Supporting Children Through Life’s Inevitable Stressors
Anxiety is a growing issue facing American adolescents today. Benoit Denizet-Lewis, writer for the New York Times Magazine, recently published an article illuminating the pressures facing our youth, depicting gripping personal accounts of anxiety. What was not illuminated is just how young children are being affected. The reality is that children as young as preschoolers […]
Emotional Intelligence Curricula in Massachusetts Schools: Great, But Too Late?
Constructing a foundation of emotional success is now widely understood to provide the building blocks toward academic and life-long success. Nine school districts in Massachusetts, in apparent recognition of the outcomes that such instruction can bring, recently collaborated to implement emotional intelligence curricula for their students. While our state should be commended for being cognizant […]
Teaching the Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence
The launch of the Housman Institute comes amid growing awareness of the importance of teaching the building blocks of emotional intelligence from birth. Supported through our ongoing research and teacher training, our flagship program begin to ECSEL promotes the growth in early childhood of critical developmental constructs, namely emotional competence, self-regulation, and associated pro-social skills […]