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The Mental and Emotional Tool Kit for Teachers and Parents

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Parenting and teaching can be tough. It's easy to generate more emotion than is helpful and make mistakes, especially with the most troubled and troublesome young people. This book was written by a health education teacher who became certified in cognitive behavioral therapy to better understand and help students, and ended up helping himself in the process. He can help you do all three things.The vast majority of things that go wrong in peoples live happen because they generate more emotion than is necessary or helpful, and more than they know what to do with. This emotion predisposes people of all ages to react to life instead of respond to it in the best possible ways. It predisposes them to behave in all manner of unhealthy, self-defeating ways, often making their own lives, and the lives of others around them worse instead of better. That's true in and outside classrooms, and regardless of whether someone is a student or teacher, a child or a parent All of this can directly or indirectly negatively impact a young person's readiness, willingness and ability to learn, and a teacher's ability to teach him or her.The flipside of all this is that people have to be in the right mental and emotional place to make the best possible behavioral or lifestyle choices; to access and act on helpful advice and information they've been given, to consider consequences before acting, to learn from their own and others experiences, to act in accordance with their own morals and values, to function at levels they are capable of, to problem solve, to resolve conflicts, and to have the satisfying relationships they want.That's why truly effective emotional management is such an important life skill. Yet we do little if anything to teach people this important skill as they go through our schools. We have too many people who enter adulthood deficient in this important ability, and who struggle in many ways their entire lives because of it. Little is done to train up teachers in this i

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