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How To Make A DIY Calming Corner
by Alex Petrou
After a failed DIY Pinterest-inspired Calming Corner, this mama turned to Generation Mindful's Time-In-Toolkit to save her time, money, and sanity while creating a space for her tantruming three-year-old to explore her feelings.
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Social-Emotional Learning Starts At Home
by Ashley Patek
Students who are self-aware and able to understand their emotions have a greater ability to relate to others, make decisions, and excel academically. Here is how to help your child develop social-emotional skills at home.
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The ABCs and 123s of Emotional Intelligence
by Suzanne Tucker
Today I'm sharing two social-emotional skill-building activities I wish EVERY child and every adult in the world knew.
These two skills make up the ABCs and 123s of emotional intelligence. They are free, simple, easy, and dare I say, even fun to practice.
In the following 18-minute video, I walk you through these skill-building activities for building emotional intelligence in your home or early childhood classroom. This video is for parents and educators, and it can be shared with tweens and teens as well!
Tune in and learn:
What are the three skill sets that lead to higher emotional intelligence in children and adults?
What are two ways children can practice these skills on a daily basis?
How do these practices help us manage things like depression and anxiety with toddlers, teens, and right on into adulthood?
Thank you for learning more about Generation Mindful's mission to raise an emotionally healthy world.
If you believe every child deserves to learn about their emotions, join our 1M+ online community of parents and educators from around the world who are making it safe for kids to feel.
And check out these additional articles:
5 Ways To Nurture Emotional Intelligence For Kids
10 Simple Mindfulness Activities For Kids To Build Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is More Than Naming Emotions
Teach Children How to Regulate Emotions Using A Calming Space
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Celebrating The Birth Of A Mother
by Guest Author
Motherhood seemed to come so easy to everyone around me, yet here I was, barely keeping it together. One mom shares how she was re-born after having children.
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Play Is More Than Just Fun at Philadelphia's Children's Museum
by Ashley Patek
In collaboration with Generation Mindful, Philadelphia's Please Touch Children's Museum takes a bold step forward in creating a world where all children are able to exercise creativity, compassion, confidence, and social-emotional skills as it opens its new exhibit XOXO: The Exhibit About Love And Forgiveness.
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On Peace Tents, Healing the Generations and Motherhood
by Alex Petrou
Every child wants to know, do you see my light even when I’m not shining it?
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6 Meaningful Holiday Gifts For 2021
by Ashley Patek
Rather than storing unnoticed toys in the closet this year, give the children on your list meaningful memories instead. Here are six connection-based gift ideas for ages two and up that we love for the holidays and all year long.
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by Rebecca Eanes
Toddlerhood is a precious time. We do our kids and ourselves a great injustice by assigning negative intent to their developmentally normal behaviors. Instead of going to war, let’s spend these quickly-passing years seeking to understand our little ones and rewrite the narrative on common myths.
