Is there something missing in what we are teaching our children?
Based on the growing concerns that many parents and teachers have regarding children’s development, perhaps we need to ask ourselves this question!
Many of our schools are full of children who want to blame, tease and put other kids down. They continuously engage in power struggles and win-lose games. We still see the bullies and the victims.
We also see children who are sad, depressed and those who are ostracized by others.
Teaching children Social and Emotional Intelligence skills can help to address these issues.
If a child is in charge of their own emotional energy and response to others and learns how to take others people’s feelings into consideration, this will help to them be more emotionally healthy and generally have a greater sense of self-worth.
Exciting New Kid’s programs to support the development of Healthy Social and Emotional Intelligence Skills
We offer a program that can be used by teachers, child care workers, counsellors or other professionals working with children.
We would like to share a very interesting review from Barbara, a Yoga teacher in Canada who joined our E-course Training for Group Leaders and has been running our Kid’s program.
Barbara has been offering this innovative, program to 3 different groups of children over the last 5 weeks.
- This program is designed to support and help children to develop healthy social and emotional skills.
- It uses breathing and body awareness techniques to help children to centre and manage their own energy.
- It also encourages children to develop healthy social interactions and more effective ways of relating to others.
- Games and creative, fun activities such as art and drama form a large part of the course content
I sent Barbara some questions and here are her answers along with some other comments:
Q. Barbara why were you drawn to the Rainbow Planet E-course Training Program?
A. I have been interested in Social/Emotional Intelligence for many years. It was several years ago, now, when I first came across your website and subscribed to your newsletter. What you are doing and offering sounded so in tune to what I feel children need. I was not in a position to travel to any of the countries where you were offering the workshops so I ‘jumped’ at the possibility of doing an E-course. Thus far, I have not been disappointed.
Q. How are the parent’s responding to what you are offering the children in this program?
A. I hoped to attract 5 children with whom to do the assignments and was overwhelmed by the response. I now have 3 groups with a total of 20 children. PARENTS WANT THIS FOR THEIR CHILDREN. I have been asked if I will continue to offer the classes after this series end. I continue to get calls from parents who have heard through others about this program. Just tonight a parent came early to tell me how her son is using the information at home and at school. Yesterday he encountered a child who was in his personal space. He attempted to handle the situation but he was sent to the back of the room by the teacher so he would not have to encounter the behaviour that was bothering him. Today the same thing happened again and he stopped, assessed the situation and using a confident voice asked the child to stop the action that was irritating him. She did! The parent spent some while giving further examples of how the programme is working and how she too is learning to use the exercises for her own betterment. She also said her son is loving the classes. Truthfully, I have had numerous positive responses and much encouragement from most of the parents.
