Smart Brain Wise Heart™ e-Learning Program for Boys & Girls Clubs We are excited to introduce our new social and emotional Smart Brain Wise Heart™ e-Learning Program for Boys & Girls Clubs, ages 8- to 12-year-olds. The primary goal of this program is to have participating youth learn self-regulation skills and improve their focus, motivation …
One in every 88 children in the United States has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to a study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Although today’s methods of diagnosis and diagnoses at earlier ages are responsible in part for an increase in the rate, health officials say the numbers …
“Emotional development in children is crucial and yet severely disregarded,” says a well-known author, consultant and speaker who was greatly impressed by a new family board game from HeartMath. “I was really blown away by the Wild Ride to the Heart,” Dr. Jim Taylor recently told the HeartMath Institute. Taylor is recognized worldwide for his work in …
This story begins, appropriately with Story, a Hannoverian (a German horse named after the Hannover region in Germany) on which a young Canadian equestrian with big dreams was honing her dressage skills in the summer of 2006. Monica Houweling was 13 years old that summer in British Columbia, when she was introduced to Dirk Stroda's …