11. Social/Emotional Skills and Strategies for Launching your Older Teen
Tess Connolly talks to Cara Tyrrell, M.ed.Parent Educator and Owner of Core 4 Parenting about Social and Emotional Skills and Launching an Older Teen
- What she noticed in the early childhood classroom as a teacher and the foundational skills that were missing.
- What social emotional skills are, and her idea of the emotional skills coming before the social skills.
- Keeping in mind the “who” before the “what” with social and emotional learning
- Launching an older teen and the importance of having them learn and practice adult skills
- What is a Gap Year and how to help your older teen do it responsibly and compassionately.
- Importance of having an older teen practice real world skills like money management and personal growth development
- How to have your older teen “practice” the adult skills while still under the family roof
- Fostering core values of mutual trust, respect and open communication.
- What Cara did when her children were born, writing a PMS (Parenting Mission Statement) and setting her own parenting GPS
- Cara is grateful for her own children were there to find what they need to be their best selves.
You can find out more about Cara Tyrrell at:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Core4Parenting
IG: .https://www.instagram.com/core4parenting/
LInked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cara-tyrrell/
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