Sesame Workshop often takes this full spectrum approach to thinking about skills building and also thinking about kids' emotional health. One of the things we've talked about in our curriculum development is ways to teach kids that negative emotions are normative, right? And sometimes your emotional weather is kind of like where it is where I grew up in the northeast, where it's snowy, you're rainy, and it doesn't have to be like that all the time,. It will change, but it's normal. Like, this is just the kind of thing that tends to be normal.
Not matter if you're aged three or 103, you can learn to be happier using pretty much the same strategies. Sesame Workshop and its furry friends have been teaching "emotional ABCs" alongside literacy and numeracy for decades. So in collaboration with The Happiness Lab, Elmo and his friends will be helping us present fun and accessible happiness hacks for listeners of all ages.
To kick things off, Dr Laurie Santos sat down to discuss why it's never too early to learn about wellbeing with Sesame Workshop's CEO, Steve Youngwood; the Chief Production and Creative Development Officer, Kay Wilson Stallings… and everyone’s favorite furry, red monster, Elmo.
(Sesame Workshop is a non-profit organization with a mission to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. The work they do is funded by donations big and small - so if you want to become a part of their important mission to improve children’s emotional well-being, then visit: sesameworkshop.org/support-us/)
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