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The Stories Kids Want To Tell About COVID

Our children grew up in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their brains developed in quarantine. Their bodies changed in lockdown. They are emerging from this as different people, and the impact it had on them is yet to be told. Here are 4 things we can do to support our children’s social-emotional...

A Play-Based Solution To Reducing Stress In The Classroom

How can educators bring mindfulness practices into their classrooms? This educator shares tips and ideas for playful mindful minutes that can be added into the school day.

Preschooler Teaches Her Younger Sister About Emotions While Learning To Manage Her Own

The last thing Kelly wanted was another gimmick for a tired, worn-out parent. She was overwhelmed and out of ideas on how to manage her daughters' meltdowns. But then something amazing happened ... her oldest daughter taught her youngest daughter how to use a feelings chart.

Feeding The Senses Helps Regulate Emotions: Part 2

Sensory diets are one way to incorporate alerting or calming sensory activities to regulate the nervous system, and because every child is unique, so too is every sensory diet. Here are 9 things to consider when designing a sensory diet:

What Teachers Are Thinking and Feeling About Returning To School This Year

With fall approaching, parents and educators are looking to the next school year and wondering what’s best for everyone involved.

Children Need Less Academics and More Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom

Starting school or starting a new school year can be stressful at the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic.

School After COVID: What Parents Are Saying

Last March, school districts across the country closed due to COVID, and more than 55 million children were sent home to finish their school year.

Raising Awake Children in the Age of Black Lives Matter

Our country is standing at a pivoting point. #BlackLivesMatter is the anthem and our nation is singing in the face of injustice. For all lives to matter, black lives must matter.

An Open Letter To My Child's Teacher

For months, every morning, I sent my child off to school to be in your care. I entrusted you with my heart as he walked into your classroom. I handed him off to you, woman to woman, knowing that for the next several hours, it would be you that he...

4 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home

Four tips to help parents create meaningful and effective in-home learning opportunities during the pandemic.

Positive Affirmations are Helping Kids

These printable mantra bracelets are a great way for parents to share comforting and empowering mantras with children as young as age two on up. Because when we feel worthy and loved, we respond as if we are worthy and loved. And when we feel powerless and not enough, we respond as...

6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Sierra has struggled to cultivate language for how her disability impacts her own social-emotional development and how it impacts her experiences at school. This struggle has been a barrier to Sierra’s ability to create positive relationships with her classmates.

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Peaceful Homes & Classrooms

The Stories Kids Want To Tell About COVID

A Play-Based Solution To Reducing Stress In The Classroom

Preschooler Teaches Her Younger Sister About Emotions While Learning To Manage Her Own

Feeding The Senses Helps Regulate Emotions: Part 2

What Teachers Are Thinking and Feeling About Returning To School This Year

Children Need Less Academics and More Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom

School After COVID: What Parents Are Saying

Raising Awake Children in the Age of Black Lives Matter

An Open Letter To My Child's Teacher

4 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home

Positive Affirmations are Helping Kids

6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Together we are raising an emotionally healthy world.