Ten Tasks of Adolescent Development

Adolescence designates the teenage years between 13 and 19, and is typically seen as the…

Honor How You Truly Feel

Three weeks left until the end of school — and I can hardly wait! I feel what seems to be a weird mix of emotions:

• relieved (that we’re almost done),
• happy (about what many of my students have accomplished),

Practice Emotional Hygiene

We all know how to maintain our physical health and how to practice dental hygiene, right? We’ve known it since…

Co-regulation and the Prefrontal Cortex

Sure, this title sounds like a bad Halloween story, but let’s dig into it.

The Emotional Tango: Those are Your Feelings, Not Mine — The dancers in ballroom tango initially move across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style’s…

I Can’t Fix Your Emotions

I’m a paraprofessional working with high-school-age students inside our Juvenile Detention Center. I’ve never been…

Resilience: Strategies to Strengthen Young Children

The Emotional Tango: Those are Your Feelings, Not Mine — The dancers in ballroom tango initially move across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style’s…

Understand that You Don’t Have to Understand

In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Meg Murray feels very much alone. She…

The Emotional Tango: Those are Your Feelings, Not Mine — The dancers in ballroom tango initially move across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style’s…