Social and Emotional Learning

Meeting children's social emotional learning (SEL) needs in preschool can enable them to thrive mentally, physically, and academically in kindergarten and well beyond into adulthood. 

Developing social-emotional skills during preschool includes being able to get along and cooperate with others, manage strong feelings, focus attention, and persist at challenging tasks.

Social emotional skills developed during the preschool years are important because they are critical for long-term school and life success. Early development of these skills is reached to have a number of positive adult outcomes, including: good physical and mental health, interpersonal relationships, education, employment, and more.

In conclusion, preschool SEL programming has the potential to reduce the school readiness gap and help children become healthy, thriving adults.

Raising Rocket Scientists

"I consider myself a hero. I don't have a cape, I don't have a golden lasso. I had a call to adventure, a call to live life bigger than myself. I found the elixir." ~ Viola Davis

Here is the curated list for that girl in your life that you were looking for. It's never too early to start empowering girls to be leaders and creators, have you considered creating a Parent Book Club to help foster community building? Community encouragement goes a long way in supporting our children in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). 

Read the full article in Huff Post on gift ideas for raising a rocket scientist (gifts aren't just for holidays): Want Tp Raise A Rocket Scientist?

To our children's futures!