This guidebook provides a collaboration of academic, social and emotional learning ideas to use at home. Check out page 6 for ten things you can do at home to support social emotional learning and a comprehensive book resource list for parents on page 9. This resource also discusses how parents are active role models of how children express their emotions. It is important that we take time for ourselves as parents and do something we enjoy so that we are able to better assist when our children have big emotions. In young children, the best thing you can do is to name the emotion they are feeling if they don’t have the vocabulary.

For example, “You seem very angry and upset that we had to leave the park.” Read more here: https://www.casel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/schools-families-and-social-and-emotional-learning.pdf