to support child health before the breaking point. 

Building an Activities Box focuses your child’s attention on their current and future goals.

This Sensory Jar activity can help your child express their feelings (stress, anger, and boredom to name a few) and visualize how strong feelings settle if you just stop and watch how they pass.

You don’t have to be a professional musician to help your child create sound to build their social, emotional, and leadership skills!

In this exercise, you can help your child imagine the type of person they want to be in the future.

Everything from a school snow day the same day as the Valentine’s party or a cancelled vacation due to a death in the family can bring up intense feelings.

SEL is a hot topic in education today — from young children all the way through adolescents. But just adding the phrase to your curriculum book doesn't do much.

As time goes on, we're continuing to learn about the importance of strong social and emotional skills for children.

Children can develop the same mental health conditions as adults, but their symptoms may be different.

Seeing that your child has nutritious food, enough exercise, and regular medical care gives them a good start in life and lowers the chances that they will develop health problems later on. 

We can gain awareness, share accurate information, set news consumption limits, check-in with family and friends, and extend a helping hand however we can.

The threats of climate change can be upsetting to children. Here’s how to ease their fears with empowering solutions.

We set out to discover what it is that parents and teachers need to help students build healthy social, emotional, leadership, and coping skills. Our answer? They need the right words to evoke powerful conversations.

Big feelings are hard for parents and kids alike. How can you teach your children to handle them in a healthy way? We recommend starting with openness and honesty. We also think it’s beneficial to name emotions, ask questions, and showcase coping skills of your own.

Talking about bullying with your child never feels good, but it's important to keep lines of communication open.

Mental health is important to overall health at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Many parents we have spoken to this week have echoed these thoughts and sentiments, so we have provided some tips for discussing and coping with this unbelievable tragedy.

We live in an age where there is rapid and constant change in levels of respect, advocacy, and understanding regarding the expression of gender and sexual identities.