Social Emotional Learning
Resources for Parents
NBC Parent Toolkit: Social and Emotional Development: Provides tips on supporting children’s social and emotional development at all developmental stages
Parenting Montana: Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services + Montana State University’s Parenting Montana site provides SEL tools that have been requested by parents
Confident Parents, Confident Kids, SEL-focused parent site and blog, featuring strategies parents can use to build social and emotional skills at home
Edutopia: A Parents Resource Guide to Social and Emotional Learning: This list helps parents identify a number of resources including blogs, articles, and videos for parents on fostering social and emotional skills like kindness, gratitude, persistence, and more.
Ashoka Parenting Changemakers: This site offers resources and ideas for acting as a parenting change-maker with a focus on building four skills in family life including empathy, teamwork, new leadership, and change-making. Their facilitated process helps parents problem-solve for themselves and leads families and communities in addressing the issues that are most pressing to them.
Produced through a collaboration of the Consortium for Science-Based Information on Children, Youth, and Families, the site is committed to publishing resources with a solid research base. They have sections on body, mind, emotions, and relationships.
Other Digital Resources: For practical ideas on how to help your child with social skills and other aspects of social emotional learning as well as helpful parenting tips, check out my Pinterest Boards and follow me on Twitter simply by clicking on the links at the top of the page or below:
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