The Friendship Connection: Helping kids fit in
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Studies show as many as 15 to 20 percent of kindergarten students are socially rejected or ostracized by peers. With many students learning remotely during the pandemic, parents are worried that kids who were already having peer difficulties could backslide.
Dawna Miller has lots of mom experience. She’s an adoptive parent of eight. Still, when her son Braiden started school, she had no idea he was miserable.
“Then the parent-teacher conference a few months in, they’re like, he cries every day,” Dawna shared.
Braiden was anxious and struggling socially at a time that experts say is critical for development.
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Teaching Feelings in Preschool Can Ease Teen Problems
A preschool enrichment program that helps boost social and emotional skills pays off during middle and high school, according to a new study.
Researchers find that students attending Head Start preschools that implemented the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers, and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.
A preschool enrichment program that helps boost social and emotional skills pays off during middle and high school, according to a new study.
Researchers find that students attending Head Start preschools that implemented the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers, and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.
Karen Bierman, a psychology professor at Penn State, says she was encouraged that the students were still showing benefits from the program years later.
“The program had an effect on internal benefits, including better emotion management and emotional well-being, as well as external benefits, such as reduced conduct problems,” Bierman says. “So not only did the program result in fewer distressed adolescents, but it also resulted in less distress for their teachers and peers, as well. It’s an important finding to know we
Preschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later
Students attending the REDI program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.
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Preschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later
Katie Bohn
December 10, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A preschool enrichment program developed at Penn State helps boost social and emotional skills that still have positive effects years later during middle and high school, according to a new study.
The researchers found that students attending Head Start preschools that implemented the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers, and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.