| By: Melissa Benaroya New Year, ReNEWed Focus on Social-Emotional Learning at Home The new year is the perfect time to set some goals for enhancing your child's social-emotional learning skills. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Holiday Stress Buster Can social-emotional learning help combat holiday stress? Absolutely! Check out Melissa Benaroya's blog all about it. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Teaching Empathy, Respect, and Compassion over the Holidays CFC blogger Melissa Benaroya has put together a great list of SEL-focused ideas to get families started with volunteering and giving opportunities this holiday season. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude Is giving thanks something we can do on a daily basis with and around our children? Absolutely! CFC's parenting blogger Melissa Benaroya walks us through just how to do it. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Safeguarding Kids from Cyber Bullying What can parents do to protect their children from cyberbullying? Read Melissa Benaroya's blog to find out. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Cultivating Character Can character traits be cultivated through social-emotional learning? Melissa Benaroya walks us through specific ways to support and nurture the character traits you may want to see in your children. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Three Strategies for Managing Back-to-School Stressors Making the transition into back-to-school mode can be stressful for both parents and kids. Committee for Children blogger and Grow Parenting Family coach Melissa Benaroya shares her strategies for easing the angst. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya Teachable Moments: The 2016 Presidential Election The election process presents parents with a plethora of unique opportunities to teach core social-emotional learning (SEL) skills, such as empathy, emotion management, and social problem-solving while addressing topics such as accepting differences, dealing with gossip, bullying, and name-calling. Blogger Melissa Benaroya discusses. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya How to Support Your Child When Tragedy Strikes It's imperative that parents be prepared and informed on how to respond when children witness or experience human tragedies or national disasters. Blogger Melissa Benaroya walks us through how to use social emotional learning to help in these situations. Read More
| By: Melissa Benaroya The Power of the Dad-Daughter Dynamic Conversations about the critical role of fathers usually centers around sons, but just in time for Father’s Day, blogger Melissa Benaroya explores dads and the impact they have on their daughters. Read More