Improve Your Kids Social and Emotional Skills in 15 Minutes a Day

I was compensated for my time and provided with a copy of this curriculum for review purposes, but all opinions expressed are my own.

These days anxiety and depression is on the rise at all age levels. We shouldn't be surprised given the current events, but what can we as parents do? How can we help our own kids to have good mental health? Well, we can engage our kids in social and emotional learning, so they will have self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, social awareness, and relationship skills.

These 5 areas also happen to be the guidelines of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Success (CASEL) which is the nation's leading organization advancing the development of academic, social and emotional competence for all students.

Sounds great but a bit complicated. Luckily, HeyKiddo Huddle is available to support us!

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is critical for mental health and success in life. HeyKiddo is an easy way to to increase SEL with your kids.

What is HeyKiddo Huddle?

HeyKiddo Huddle is a one year, comprehensive, social-emotional curriculum that guides you through each of these topics with your kids.

Each week, you receive an email with a little background information and a link to the weeks social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum. You can also head directly to the site to find the curriculum if your emails tend to get a bit out of control. Five discussion questions to cover with your kids are provided each week. There is also a short video with information for the parent and an optional creative activity to further engage your kids with the topic.

Since you get five discussion questions a week, you only need to cover one a day and there is zero prep work. It literally takes 15 minutes to add HeyKiddo to your day! Just 15 minutes to help your kids build skills like self-awareness, mindfulness, positive mindset, empathy, critical thinking, resilience, and more.

Who Can Use HeyKiddo Huddle?

HeyKiddo is intended for ages 5-12 years old, but knowing that all kids develop on a different timeline, tips are provided to aid in making the curriculum work for a variety of levels. This is a huge advantage when you are working with kids that are dealing with things like ADHD or the asynchronous development that so often accompanies gifted kids.

So often kids with some learning disability need extra support in social and emotional learning arena even if they may be a bit out of the age range. HeyKiddo is a great way to help you relate to these kids on a daily basis.

One thing I found that helped my older kids who were not interested in discussions involving their younger siblings was to provide them with a notebook to answer the daily question. This allowed me to cover the question at the same time with all the kids, but discuss later with the older girls.

Through HeyKiddo's Step-by-Step Method of SEL, student's social-emotional knowledge builds through each of the topics (self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, social awareness, and relationship skills) one at a time spending a few weeks on each to increase kid's mental health.

Along with the curriculum, HeyKiddo also has a section of resource videos to help parents navigate a variety situations from healthy friendships to disappointment to dealing with the pandemic.

Plus by engaging in SEL with your children, your family relationships will be healthier too.

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The Future of HeyKiddo

HeyKiddo will also be adding an app in the future! This will be a complete social and emotional coaching subscription for busy parents on the go. You will receive expert insights and guidance delivered as convenient texts; such as:

Valuable insights to help kids develop positive habits
Live tracking of your kid’s critical life skills
Support for talking about challenging life events

Join the waitlist for the HeyKiddo Talk App here: https://hey-kiddo.com/parenttalkapp/ (HeyKiddo was funded by the National Science Foundation to take their HeyKiddo™ Talk coaching subscription to the next level. They are developing a smart app to help parents gain better control over their children’s mental, social and emotional health. Sign up for their waitlist to get early access, updates and participate in research!)