Emotional education

Proposing an educational task force to implement curriculum; coaching emotional intelligence, civility, and coping skills in grades k-12.

Television content and absent parenting have precipitated a new culture of promoted distortions in our personal and public narratives.

(Think “my strange addiction” vs “the andy griffith show”)

These distortions in thought have led to an increase in voilence, drug use, disease, depression, entitlement, and many other negative results.

Americans now lack the tools to address misfortune. Ask yourself how the current average american may handle:
Verbal abuse
A spouse leaving or cheating
A child that cries
Employment termination
A slight in traffic
Parental rejection

Many stimli can turn an uneducated american towards drugs, anger, violence, stress, or anxiety.

Having this course would empower our next generations to gain strength, focus, and ability. Ultimately, quickly, it will reduce crime, healthcare costs, division, divorce, disease (including anxiety and depression) and many other areas.

Healthy thoughts would lead to heathy actions, and role models have been fewer and fewer.

If the reader takes time to reflect or reseach this idea, it will become clear how disease, crime, personal suffering, abuse and many other areas would be significantly reduced.

To me this is the cheapest, most effective, and heathiest solution to most of todays issues.

Provide our children the missing tools to cope with life’s inevitable challenges.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Book Summary by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves.

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This is a needed area. Social emotional learning should be our number one priority for every child. Mindfulness and teaching emotional intelligence is a great idea however research shows us that parent-child relationships are how social-emotional health is built. We have to start in the family to truly see a difference in this area.

Thank you for your attention to this topic!

I agree parental modeling will be where emotional intelligence will be internalized, and set as a core value in tomorrow’s generation.

Unfortunately, the parents of todays children were not given these tools, and cannot teach what they have not learned.

Raising awareness is the current path, effective but inefficient.

A course; maybe as a chapter of social studies, taught yearly, is what I’m recommending.

Emdr, yoga, meditation , tai chi, chi gong, should be offered so kids are equipped with the knowledge n can have it at their disposal.