AI and Young Children: One Question Every Adult Should Be Asking
It is bedtime, and a four-year-old who is not ready to be alone yet has stopped asking the speaker on her nightstand why the moon follows the car. Her voice has changed. She is asking it whether monsters are real, and then nervously asks if it can shoo away the monster who’s hiding under her […]
Emotional Intelligence for Early Childhood Educators-Dr. Housman in Exchange Magazine
Before you can help children deal with their stress, you also must learn how to cope with stress yourself and the feelings that accompany it.”
Education Post: Expert Q&A: Focusing on Teacher Well-Being Benefits Students
Recently Dr. Housman sat down with Education Post’s Maureen Kelleher to discuss how attending to teachers’ emotional well-being not only benefits teachers but is also critical for their students. They also spoke about the many big emotions this back to school year will bring and how to help both teachers and students deal with those […]
Communication Through Emotion
Children communicate through expressions of emotion, which is our first language universally. Knowing one’s own and others’ emotions, as well as regulating them, is what is known as emotional competence or, in common parlance, emotional intelligence. Caregivers and early childhood educators are crucial in promoting the growth of these skills.