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6 Ways to Give Kids a Stress Advantage
Stress has a story shaped by science, news and popular culture. Here’s the narrative in a nutshell: stress is bad, very bad; we should do everything in our power to live stress-free lives. Unfortunately, the underlying story of stress is skewed. In fact, there is another body of…
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Fighting Your Bully with a Good Ha Ha Ha!!!
Phil waited for his friend, Daz, or actually hid out so that he could execute his trademark “crusher” move… until Dazzling Daz pleaded for mercy. That was Daz’s pro wrestling name when he and Phil The Crusher would watch WWE Smackdown, then pretend they were pro wrestlers. The…
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Expert Interview: The Slow Schools Movement
Join Chief Storyteller, Renee Jain, chatting with Transformational Coach, Elena Aguilar, about the “Slow Schools” movement. Elena says,”A Slow Schools Movement would offer a parallel paradigm shift — an approach where we’d intentionally, mindfully work on one project at a time,…
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3 Ways to Praise Kids without saying “Good Job” (Video)
As a follow up to our latest post on praise, Renee Jain, talks about research-based alternatives to saying “good job” to your kids. If you’re a good-job junkie, you’ll want to check out this video!
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Expert Interview: Teaching Empathy in the Classroom
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats A little bit about our expert: Joe Hirsch has taught lower and middle school students at Akiba Academy of Dallas since 2006. He developed curricula for and facilitated Yeshiva University’s…
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Stop Saying, ‘You’re So Smart!’ 3 Better Ways to Praise Kids
“You’re so smart!” “You’re so creative!” “You’re so… [insert convenient, but possibly damaging description here]” The other day during a frantic scramble to get my 1-year-old to music class, I watched her perform her latest trick — slipping into her little gym shoes and…
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When Faced with a Bully, Yoon-hee Taps into her Strengths
Thwack! Yoon-hee put a hand up to her neck and felt something wet and sticky. She peeled it off. A spit ball. Yoon-hee felt her face flush as she lowered her body in her chair. She didn’t even have to turn around to know whose spit ball it was. Yoon-hee could hear them…
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How Can We Prevent Bullying?
Seventh-grader Gabrielle Molina was found hanging by a belt in her parents’ house after mercilessly, repeatedly, being called a slut. Thirteen-year-old Asher Brown shot himself in the head after his bullies acted out homosexual acts to taunt him in gym class. Rebecca Ann…
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Every One of Us Has a Superpower – What’s Yours?
Contributed by a GoStrengths Community Member… When I was little, my parents used to read me a story called “Fenton and the Magic Bag.” The story was about a frog named Fenton who is an incredibly fearful little guy. He will not go anywhere without his bag, which is filled to…
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“Cool” is in the Eye of the Beholder
Marisa wiped the sweat off her brow and jogged over to join the rest of her teammates in a group huddle. Their team captain, Allison, was speaking in a loud whisper, calling out different plays and trying to motivate her crew. The Fliderdale Hyenas were down 3-0 at the first…