1.Boys & their feels, then & now 2. Good grade school risks & fails 3. The 4 Corners of Feelings (beta)
It’s our 50th issue of We Build Better Humans. *ignite glitter bomb here!* In celebration, we’re offering this DOUBLE ISSUE with one current resource & one featured past resource for every segment.
BONUS: Tell us how we’re doing! Comment, email Coach Kiki or correspond in Notes to share your favorite articles, issues or tools——& also let us know what you WANT MORE OF in the future. If you’re giving a shout-out in the Substack platform, tag @
.In our first issue on August 2nd of 2022, all 2 subscribers (one of whom was me) received a link to that summer’s fave find: an invitation to men & boys from HappyMe to openly share their experiences with journaling. 49 issues, 290+ posts, one work-version sister newsletter & a collective 1k subscribers later, we’re circling back to boys’ needs.
Read this great, helpful post from clinical psychologist & teen-boy-mom Lee Bare, Ph.D. on how to get your teen son to talk to you when something is wrong. (I’m bookmarking it for those teen parenting years that are just around the corner.)
Planning to fail by taking good risks??
I had doubled my subscriber base to 4 by the end of the month & my 4th weekly issue. 😅 Creating content that I loved was exciting, though——especially alongside fellow writers & featured content providers Jane R. Shore (of the School of Thought newsletter) & Nick Woolf (of the CASEL-affiliated SEL in 5). BTW, the title links here go directly to articles of theirs I have featured in past issues; you can click around at their Substack sites to read even more thought-provoking & action-inspiring posts.
Their shares continue to grace my inbox today … along with this post from BabyCenter on building self-esteem in grade-schoolers. Jump to the back end of the article for important points on healthy risks & framing failures.
Keep on feeling & healing …
One August later to the year of launch, We Build Better Humans went to over 700 inboxes with even more fall school-year insights in our 43rd issue, The 3 Rs of SEL. In the year & a half that we’ve been interacting with you as readers, here’s what we’ve come to know:
Even parents & SEL expert educators don’t always know what to do with our feelings.
I’m launching an online course bundle this year called The Four Corners of Feelings. It’s meant to give us balance in an unsteady world; to help us feel & heal … because, after all, we are humans with very human feelings. And we can’t manage them until we know why we have them & what it is exactly that we’re meant to learn from them. Send me a message to get on the short waitlist for ground floor discounts & first look info. You can #feelandheal.