What is their Mental Health Skills Building Status? Teen girls’ mental health Importantly, whenever I see news or articles about the decline of mental health or the increase in mental health issues, I always want to ask, “but how are their mental health skills building? Do they have the skills needed to strengthen their social …
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Managing Fear with Mindfulness is Not Just Sitting and Meditating
Managing Fear with Mindfullness With a Mental Health Skill Building Toy I’m trying to get a toy that helps with managing fear with mindfulness licensed. The toy, or plush – a small stuffed doll – helps kids strengthen mindfulness, a social and emotional skill kids and adults need to be healthy. Don’t Let Your Fear …
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A New Year And A New Social and Emotional Skill Building Bundle
A New Social Emotional Learning Bundle My Christmas gift to you – a bundle of goal setting and planning resources (20% off)–perfect for helping students get a fresh start in the new year while boosting their mental health and social and emotional skill building! Three Resources In One This social and emotional skill building bundle …
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Give the Gift of Mental Health
Handmade Gifts and Cards I have always liked making Christmas gifts. Not only that, I have made my own Christmas cards to send to family and friends almost every year for over the past 40 years! When I worked as a mental health educator, I would use my handmade cards to give to staff at …
Lift up Your Spirits this Thanksgiving!
During the Thanksgiving holiday season, there’s talk, of course, about giving thanks and gratitude. But this aws Studios freebie gives you the opportunity to “gift” the people in your life “permission” to do things they want but often feel like they shouldn’t or don’t deserve to do, a mental health, social and emotional best practice. …
Conquer Student Anxiety
Transform Student Feelings of Overwhelm to Confidence Do you find your students feeling overwhelmed? Students want to do a lot. Furthermore, they deal with expectations from their relationships with family, school and friends. It can feel like it’s all too much. And, giving up might be right around the corner. Roles and Goals™, a social …
Final Episode™: Resolving Conflicts Through Communication, an Engaging Learning Experience for High School Students
Bored, Uninterested Teenagers Become Engaged, Empowered, Knowledgeable, and Skilled The first thing that sparked my bored, mistrusting high school class during “Final Episode™: Resolving Conflicts Through Communication” was showing them a segment from a popular family drama TV series. Heads popped up and eyes engaged with the screen as if to say, “Cool. Are we …
Prepare Students to Work in Groups with this Fun Classroom Management Activity
Hate Working in Groups? A student I know hated working in groups. It made them feel uncomfortable and worthless. One group member always took charge, boss others around and no one challenged the domineering leader. The groups usually got the project done but not without a lot of stress to their mental health with bad …
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Mental, Emotional, and Social Health with Toys? Yes, with MESH!
MESH + Toy Industry + aws Studios While perusing an issue of “The Toy Book,” a toy industry trade magazine, I came across a mention by Editor in Chief James Zahn in his editorial about “MESH,” a new acronym for “mental, emotional, and social health.” For me, this was a ‘needle in the haystack’ discovery. …
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Master Your Mountain™ — Empower Student Success and Get Student Engagement with Goal Setting
I Want to be a Doctor but I Don’t Think That Will Ever Happen! One day, I asked two of my students who were buddies what they wanted to do when they were older. “Doctors — pediatricians,” they excitedly responded. They wanted to help little kids. But immediately after, they said they didn’t think it …