As a parent there is a need to identify and overcome any disadvantages your children are experiencing. 

One way to be an awesome parent is to be sure your children and those they grow up with are taught the emotional intelligence and life skills they need to ease mental and emotional health issues and gain a range of  winning advantages. They then can manifest happy, healthy. successful lives together despite the challenges of modern life. 

Emotional and social skills, research shows, are crucial difference makers. These are skills that allow children – individually and together – to deal confidently with accelerating disadvantages and with these trauma-causing realities.  

• Aggravated by psychological and emotional damage from Covid confinements affecting 50% of kids, youth suicide, anxiety and depression rates are at record levels not experienced by your generation.

• Dealing with school shootings, survival drills, awful amounts of online bullying and shaming, and ongoing verbal and physical assaults on gay kids. Plus tremendous pressures to succeed.

• Fentanyl and other high levels of substance and alcohol abuse. 

Along with the US Surgeon General and major child psychiatry and school counselor groups, we support the education reform that embraces emotional intelligence learning and a variety of other life skills training,. This includies skills to create strong relationships and communities. It is best known to educators as Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) – a crisis healer and preventative. 

The statistics from PreK to 12 dramatically support SEL’s  remarkable effectiveness in reversing youth disadvantages, pains and conflicts – creating in their place healthy learning environments that spawn highly competent youngsters (see video) and great outcomes academically and in youth wellbeing, mental health and later life success that benefits all of society.