Education News – Julia Steiny
“What equips kids to be successful?…Clearly, depressed, traumatized, even merely upset kids don’t learn well. So you would think that cultivating the conditions for mental, social, and emotional health would best leverage efforts to improve academic health…It’s no favor to send kids with delusions of enormous self-worth into our tough world. What they really need is a reality-based sense of mastery. Teaching a kid persistence is hard, but it can be done and done kindly. Grit, resilience, impulse control, social skills all can be taught. Yes, teaching such disciplines is tons harder than being the kids’ friend and enabler. But that is what will help them gain strong mental health and to succeed.”(more)