{"id":140,"date":"2008-10-19T16:44:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-01-18T05:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T10:19:18","slug":"basic-emotional-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/basic-emotional-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Emotional Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Forget SATs: lesson one is a basic emotional education<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; headline above Mark Johnson&#8217;s October 15 Op\/Ed in The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too many children live with a dysfunctionality that goes back generations&#8230;\u00a0 At school, these children aren&#8217;t mentally or emotionally ready for the academic learning designed for others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of people with missing emotional development is becoming a threat to our society. But it&#8217;s not too late to tackle this massive task. There is good work going on &#8211; now we need to get it into the mainstream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to recognise school is not just for academic achievement but for personal and <em>emotional development<\/em>&#8230; We should bring in the professionals &#8211; the psychologists, therapists, counselors&#8230; They should teach children how to nurture themselves and each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a child is angry because his mum didn&#8217;t give him breakfast, he needs to be able to say that in a closed, supportive peer group with a skilled facilitator. He needs to cope with his emotions honestly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The explosion of violence in our youth does not have its roots in boredom or lack of discipline. It has its roots in emotional problems. It has&#8230; everything to do with a new definition of what schools should be doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <a title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2008\/oct\/15\/children-young-people-emotional-health\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2008\/oct\/15\/children-young-people-emotional-health\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3nkhsq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forget SATs: lesson one is a basic emotional education&#8221; &#8211; headline above Mark Johnson&#8217;s October 15 Op\/Ed in The Guardian. &#8220;Too many children live with a dysfunctionality that goes back generations&#8230;\u00a0 At school, these children aren&#8217;t mentally or emotionally ready for the academic learning designed for others.&#8221; &#8220;The number of people with missing emotional development\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/basic-emotional-education\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[6,131,49,48,35],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-professionals","tag-children","tag-education","tag-emotional-development","tag-emotional-education","tag-emotions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}