Emotional Regulation Education in school curriculum

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In our Society, we do not talk or teach about emotion on a fundamental level.

We should implement the education of emotional regulation and emotional understanding from kindergarten all the way through college As a standard required class for all students to understand their body more fully.
This would also include the basics of anatomy in emotional regulation and how your body processes emotion physically because emotions are a physical experience, understanding how the brain and the endocrine system work together to produce an emotional experience, how the vagus nerve can be regulated and co-opted into creating a more balanced human experience. Both for the over expressive and the under expressive. Both for the avoidant and the anxious.

This would start with basic understanding of self regulation and education. Knowing what is happening when we experience negative emotion will transform our world. It will give us access to our bodies in a way that we still struggle to this day as a majority.

When one generation understands what it means to come back into harmony from a trauma or a dis regulated state we will transmute humanity in a frequency level. Our ability to create will increase exponentially because our ability to relate to one another will increase and bring us together instead of push us apart.

As a nation we have the greatest opportunity to lead the world in this manner. America is a melting pot of all cultures, perspectives and emotional ranges. With this single implementation we will evolve so rapidly as a species.

Want to end wars? Emotional regulation
Want to create new tech? Emotional understanding
Want to coexist more easily? Emotional regulation
Want people to live their lives more fully and stop surviving? Emotional Education

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This proposal follows the same mindset of other problematic curriculum. I cannot support asking teachers to teach emotional regulation over math, science, history, etc where we are continuously seeing failure. The solution isn’t to continue to tax the school system to correlate social lacking.

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No where in this am I saying to tax the system. If you teach this properly it will make learning all of those subjects a lot easier for children to absorb and if teachers were better skilled at this(I knew a lot that were terrible with this) then the approach would change significantly. This is not a tax and would not be taught over other subjects. I would argue that this is more important than any of those other subjects as well.

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Maybe the counselor’s job could be to help teach that emotional regulation, if its too much for the teachers or they can create a new class just for the socialization/emotional regulation topic. Emotional regulation and understanding this is so important. So is understanding that life is full of disappointments and not knowing how to deal with life. And this generation is getting behind the socialization because of too much screen time. This generation is also disrespectful, not respect authority, and they also freak out and want to do unproductive things such as throwing tantrums and rioting. Too many kids are committing suicide because they don’t know how to deal with their emotions. I know a few boys who have killed themselves over girls.

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