Inside: Use this Friendship Recipe for Social Emotional Learning Writing to help kids focus on what is a good friend and what they’re looking for in a friend. There are a million ways to be a good friend, but when you’re a kid, you often pick someone who is playing right next to you. But […]
How to Stay Calm as a Parent When You’re Triggered
Inside: Use these 8 strategies to help you stay calm as a parent when you’re triggered by your kids’ behavior. If you want to yell less and stay calm more, this will help. Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about. Big girls don’t cry. Act your age. Pull it together. Put on […]
Social Emotional Learning 180 Daily Questions for Classrooms
Inside: Use these Social Emotional Learning 180 Daily Questions to start conversations about kindness, empathy, compassion, and being a good friend. When I taught third grade, we were focused on multiplication, cursive, the solar system, Native American and Indigenous studies, and of course reading and math. But one day, someone passing by our class dropped […]
Kindness Games Resources to Teach Social Emotional Learning Skills
Inside: Use these 19 kindness games resources to teach social emotional learning skills in fun, hands on ways that sneak in learning. When my kids were little they were obsessed with Mary Poppins. And she taught us, “in every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and […]
Ice Cream Activities and Kindness Resources to Teach SEL
Inside: Use these ice cream activities and kindness resources to teach social emotional learning and encourage more kindness to others. Ice cream is a staple in our house year round, but especially during the warm summer months. There’s nothing that screams summer more than hearing the ice cream truck music from a few blocks away […]