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The School Case for Emotional Intelligence
Why is emotional intelligence important for children, families, and educators? A Case for Emotional Intelligence in Our Schools ia a free eBook summarizing research on emotional intelligence improving learning, behavior, relationships, health, and wellbeing. This is for certified only; but anywhere can download the eBook from this page: https://www.6seconds.org/case/school-case-ebook/
Posted October 15, 2018 by in Education
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Reflecting on Bad Parenting Moments
Jay Grant shares a story about a time he got really angry with his kids – and the lessons he learned reflecting on it that he hopes will help him be more measured in the future. A healthy look at self-compassion and recognizing patterns.
Posted September 3, 2018 by in Family , Life
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How to Create More Positive Family Interactions
Michele Royan and Josh Freedman talk about the challenge of recognizing the patterns we fall into as parents, like a morning routine that consistently causes stress for everyone. And also the amazing opportunity we have as parents to make a choice to examine and change those patterns.
Posted August 27, 2018 by in Family
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How Perfectionism Is an Obstacle to Perseverance
Jay Grant talks about the challenge of teaching kids perseverance, the role perfectionism plays in shaping kids’ worldview, and how he’s working to overcome it.
Posted August 20, 2018 by in Life
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A Little Inspiration for Parents
Parenting is difficult. This short video from a group of parents is inspirational because of its perspective on parenting, life and learning.
Posted August 12, 2018 by in Family
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Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Posted August 6, 2018 by in Education
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How Can We Help Kids Feel Motivated?
CEO Josh Freedman sits down with Ramona and John Miranda to talk about extrinsic motivators, feedback styles and levels of autonomy – and how they all relate to each other and to kids developing a healthy sense of intrinsic motivation.
Posted July 30, 2018 by in Family
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How to Keep Learning as Parents
To do our best job as parents, we need to admit that we do not have all the answers and embrace the opportunity to keep learning. Eldon Pascoe shares two tips he’s learned to keep growing as a parent.
Posted July 23, 2018 by in Family
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How to Escape Education’s Pitfalls
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to escape these pitfalls of education.
Posted July 23, 2018 by in Education
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How to Create a Good Family Meeting
Barbara Fatum and Josh Freedman discuss how to set the stage for a successful family meeting. The trick is giving kids power – not total control – but power so that they truly feel part of the process.
Posted July 15, 2018 by in Education
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How to Become an Ally for Children
Barbara Fatum and Josh Freedman talk about the challenge for parents of walking side-by-side with their children, as opposed to in front of them. An amazing conversation about parenting, power, autonomy, and self-awareness.
Posted July 9, 2018 by in Family
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Praising Kids’ Abstract Paintings
Josh Freedman and Jay Grant have a short, lively conversation about how we normally talk to kids and nuanced ways to improve the feedback we give to praise efforts more than outcomes.
Posted July 1, 2018 by in Family
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